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Abstract: 

The use of cameras to track driver speeds and issue tickets to those who violate traffic laws has increased in the decades since they were introduced in the early 1990s. They were touted as lowering the costs of police traffic enforcement, enhancing the regulation of driver behavior, and increasing traffic safety. The use of cameras has also increased revenues from traffic violations, and these trends—the increased reliance on cameras and the increase in revenues generated by otherwise unnoticed infractions—are expected to continue as budget constraints are sending cities searching for more ways to generate revenues. What is less acceptable to most citizens is the way that speed cameras do their job.

Keywords: privatized; red-light-running; yellow light times; speed cameras; rear-end collisions

Affiliations:  1: managing editor of IDU.