Comments on: How to calibrate a speed and red light camera https://wongm.com/2024/01/how-to-calibrate-a-speed-and-red-light-camera/ Marcus Wong. Gunzel. Engineering geek. History nerd. Mon, 05 Feb 2024 07:18:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2024/01/how-to-calibrate-a-speed-and-red-light-camera/#comment-910778 Mon, 05 Feb 2024 07:18:53 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21807#comment-910778 In reply to Paul Westcott.

Google Street View shows them working in June 2018, but broken in October 2022.

https://www.google.com/maps/@-38.0140108,144.4659754,3a,37.7y,66.85h,82.98t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s6CGrfiIuto07AtX9hkIVNw!2e0!5s20180601T000000!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu

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By: Paul Westcott https://wongm.com/2024/01/how-to-calibrate-a-speed-and-red-light-camera/#comment-910044 Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:11:33 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21807#comment-910044 The speed check system on the Melbourne-bound lanes of the Princes Freeway, mounted on the Beach Road (Avalon Airport) overpass, has been out of action for well over a year.

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By: Aiden Webber https://wongm.com/2024/01/how-to-calibrate-a-speed-and-red-light-camera/#comment-908681 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 07:37:12 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21807#comment-908681 In reply to Marcus Wong.

There also used to be another one on the Hume just west of Wodonga (Melbourne Bound only), and when I travelled past it back in October it didn’t seem to be working at all.

They were also on the Calder Freeway (Melbourne Bound) at the Bulla-Diggers Rest Rd Overpass in Diggers Rest, An Eastbound speed Checker on the Western Fwy at the same Ballan location, and another Westbound speed checker on the Western Fwy at the Gillies Street Nth overpass in Ballarat.

TBF, they had become increasingly redundant over the years with quite a lot of cars these days having built in (and thus probably more accurate) current speed displays alongside the existing speedometers, and the amount of standalone GPS systems that have a ‘your current speed’ in KM/H displayed as well.

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By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2024/01/how-to-calibrate-a-speed-and-red-light-camera/#comment-908244 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:16:25 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21807#comment-908244 In reply to Andrew Cee.

The speed check units on freeways have all died over the years – there also used to be one on the Hume Freeway northbound at Beveridge, and westbound on the Western Freeway at Ballan.

Defective speed check units on the Western Freeway westbound at Ballan

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By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2024/01/how-to-calibrate-a-speed-and-red-light-camera/#comment-908243 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:14:48 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21807#comment-908243 In reply to Jesse.

The intersection of Kings Way and Sturt Street, South Melbourne is another trial camera site, but I don’t believe they have any enforcement cameras running there.

Trial red light and speed camera installation

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By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2024/01/how-to-calibrate-a-speed-and-red-light-camera/#comment-908241 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:11:51 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21807#comment-908241 In reply to Philip.

Here’s a closer view of a TIRTL unit mounted permanently in the kerb.

Secondary infrared sensors for a combined speed and red light camera

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By: Andrew Cee https://wongm.com/2024/01/how-to-calibrate-a-speed-and-red-light-camera/#comment-908238 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:05:16 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21807#comment-908238 It is good to know cameras are carefully calibrated. I will guess the speed detection indicator cameras on the Princes Highway near Geelong will never work again.

I think after the William Street camera, the one at Fitzroy Street and Lakeside Drive was very successful at revenue raising. I saw so many cars flashed there. So many 40 km/h signs but apparently no one could see them.

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By: Jesse https://wongm.com/2024/01/how-to-calibrate-a-speed-and-red-light-camera/#comment-908128 Mon, 22 Jan 2024 22:09:55 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21807#comment-908128 The intersection of Canterbury Rd and Elgar Rd in box hill is where new speed camera technologies are tested and verified. At any given time they have several experimental speed cameras installed, plus at least two conventional approved speed cameras to verify results and actually issue fines. Short version of the story: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SPEED through that intersection!

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By: Philip https://wongm.com/2024/01/how-to-calibrate-a-speed-and-red-light-camera/#comment-908126 Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:58:45 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21807#comment-908126 Those Tirtl counters are very clever. They can give you all the axles of all the vehicles passing because they only see what’s just above the ground. Then they instantly turn that into vehicle lengths and speeds. Of course they have to be supervised or arseholes will destroy them. They can also be mounted permantently in modified kerb sections, which you’ll see in some places with little black windows to allow the beams to shoot across the road.

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