SpeedNabber™ for Municipalities

Municipalities have a need to calm traffic at a variety of locations. A key step in designing a traffic calming program is to determine where traffic calming devices are most needed and would be most effective in improving community safety. The challenge every city faces is prioritizing the list of needs based on factors such as speed, city and highway traffic volume and safety concerns as well as pedestrian traffic, proximity to a school, church, community center or park. By ranking these factors and assigning values to them for each area of need, a city can determine the streets with the greatest safety needs.

The most basic version of SpeedNabber provides for highly accurate radar speed detection and speed display in a very portable package. The system is battery powered and can be easily relocated. In many cases this will provide for significant traffic calming. However in certain situations the addition of license plate capture provides significantly more incentive to the vehicle operator to reduce speed. Enforcement may take the form of a gentle warning letter to the owner of the offending party and eventually the issuance of a more definitive letter defining legal steps that the association might take.