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Investigating the Effectiveness of a Traffic Enforcement Camera-System on the Road Safety in Saudi Arabia

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Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation (AHFE 2018)

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Car accidents are one of the significant causes of death and injuries across the world. In Saudi Arabia, the traffic accidents have increased in the past few years resulting in massive fatalities and economic losses. As a possible solution to reduce the increased number of accidents, the Saudi traffic agency came up with a new traffic system consists of cameras installed on certain roads and highways. The goal of this study is to investigate the human behaviors in interaction with the speed camera enforcement’s system in Saudi Arabia. In this study, we surveyed a sample size of 251 Saudi citizen to investigate the effectiveness of SAHER system. The results showed that the significant factors couldn’t be affected by the new system and SAHER would not change people’s driving behavior and increase the road safety.

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The authors would like to thank the all participants for their participation in the survey who supported this study and helped us to get results of better quality.

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    Hammad Al-Shammari & Chen Ling

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Al-Shammari, H., Ling, C. (2019). Investigating the Effectiveness of a Traffic Enforcement Camera-System on the Road Safety in Saudi Arabia. In: Stanton, N. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 786. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93885-1_60

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