Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA.
Traffic Inj Prev. 2012;13(1):14-23. doi: 10.1080/15389588.2011.625745.
To obtain information on attitudes and experiences related to red light camera enforcement in cities with camera programs and in Houston, Texas, where cameras were removed after voters rejected the program in November 2010.
Telephone surveys were conducted with 3111 drivers in 14 large cities (population greater than 200,000) with long-standing red light camera programs and 300 drivers in Houston, using random samples of landline and cell phone numbers in each city. For analyses combining responses from the 14 cities, cases were weighted to reflect each city's share of the total population for the 14 cities.
Among drivers in the 14 cities with red light camera programs, two thirds favor the use of cameras for red light enforcement and 42 percent strongly favor it. The chief reasons for opposing cameras were the perceptions that cameras make mistakes and that the motivation for installing them is revenue, not safety. Forty-one percent of drivers favor using cameras to enforce right-turn-on-red violations. Nearly 9 in 10 drivers were aware of the camera enforcement programs in their cities, and 59 percent of these drivers believed that the cameras have made intersections safer. Almost half know someone who received a red light camera citation, and 17 percent had received at least one ticket themselves. When compared with drivers in the 14 cities with camera programs, the percentage of drivers in Houston who strongly favored enforcement was about the same (45%), but strong opposition was higher in Houston than in the other cities (28 versus 18%).
Most drivers in cities with long-standing red light camera programs support cameras and believe that the cameras have improved safety, but communities could do a better job of educating the public about the dangers of right-turn-on-red violations and the need for enforcement. Given that camera opponents frequently said cameras make mistakes, it appears that communities also could do a better job of explaining the safeguards that ensure that citations are issued only to drivers who clearly run red lights.
获取有关在设有闯红灯摄像系统的城市（包括德克萨斯州休斯顿市，该市于 2010 年 11 月选民否决该项目后已拆除摄像系统）中人们对闯红灯摄像执法的态度和经验的信息。
在设有长期闯红灯摄像系统的 14 个大城市（人口超过 20 万）中，采用电话调查方式，对 3111 名驾驶员进行调查，并在休斯顿市对 300 名驾驶员进行调查，调查采用每个城市固定电话和移动电话的随机样本。在对 14 个城市的答复进行综合分析时，对案例进行加权处理，以反映各城市在 14 个城市总人口中的份额。
在设有闯红灯摄像系统的 14 个城市的驾驶员中，三分之二的人赞成使用摄像系统进行闯红灯执法，其中 42%的人强烈赞成。反对使用摄像系统的主要原因是认为摄像系统会出错，以及安装摄像系统的动机是为了获取收益，而不是为了安全。41%的驾驶员赞成使用摄像系统来执行红灯右转违规行为。近 9 成的驾驶员知道其所在城市的摄像系统执法项目，其中 59%的驾驶员认为摄像系统使路口更安全。几乎有一半的人认识收到过闯红灯摄像系统罚单的人，17%的人自己至少收到过一张罚单。与设有摄像系统的 14 个城市的驾驶员相比，休斯顿市强烈赞成执法的驾驶员比例大致相同（45%），但休斯顿市的强烈反对比例高于其他城市（28%对 18%）。
在设有长期闯红灯摄像系统的城市中，大多数驾驶员支持使用摄像系统，并且认为摄像系统提高了安全性，但社区可以更好地向公众宣传右转闯红灯的危害和执法的必要性。鉴于反对摄像系统的人经常表示摄像系统会出错，因此似乎社区也可以更好地解释确保仅向明显闯红灯的驾驶员开具罚单的安全保障措施。
