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Road safety and automatic enforcement in France: results and outlook

Automated enforcement is a promising means of improving road safety. For 15 months, France has been implementing an important programme involving 1000 radars by the end of this year. This article describes the technical and organisational aspects of this programme and shows that the first results are encouraging and show promise for what is to come.