How is traffic infringement data handled ?

[fangq]

Just wondering how infringement data is handled and utilized by the powers that be in a positive way..aka data mining.

For example..ticket issued eg exceeding speed limit. Data is collated and I would assume impacts on some sort of report for the region.There may be a spike in speeding offences for a certain zone, and thus more police manpower resources are allocated to the area.

What I would like to know is whether statistical spikes are analyzed to see WHY there is a sudden anomaly. For example..is there a speed advisory sign that is obscured ;are tourists confused when entering/exiting varying speed zones..I think you all get the gist.

I wonder how the following proposal would fly. IF a zone does have a spike in road offences, send a questionaire out to people who have signed off on the offence, and query them as to why it happened. Voluntary answers, but any reply goes into a draw to redeem a point. If the data collated does show that there is some sort of problem with the road in question, it could then be addressed.

Just a thought.

Steve