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

[gz1]

It would never fly as it won't bring in any increased revenue.

[alecrain]

That's a good idea, but I don't think it would fly... see above.

[Jeeepers]

Originally Posted by gz1

It would never fly as it won't bring in any increased revenue.

Cynical, but probably all too true.

[gz1]

No really, not at all cynical. Just real life truth.
For e.g. this easter break NSW decided to go with high visibility policing where every available highway patrol was on the road during the break. Result: Zero road toll. Not one death. Lowest ever recorded. and the lowest ever number of speeding fines. RTA response: Nothing. nada. Just weasel words trying to talk about how there were not many cars on the road due to high petrol prices and such. And Mr Rosenthal (Spelling?) let it slip that the extra police presence indicated some spots in the country that "people were speeding therefore would be looked at for extra speed cameras" .

[VSSII]

Nothing different was done by the police this year to any other year. Whatever the RTA may have said. Whilst it's a credit there were no fatalaties the lack of tickets may have had something to do with the fact it rained quite a bit in the heavily populated NSW areas.