The main purpose of this report was to provide Australasian road safety and enforcement agencies with guidance on appropriate strategies and practices for enforcement programs aimed at speeding in both urban and rural areas. An important secondary task of the project was the development of consistent performance and outcome measures of speed enforcement activities in Australia and New Zealand. Volume I provides the main outputs from the project. In the context of the situation in mid-1998 when most of the data was gathered, it provides summaries of enforcement resources and practices within each jurisdiction in Australasia, and a 'synthesis of current practice', which attempts to draw together the key elements of speed enforcement as practised throughout Australia and New Zealand. Also included are recommended performance measures and outcome measures related to speed enforcement, and a brief discussion of research in progress. The synthesis of current practice discusses core beliefs relating to speed enforcement, makes a reasoned assessment of current best practice, and explores actually or potentially contentious issues. Topic headings are: Technology; Methods of enforcement; Intensity of enforcement; Performance and outcome measures; Intelligence-driven operations; Tolerances; Penalties; Public education. Volume 2 details, in a series of 13 appendices, the speed-enforcement-related data that was collected from each of the jurisdictions as part of the project. Also summarised are the outputs from a workshop on speed enforcement practices. The organisations and individuals contacted within each jurisdiction are listed. (Author/publisher)
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