TRAFFIC CAMERAS

Traffic cameras in Urban/Metropolitan area

Abstract

Surveillance, the systematic collection of information for purposes of control, is a key mode of social and spatial urban ordering. From their foundation, cities have been locations for surveillance, but it was only with the modern period that surveillance came to infiltrate many practices of urban management from factories to policing. Now, in cities dominated by neoliberal economics, risk management, and multiple fears, increasingly technologically sophisticated surveillance, from biometric closed circuit television (CCTV) to geo-demographic profiling, produces new forms of urban division. This paper examines the constituents of surveillance for traffic management in urban cities. Traffic cameras installation on highways and urban city roads has provided significant advantages for improving the safety and traffic management standards.

Table of Contents

Introduction4

Surveillance through traffic camera5

General Principles for Traffic Camera Surveillance5

History of Urban Traffic Camera Surveillance6

Contemporary Urban Area Surveillance7

Highway Safety9

Crash Losses Are Predictable and Preventable10

Addressing Crashes Worldwide11

Identifying Crash Mitigation Strategies12

Implementing Crash Mitigation Strategies12

Human Factors and Traffic Policy and Enforcement Implementation13

Infrastructure and Roadway Improvement Implementation14

Selecting System wide Infrastructure Improvement Policies15

Implementing System wide Infrastructure Improvement Policies16

Traffic Statistics 201017

Traffic Surveillance Regulations19

Need of Traffic Cameras20

Pros and Cons of Traffic Monitoring Camera System22

Cost analysis25

Technology comparison26

Image Scanning26

Resolution27

Wiring27

Analytical27

Integration27

Security28

Investment Analysis28

Component costs28

Wiring costs29

Network and storage systems29

Size Matters29

Intangible costs29

Analysis of Statistics and Crime Prevention Data30

Program Features31

Community Consultation, Debate, and Support31

Conclusion32

Traffic cameras in Urban/Metropolitan area

Introduction

Surveillance may be considered as the systematic collection, classification, and sorting of information about subject populations for the purposes of behavioral adjustment or control. It is essential to differentiate surveillance from simpler activities of information gathering or watching. Surveillance requires the gathering of information of some kind, from the directly sensory to the indirect or technologically mediated; however, the gathering of information must be conducted systematically. Surveillance of traffic through high sensor and speed monitoring cameras helps in addressing the traffic management issues. Traffic cameras installation helped in reducing the crime, improved public safety, increased the transport management efficiency, and enabled the Department of Transportation to effectively tackle the traffic related problems.

Main objective of traffic cameras, installed in urban cities, is to increase the coordination in the department of transportation activities to enable smooth flow of traffic in highly congested areas. Traffic camera installation also enabled securing the commuting paths by continual monitoring. Accidental or contingent acquisition of information is not surveillance; however, many activities in which surveillance is involved may involve the combination of contingently acquired and systematically acquired data. Traffic camera installation also directed at altering the behavior of people in some way; various forms of systematic information gathering have purposes that are not related to surveillance.

Surveillance through traffic camera

Surveillance through traffic camera may also be differentiated according to the object of surveillance, and in particular between targeted and mass surveillance. Targeted surveillance of traffic specifies the object of surveillance in advance and concentrates only on that object. Whereas mass traffic surveillance provides an overview without specifying any object in advance. In practice, these forms are a spectrum and often interconnected. For example, an open-street video surveillance system may be used for the mass ...