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Traffic Safety Camera Program – Portland, Oregon

Publication Year:

Vision Zero Success Story – Behavioral

Background

The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) implemented the traffic safety camera program in 2016 to reduce speeding in neighborhoods and save lives. The traffic safety cameras were installed along corridors in the City’s High Crash Network. The High Crash Network included 30 streets; a composite of the top 20 high crash streets for driving, the top 20 for bicycling, and the top 20 for walking. The City identified four corridors for the traffic safety cameras:

  • SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway.
  • SE Division Street.
  • SE 122nd Avenue.
  • NE Marine Drive.

By early 2018, PBOT installed eight (8) systems along the four (4) high crash corridors enforcing each direction of travel. In advance of each traffic safety camera, a speed reader board (SRB) displayed a driver’s speed. When drivers exceeded the posted speed limit, the traffic safety camera system engaged and photographed the driver and the front and rear of the vehicle.

Read the full noteworthy practice:
Traffic Safety Camera Program — Portland, Oregon