Impact on average vehicle speed with the introduction of educational actions and optical character recognition equipment in the Federal District, Brazil
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Average speed. Optical character recognition. Fixed radars.Abstract
Every year, traffic accidents leave millions of people dead and injured worldwide. Speeding is one of the factors that most contribute to accident severity. The implementation of electronic road speed control equipment promotes a reduction in traffic accidents and their effects. Despite the effectiveness of those devices, some drivers have the habit of braking before and accelerating after checkpoints. A possible solution for the problem of that speeding-up effect and its consequences may be through controlling the average speed. The objective of this work is to verify the behavior of vehicle drivers regarding the average speed between control points when subjected to educational actions. For this, two educational actions were applied to sections of three highways of the Federal District, Brazil. The first action warned vehicle drivers that there was equipment on the highway for monitoring average speed between checkpoints and the second action was the sending of correspondence to vehicle owners who still traveled above the tolerated average speed, after the first educational action. The results of the second educational action indicated very little variation in the average speed when compared with the data of the first educational action.
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