The Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF) was contracted by the City of Winnipeg to evaluate the Winnipeg photo enforcement safety program of the Traffic Safety Unit of the Winnipeg Police Service. The evaluation project began in the spring of 2008. This final report contains the results of the evaluation project. The objective of this project is to evaluate the Winnipeg photo enforcement safety program. The components of the evaluation include: • a review of the literature about photo enforcement; • a process evaluation of Winnipeg's photo enforcement safety program; • a public opinion poll in Winnipeg about the photo enforcement safety program; • an analysis of the effect of photo enforcement on traffic safety in the municipality, including annual statistics and year to year variances in: » traffic collisions; » traffic injuries; and, » collision severity; • a controlled study evaluating the impact of photo enforcement at intersections on speed and red light violations; and, • a controlled study evaluating the impact of mobile photo radar on speed at schools and construction sites – note that due to data limitations it was not possible to carry out this component of the evaluation project; this is explained in more detail in section 7 of this report. (Author/publisher)
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