Effects of red light cameras on violations and crashes: A review of the international literature

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-23

  Retting, Richard A ^a   Ferguson, Susan A ^a   Hakkert, A Shalom ^b  

^a Ins Institute for Highway Safety ^*  (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Automated Enforcement; Red Light Cameras; Red Light Running Crashes; Right Angle Crashes; Signalized Intersections

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMERA; EVALUATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; POLICE; RED LIGHT; REVIEW; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUSTRALIA; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CALIFORNIA; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; LAW ENFORCEMENT; ODDS RATIO; PHOTOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037343224     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580309858     Document Type: Article

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