The Delaware Legislature authorized (SB 200, 2021) the Delaware DOT to enter into an agreement with an existing vendor to install mobile speed control devices in the I-95 work zone in the Wilmington area to reduce speeding and accidents. This app can only be applied inside the work zone, and the cameras must be removed when construction is complete, which is scheduled for early 2023. Civil speeding offenses are reviewed and issued by the Delaware State Police. The DOT must report to the Joint Capital Improvement Committee at the end of the project. According to an August 2022 article in the Delaware News Journal, nearly 3,700 civil speeding notices in the work zone have been issued as of April 17, 2022. Early data suggests that the work area cameras have been effective, with 209 accidents in the work area in the 4 1/2 months from April to August 2021 before the cameras went live, compared to 95 1/2 months after the cameras went live in 2022. « The post-accident data reflects a 55 percent reduction in total crashes and a 50 percent reduction in injury crashes, » said Charles McLeod, spokesman for Delaware DOT. Every dollar of revenue from speed cameras goes directly to the Community Road Safety Fund to improve road safety and provide road safety education, vital infrastructure and enforcement. Virginia (HB 1442, 2020) has allowed state and local law enforcement agencies to use speed cameras in roadwork zones and school transition zones. An offence occurs when a motorist is caught by a radar driving at least 10 miles per hour through the school crossing zone or the speed limit of the specified roadwork zone. A law enforcement officer must verify and confirm the violation.
The maximum fine cannot exceed $100. Municipalities collect revenue from crimes they issue, and revenue from crimes committed by the State Police is paid into the Literature Fund for Low Interest Loans to Public Schools. Speed camera offences are not considered a conviction against the driver`s records or will be used for insurance purposes unless a law enforcement officer uses a photo speed monitoring device and issues a subpoena at the time of the violation. Finally, state and local law enforcement agencies using speed cameras must report annually the number of successful prosecutions and the total amount of fines imposed on the State Police, with the first report noting that « no Commonwealth authority has so far reported the use of photographic speed monitoring devices. » C. For the purposes of this Section, « mobile radars » means equipment intended to collect photographic or video evidence of an alleged violation of speed limits by recording images representing the registration plate or other identifier of a motor vehicle not operating in accordance with an attached speed limitation plate. « Speed cameras play an important role in the safety of commuters by reducing the number of fatalities on our road network, including in high-risk areas. State legislators have typically implemented and envisioned more than 100 automated enforcement laws per year since 2018. During the same period, between 2018 and 2022, states enacted more than 50 automated enforcement laws. The following sections detail and summarize recently passed automated enforcement laws in the following categories: speed cameras, work area cameras, school zone cameras, and red light cameras, as well as a brief section on the possible use of the automated app for distracted driving.
Vermont (HB 433, 2021) commissioned a feasibility study to install radars in work zones. The report was released in January 2022 by the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans). The report concludes that « to complement existing efforts on Vermont highways to improve safety in work areas through engineering, enforcement, and training, a radar program would improve safety in Vermont work areas. » The reports recommended that VTrans be tasked with managing a radar program, depending on whether or not the Vermont legislature enacts legislation with guiding principles for the program. According to the IIHS, 179 U.S. radars were in service as of September 2022. Communities in 18 states and the District of Columbia, according to media sources and other public information tracked by the IIHS, compared to just four communities in Arizona and Utah in 1995. Peoria, Arizona, and Paradise Valley, Arizona, were the first two communities to install speed cameras in 1987. The cameras are used nationally in roadwork zones in Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Oregon and Pennsylvania.
At least 10 states — Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Virginia — have legally approved speed cameras for use in roadworks or construction zones, see the Work Area Cameras section for details. In most cases, states that allow the use of red light cameras have passed laws with specific provisions that allow local governments to develop red light camera programs. Derzeit haben Stadt- und Kommunalverwaltungen in 23 Staaten – Alabama, Arizona, Kalifornien, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvanie, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia und Washington – und dem District of Columbia Rotlichtkameraprogramme oder Pilotprogramme eingerichtet.
