Traffic monitoring
With traffic monitoring (abbreviation: VÜ) a range of tasks of the entire order is police or other transport authorities meant includes the following areas:
- Avoidance of danger within the scope of police competence.
- Prosecution of criminal offenses and administrative offenses .
- Monitoring the flow of traffic, for example to identify or avoid traffic jams .
Traffic surveillance includes preventive and repressive police activities in the traffic area to increase traffic safety.
The tasks are usually performed by members of the traffic police. The monitoring of stationary traffic ( road traffic ) is, however, mainly carried out by the municipalities (municipal traffic monitoring; KVÜ).
The monitoring of flowing traffic includes, above all, speed and distance measurement, also popularly known as "radar traps ", although other measurement methods such as light barriers , single-sided sensors or piezo sensors are used for this in addition to traffic radar .