Road Traffic and Transportation Offences in UK Law
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The relationship between traffic and non-traffic offending in Western Australia
Self-selection policing is an approach whereby serious underlying criminality is detected by an offender’s minor crimes (known as trigger offences). Strategic offences are offences that indicate an...... ... ’s minor crimes (known as trigger offences). Strategic offences are offences thatindicate an ... -ously about how to drive a car or follow the road rules. Despite its automaticity,members of the ... Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour,53, ... ...
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Effects of temporal characteristics and weather conditions on speeding sanction rates in automatic traffic enforcement
Speeding is dangerous and contributes significantly to traffic safety. Despite that, speeding is not perceived as serious crime, and has been a relatively neglected topic in criminology. The purpos...... ... motor-vehicle crashes studied by the road accident investigation teams in Finland in2018. A ... , as well as for the enforcing of minor offences (Vadeby et al., 2018; seealso Bogdan et al., ... Transportation Research Part F 13: 179–196.Field S (1992) The ... ...
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The automated speed enforcement system in Great Britain: between a technical revolution and administrative continuity
At the start of the 1990s, Great Britain implemented a national programme of speed checks that includes more than 5000 check locations. The coverage of the road network then allows increased survei...... ... The coverage of the road network then allows increased surveillance of ... are convincing; a reduction in traffic speeds and an improvement in the ... offenders and number of speeding offences com- ... Practice’, NCHRP Synthesis, Transportation Research Board. Washington, DC: National ... ...
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Effects of temporal characteristics and weather conditions on speeding sanction rates in automatic traffic enforcement
Speeding is dangerous and contributes significantly to traffic safety. Despite that, speeding is not perceived as serious crime, and has been a relatively neglected topic in criminology. The purpos...... ... motor-vehicle crashes studied by the road accident investigation teams in Finland in2018. A ... , as well as for the enforcing of minor offences (Vadeby et al., 2018; seealso Bogdan et al., ... Transportation Research Part F 13: 179–196.Field S (1992) The ... ...
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Criminals on the road? An exploratory study of those convicted of causing death by dangerous driving in Taipei City, Taiwan, 2014−2018
Empirical research conducted in the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand and parts of Europe has accumulated over the last 50 years and has identified links between mainstream crime (e.g. violence and a...... ... and acquisitive crime) and driving offences (e.g.dangerous driving, drink driving, driving ... from the local traffic and transportation department.This serious driving offence is ... ...
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Road Traffic: Do Modern Conditions Require the Creation of a Separate Organization or Organizations for the Regulation of Road Traffic, Enforcement of Traffic and Promotion of Road Safety?
We congratulate Chief Inspector Gates on winning the First Prize and H. M. Gold Medal in the Essay Competition of 1961, and have pleasure in publishing his Essay below.... ... , of course, to provide roads for safe and econ-omic transportation, and with the need for large allocations of publicfunds for this purpose ... would lead to grave results.Nevertheless, there are many traffic offences which are serious inthemselves and contain an element of recklessness ... ...
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Using police bicycle patrols to manage social order in bicycle and pedestrian traffic networks
This article examines how bicycle police units perceive their impact on social norms of rule compliance and risk behaviours in bicycle and pedestrian traffic networks. Using qualitative methods, a ...... ... In such endeavours, issues of road safety and traffic reg-ulatory compliance become ... to use bicycles as a mode of transportation (Sanders, 2015). Further-more, cycling also ... a lot of bicyclists who still commit offences. It is not unusual thatthey run through red ... ...
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Young and unaffected by road policing strategies: Using deterrence theory to explain provisional drivers’ (non)compliance
Newly licenced drivers are disproportionately represented in traffic injuries and crash statistics. Despite the implementation of countermeasures designed to improve safety, such as graduated drive...... ... traffic injuries and crash stat- ... alcohol content (BAC) and the transportation ... over again for committing traffic offences’; strongly ... ...
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Chapter 7: Autonomous Vehicles
... ... and connectivity with other vehicles or road users, the road infrastructure and the cloud ... for bus, train, car and truck transportation ... 5 ... on ensuring that victims of road traffic collisions are compensated quickly and fairly. In ... that would have comprised criminal offences if committed by a (human) driver. It would have ... ...
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The New Transport and its Administrative Problems
... ... has been such a Renaissance of the Road and such a Re-formation of our Railways ... new types of road to meet a new traffic of increasing volume. As a contribution ... States of America, the Transportation Act, passed in Igzo-a year earlier ... , not merely the detection of offences, but the prevention of offences and acts ... ...
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