Queensland Police Services (QPS) and Queensland Transport have jointly developed an advanced Speed Management Strategy (SMS) for the Australian State of Queensland. QPS awarded the contract to develop, implement, and support the image and notice processing systems for its new Traffic Camera Office (TCO) to Redflex Traffic Systems Pty Ltd. The system is scheduled for system testing to begin in February 1998, and live operations to start in June 1998. It is designed to process about 600,000 speed camera images and about 300,000 red light images per year, and will use the world's most efficient image processing technologies. SMS is expected to have profound impacts on driver behaviour, and outperform the safety aspects of any comparable programme. Queensland has already dramatically improved its road safety and cut its fatalities. The Queensland systems contain inherent technology migration paths to new digital technologies and systems. New Gatso speed cameras are being deployed at sites where speed limits have been reviewed because of a high incidence of speeding or traffic crashes. SMS's main objective is to translate cumbersome, unwieldy camera film into high-resolution digital images. Queensland police are confident that SMS could provide the world's leading example of mass speed and red light enforcement.
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