Section control

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Section control route in Poland

The term portion control refers to a system for monitoring speed limits in road traffic , not the speed is measured at a certain point in which, but the average speed over a longer distance. Especially in Austria, which is Scheinanglizismus section control used (in the UK, this process officially SPECS , abbr. For Spe ed C heck S ervices, in everyday use average speed check called).

This is done with the help of two overhead control points that are equipped with cameras. The vehicle is photographed at both the first and the second checkpoint. The vehicles are identified using the license plate number using automatic number plate recognition . The average speed is determined from the time interval between the two control points. If this is above the maximum permitted speed, the data determined is automatically forwarded to the executive .

Since all lanes including the hard shoulder are monitored, lane changes are irrelevant. The system differentiates between cars, trucks and cars with trailers and can therefore take into account different permitted maximum speeds.

Austria

history

The sign at the beginning of a section control route

Such a system has been in use on the Austrian Danube bank motorway (A 22) in Vienna since September 1, 2003 . In February 2005, the courier reported that the section controls in this area had already been financed by the fines. In 2012, the operator of the section controls , ASFINAG , confirmed the success of the fact that since the installation of the system the number of accidents and casualty injuries has decreased by 50 or 60 percent, and there have been no more fatal accidents in this area.

On the route section on the alternating section of the southern motorway (A2) , a maximum speed of 80 km / h applies in rain and snow in the direction of Vienna and the system installed there can also monitor the weather conditions and react automatically.

In February 2005, a mobile section control was temporarily installed for the first time on an 18 km long construction site section on the West Autobahn (A1) between Haid and Sattledt, which has since been used at other construction sites.

On October 10, 2011, a section control was installed at the Plabutschtunnel near Graz on the Pyhrn Autobahn A9, in which foreign drivers are also recorded with the help of front photos.

Section Control has been used on a state road for the first time since the end of June 2012, in the area of Gföhler Berg on Kremser Strasse (B 37) .

Section control on the B 37 near Gföhl

Problems

At first there were legal problems with the reports between ASFINAG and the police, as the exact times of the ordered speed change were not precisely documented and therefore appeals arose. However, these were delivered after clarification and were therefore legally effective.

At the beginning there was also confusion among many motorists because they thought the toll portals of the truck toll were measuring points for section control.

VfGH finding

After a complaint by a Viennese citizen about concerns about data protection reasons at the Constitutional Court , the Supreme Court ruled on June 15, 2007 in a decision that the surveillance carried out to date was inadmissible. The Constitutional Court judged the electronic speed measurement to be illegal, even for those drivers who are not driving too fast, as there is no adequate basis for this in regulations or laws. In the meantime, however, this has been remedied by corresponding ordinances from the Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology (Federal Law Gazette II No. 168/2007, 169/2007 and 176/2007), and the section controls have been used again since then.

Locations

country Street designation section speed Journey-

direction

regulation annotation
Lower Austria A 2 south motorway Changeover section 2015 km 73.0 - 67.0 Vienna BGBl. II No. 307/2015
Carinthia A 2 south motorway Ehrentalerbergtunnel 2013 km 317.1 - 320.6 100 km / h both BGBl. II No. 339/2013
Upper Austria A 7 Mühlkreis motorway Hummelhof 2014 km 4.5 - 7.0 60-80 km / h both BGBl. II No. 287/2014 including ramps at the connection points
Styria A 9 Pyhrn motorway Plabutschtunnel km 174.6-184.9 100 km / h both BGBl. II No. 321/2011
Vienna A 22 Danube bank motorway Kaisermühlen tunnel km 1.4 - 3.7 80 km / h both BGBl. II No. 168/2007
Salzburg B 311 Pinzgauer Strasse Schönberg tunnel km 12.3 - 15.2 80 km / h both
Salzburg B 311 Pinzgauer Strasse Schmittentunnel km 44.5 - 49.7 80 km / h both
Lower Austria B 37 Kremser Strasse Gföhler Berg km 13.0 - 17.5 100 km / h both first system on a state road
Tyrol / Vorarlberg S 16 Arlberg expressway Arlberg tunnel km 23.8 - 34.1 80 km / h both Was introduced due to dangerous overtaking maneuvers.

Furthermore, 14 mobile systems are in use at construction sites on motorways and expressways.

Germany

In Germany , the topic of section control was first discussed at the end of January 2009 at the road safety day in Goslar. A pilot test is to be started in Stuttgart under the green-red state government.

At the end of 2018, a section control system on the B6 between Gleidingen and Laatzen went into operation with a three-year delay. The entrance camera at the beginning of the measurement route records the license plate and the system stores other vehicle-related data such as the direction of travel, location and time. The exit camera is used to determine whether the driver has exceeded the permitted speed or not. If the system detects a speeding violation, a third camera detects the driver in order to be able to impose a fine. If there was no violation, the data will be deleted “without a trace”.

After a test phase, the system was in regular operation from January 14, 2019 to March 12, 2019 and fines were imposed. The State Commissioner for Data Protection Lower Saxony already called shortly after the start of regular operation in February 2019 to end the pilot operation of section control immediately. As a reason, she cites resolutions of the Federal Constitutional Court on the license plate reader, which also evaluates so-called "misses". The court had ruled that the collection of all license plates without exception constitutes data collection and thus an interference with the basic right to informational self-determination of those affected.

On March 12, 2019, the Hanover Administrative Court first ruled that the temporary recording of license plates up to the second camera was not regulated by law at the time of the decision and was therefore not permitted. According to the administrative court, the recording of all license plates represents an interference with the basic right to informational self-determination of those affected. This requires a legal basis. At the time of the court decision, however, there was no such legal basis in either Lower Saxony state law or federal law. This was particularly evident from the fact that the Lower Saxony state parliament was discussing an amendment to the state police law at the time of the court decision, which should first create the legal basis for the section control. The system therefore had to be shut down immediately. Legal recourse to the Hanover Administrative Court was opened because the plaintiff wanted the section control to be lifted. This is an action for a performance by the administration .

After it had already allowed on July 4, 2019 to resume operation of the route radar until the main proceedings were opened - the legal basis in the Lower Saxony Police and Regulatory Authorities Act had meanwhile been created - the Lower Saxony Higher Administrative Court lifted the ban on November 13, 2019 with an appeal judgment from the first instance. This final judgment was also justified by the changed legal situation. The state government then announced the activation of the system for the following day. So that a comprehensive and scientific assessment of the effect of this pilot plant on traffic safety is possible, it should remain in operation for twelve months if possible.

Switzerland

In Switzerland , the first section inspection was put into operation in January 2011 after a 3-month test phase on the A2 in the Arisdorf tunnel on a 1.5 kilometer stretch in the canton of Basel-Landschaft .

Great Britain

In Great Britain , many speed measurements are also carried out via a section control, called SPECS there. In contrast to other countries, however, the speed measurement is indicated by normal road signs.

The SPECS cameras are almost all known, are also mentioned on official websites and shown in detail on maps. Most of the time, the cameras are in the middle of the street on traffic islands and are held above the respective lanes by a blue painted mast. The cameras themselves are painted yellow and have infrared emitters on the right and left. The cameras are rarely painted yellow.

Italy

The system used in Italy is called “Safety Tutor” or “Tutor” for short and is very similar in function to the Austrian system. Signs mark the monitored sections.

Netherlands

In the Netherlands , too , a type of section control is operated, the Trajectcontrole (route control). She photographs each vehicle from behind with an infrared flash. The photo units are attached to the back of illuminated speed limit displays.

Trajectcontroles are on the A12 near Arnhem (between Velperbroek and Kreuz Waterberg, both directions, 100 km / h), on the A12 near Utrecht (both directions, 100 km / h, side lanes 80 km / h), on the A12 Utrecht towards Den Haag (120 km / h, only in the direction of Den Haag / Rotterdam ), on the A4 between Hoofddorp and Nieuw Vennep (130 km / h), on the A4 in both directions between Zoeterwoude and Leidschendam (130 km / h between 19 and 6 100 km / h between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m.) and the A10 West at Ring Amsterdam (100 km / h), on the A20 Rotterdam between Terbregseplein and Kleinpolderplein (80–100 km / h), on the N919 at Veenhuizen (80 km / h) and on the Zeelandbrug (80 km / h).

Poland

In Poland there are a total of 30 section controls on motorways or other roads. The system is also used in inner-city traffic, where it is intended to replace speed cameras .

For this purpose, an ordinance amending the law on road traffic was presented in the Ministry of Infrastructure in June 2011 and passed on July 1st. The ordinance allows two overhead control points to be set up, equipped with cameras, to take pictures of the vehicle and to measure the average speed. The location of these checkpoints should be decided on the basis of a previous security analysis on this section. In addition, the characteristics of the street, the average volume of traffic, visibility on the street and the presence of public facilities such as schools or places of worship are taken into account. In addition, it was stipulated that the road section to be checked must have a length of 10 km or more within and up to 20 km outside of built-up areas. Vehicles are not automatically registered if the limit values ​​are exceeded at up to 10 km / h.

From June 22 to 30, the section control system was tested for the first time on the A1 motorway on the 16 km section between the Swarożyn and Pelplin junctions . This section has an increased accident rate. The corresponding places with the overhead control points were marked with signs . A total of 28 drivers were registered who had driven at a top speed of over 200 km / h.

See also

Web links

Commons : Section-Control  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ presse.com: Ten years of Section Control: No fatal accident. May 24, 2012
  2. ↑ Plabutschtunnel: Section Control hits at 103 km / h. Kleine Zeitung, October 7, 2011, archived from the original on November 5, 2011 ; accessed on January 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Kurier: Tempo brake: "Section Control brings security" , May 31, 2012
  4. ↑ OTS: Section Control "Gföhler Berg" goes into operation. June 28, 2012
  5. ↑ orf.at: Immediate stop for Section Control. June 15, 2007
  6. ↑ G 147,148 / 06 (PDF; 51 kB) Retrieved on July 4, 2010.
  7. ↑ Section Control systems. Retrieved on March 20, 2018 (German).
  8. ↑ Speed controls - Land is considering new technology. In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de. August 5, 2011, accessed October 18, 2013 .
  9. ↑ spd-bw.de: ACE and SPD call for a pilot test for Section Control
  10. ↑ Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior: Discuss "Section Control" for speed limits.
  11. ↑ a b State representative demands: End the pilot operation of Section Control immediately | The State Commissioner for Data Protection Lower Saxony. Retrieved February 10, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Section Control on the B6 goes into operation. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Klaus Wieschemeyer: Germany's first section control is armed . January 11, 2019 ( noz.de [accessed January 17, 2019]).
  14. ↑ No legal basis for traffic monitoring by means of "Section Control" - 7th Chamber approves urgent application and action | Administrative Court of Hanover. Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Section Control in Laatzen - Court in Hanover stops nationwide first line radar . In: Rheinische Post . March 12, 2019 ( rp-online.de [accessed March 12, 2019]).
  16. ↑ No legal basis for traffic monitoring by means of "Section Control" - 7th Chamber approves urgent application and action | Administrative Court of Hanover. Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Section radar can go back into operation
  18. ↑ Germany's first route radar near Hanover is legal. In: Rheinische Post. November 13, 2019, accessed November 14, 2019 .
  19. ^ Report from 20-Minuten-Online
  20. ↑ SpeedCamerasUK.com: SPECS speed cameras explained, UK SPECS traffic cameras . Speedcamerasuk.com. Retrieved July 4, 2010.
  21. ↑ SpeedCamerasUK: SPECS speed cameras locations around Great Britain . Speedcamerasuk.com. Retrieved July 4, 2010.
  22. ↑ Il tutor. In: autostrade.it (Italian; with a list of all monitored route sections), accessed on October 24, 2019.
  23. ↑ [1] (Polish)
  24. ↑ Bramki pomiaru prędkości versus polskie drogi - będzie jak zwykle. (Polish)
  25. ↑ Odcinkowy pomiar prędkości na A1. (Polish)
  26. ↑ A1: ruszył odcinkowy pomiar prędkości. (Polish)
  27. ^ Pomorze: Monitoring na autostradzie A1. (Polish)
  28. ↑ Odcinkowy pomiar prędkości na A1 działał tydzień. (Polish)