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Spotting traffic violations

According to the recent World Health Organization data, approximately 1,3 million people die as a result of road accidents each year, costing most countries approximately 3% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Nearly 93% of the world’s fatalities on the roads occur in low- and middle-income countries, even though these countries have around 60% of the world’s vehicles.

WHO suggests that one effective intervention to address traffic issues is to design safer infrastructures and incorporate road safety features into land-use and transport planning. Thus, implementing intelligent solutions like the Dahua Traffic Management Solution can help ensure road safety. Here are some the traffic violations that this solution can detect:

Intersections and crossroads

This solution provides detection for pedestrian crossing, illegal lane changing, disobeying road direction signs and parking in bike lanes. It also offers detection of the two most common traffic violations: speeding and running red lights.

Among all the causes of traffic accidents, speeding has been the most common and predominant. In high-income countries, speeding contributes to about 30% of traffic-related fatalities, while it accounts for about 50% of road casualties in middle-income countries.

The Dahua Smart Traffic Management Solution has cameras equipped with automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology that capture both the plate number and time from the beginning to the end of the detection zone. The information is then transferred to the DMSS platform to evaluate the average velocity of each passing vehicle. The recommended distance is between two and five kilometres, which yields to 99,8% accuracy rate. The margin of error decreases as the length of the detection zone increases.

What’s more, to make it easier and more convenient for users, Dahua offers portable and fixed installations for both point speed detection and section speed detection, allowing traffic personnel to move to different road points if necessary.

Red light enforcement, needless to say, is a crucial element in traffic management, with statistics suggesting that every year, 21,5% of all traffic accidents are caused by motorists running red lights.

At present, most red light enforcement solutions involve the use of underground sensors which carry various disadvantages (e.g. need to dig to bury the sensor). Dahua’s Smart Traffic Management Solution, on the other hand, centres on video. At the core of this solution is a system that synchronises the status of red light signals with the trigger signal of the camera. When a violation occurs, Dahua cameras take three images of the violation to be used as evidence: vehicle licence plate, status of traffic light and an overview of the scene. The DSS management and storage platform collects these data from each camera and distributes them to client operators for further processing. Edge storage devices ensure that data is saved even when a power failure occurs.

For highways, flyovers or ramps

Observing proper speed and driving behaviour is a must, especially on critical zones like national highways, flyovers and ramps. The Dahua Traffic Management Solution has just the right set of intelligent tools to help in traffic enforcement. Aside from detecting speeding and red light violations, this solution can also detect phone using while driving, unfastened seatbelts, disobeying traffic signs, occupying emergency lanes, illegal lane changing, counter-flowing, etc.

This solution supports multi-tracking of up to six vehicles at the same time, with detection range of 3 m to 100 m and monitoring range of up to four lanes. And for scenarios that require long distance detection, it offers a 28 MP dual-lens traffic camera with monitoring distance of up to 80 metres.

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