Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Road Safety Measure: Traffic Rules ENFORCEMENT
Road Safety Measure: Traffic Rules ENFORCEMENT
By Urvish Shah
Overview
What is road safety measure? What is Enforcement? Why is it necessary? What are the aspects? References
Enforcement
What is an ENFORCEMENT?
Traffic law enforcement is a factor that contributes significantly to normative road user behavior and road safety. Randomly selected sites and times of day for enforcement achieve good results.
Traffic rules are usually enforced by traffic police forces whose activity and success are generally limited by the resources than can be applied and by established priorities.
Continue.
Nevertheless, many studies have shown that increased police enforcement effort would have a major impact on road safety.
Necessity of Enforcement
To reduce fatality. For safe and proper distribution of traffic. Safe and efficient operation of traffic control devices. To reduce offence relating the road and driving.
Other ASPECTS
Speed and alcohol limits, Safety Belt Wearing Obligation, Increasing fines, Automatic traffic controls, Section control, Driving eligibility
References
Papers:
70 Elvik, R., Borger-Mysen, A. and Vaa, T. (1997)Trafikksikkerhekshandbok (Traffic Safety Handbook). Institute of Transport Economics, Oslo, Norway. Elvik, R.; Vaa, T. (2004) The Handbook of Road Safety Measures; Amsterdam 2004.
Websites:
www.google.com
THANK YOU.