Related Publications
Web Links and Legislation
- MUARC Report 200 - Speed Enforcement Research: Principles Learnt and Implications for Practice
- MUARC Report 201 - The interaction between speed camera enforcement and speed-related mass media publicity in Victoria
- MUARC Report 224 - Public perceptions of Victorian speed enforcement initiatives
- MUARC Report 242 - The history and development of speed camera use
- MUARC Report 261 - An evaluation of the default 50 km/h speed limit in Victoria
- MUARC Report 267 - Overall impact during 2001-2004 of Victorian speed-related package
- Victoria Police - EastLink Speed Cameras
Traffic Cameras
Speed and red-light cameras operate throughout Victoria. Cameras cut crashes by reducing average speeds, changing driving behaviour and encouraging safer driving.
Drivers are less likely to continue to drive over the speed limit or run through a red light after they are issued with an infringement.
A Monash University study found that following high levels of publicity and enforcement from July 1990, casualty crashes were reduced on arterial roads in Melbourne, country towns and on rural Freeways by 32 per cent, 23 per cent and 14 per cent respectively.
The animation below demonstrates how a fixed freeway camera captures a speeding vehicle: