Monday, January 14, 2013

iAES - itelligent Automated Enforcement System

From date of roll out, AES did not come shy of news coverage, be it the contractors, the offenders, the courts, the opposition, the government and now the AG.

While solving all the currently issues, I believe there is another area that can be improved in order to better meet the AES implementation objectives - to reduce traffic offends thus reducing road accidents.

What I think the AES still lack off now is the intelligence in a typical speed limit enforcement.  In typical 110km/h highway, the authority claimed that AES will only start enforcing at 120km/h.  However, different vehicles types have different speed limit on the highway.  Passenger cars 110km/h, but lorry and bus are only 90km/h.

Even at 100km/h, an over-speeding lorry / bus can pose considerable danger to other road users.  And the impact of an accident involving lorry / bus is usually higher than normal passenger cars.  Why they are not under the enforcement scope of the AES? 

From the AES "demo" shown by the authority prior to the implementation, AES would be able to capture the photo of x number of speeding cars simultaneously.  Why can't the scope be further expanded to profiling of vehicle e.g. large vehicle and small vehicle, and further enforce speed limit of different vehicle profile to 90km/h and 110km/h respectively?  Let's not forget the bike too.  Hardly see any big cc bike that is not speeding on the highway. 

I don't believe technology limitation to be used as the excuse for not enforcing vehicle type speed limit enforcement. The millions can be better spent for a Automated Enforcement System, that has a brain in it.

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