How Not To Get Under Video Fixation?

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No one was counting on revelations, but let's try to find a hint in answers to questions about the properties of devices.

How do cameras work and how sensitive are they?

- They begin to record speeding from 500 meters in four lanes at the same time. Those that “specialize” in intruders entering dedicated lanes are 250 meters away. "They are shooting" towards the movement or photographing "rear view". But it is not enough to remember the permanent locations of stationary equipment - portable works on the streets.

Optics has excellent resolution, reads numbers on license plates accurately. I can call witnesses to those millions of car owners who have already received envelopes in the mail with photographs confirming the validity of fines.

And in the night shots, are the digits distinguishable?

- With the onset of twilight, the infrared “backlight” turns on or, if it is an imported device, the flash fires. There are many of them in the Moscow region.

By the end of the year, there will be 450 stationary fixation devices in the capital. In addition to what they can now, they detect speeding, exit and parking in public transport lanes, we “train” the cameras to fix the exit at a busy intersection, the red traffic light and the passage under a “brick”. By the end of the year, we will introduce the complexes into regular operation.

Video recording in Moscow

Head of the Moscow Center for Traffic Management Igor Korolev. Head of the Moscow Center for Traffic Management Igor Korolev.

- Probably not enough for all the “bricks” of electronic “eyes” …

- So far, we are installing them at critical points (which we choose according to the analysis of accident statistics) and places where violators most often ignore travel bans, which complicate traffic on key streets. We are gradually building up the “ muscles ”.

“But photography is not enough to prove going to the intersection and under the brick …”

- Of course, we apply video shooting. Same as when fixing machines on dedicated lanes. Along the way, I note that “ repressions ” in relation to violators give a result: according to the statistics of Mosgortrans, trips to allotments are becoming less and less.

There are a lot of cars with non-resident license plates in the capital, and many more with Belarusian, Latvian, Moldavian … Someone from the capital’s residents is registering vehicles outside, or even abroad. And if, having violated the rules, they fall into the photofixation zone, the computer does not recognize who the owner is - there is no one to send the penalty order and no one to punish. Many have learned this: whole sections on sales by proxy of a car with non-Russian license plates are already being formed on the announcement sites, a stable wording has appeared in them: “For non-citizens of the Russian Federation” …

- It's for the time being, for the time being. We have already dealt with non-Moscow Russian cars. Using the federal information base of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, we send violators a notification in the regions at the place of residence of the owners.

It is more difficult with foreigners. But we are already creating a “ catalog ” of differences in the images of state signs, we are creating the corresponding computer recognition program. The information base of the Federal Customs Service on the entry of vehicles into the Russian Federation will be constantly introduced. We are establishing coordination with the bailiff service - so that with their help every penalty is paid.

Video recording in Moscow

Video recording in Moscow

Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia … All flags to visit us. Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia … All flags to visit us.

But are there any legislative grounds for collecting fines from foreigners?

- We did not manage to adjust the legal mechanism: foreign violators are a new phenomenon for us. However, there are already draft bills. I think by the middle of next year the system will work.

Distract from the interview:

A remarkable side effect of ITS, the intellectual transport system of Moscow, was manifested. Using the Parkon mobile video cameras, police officers found a number of stolen cars, as well as cars in which criminals fled the scene - and the police have already made arrests.

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And with the help of surveillance cameras in bus salons (they are also part of ITS), they identified and detained brawlers and other law-breakers. This was reported in the letter of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the stamp “For official use”, therefore we are not entitled to show the text to readers.

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Can drivers count on the fact that in front of the fixation points of their speed, as in Europe, the sign “Video surveillance” is sure to warn? According to our own observations, now they are far from everywhere. Are there no strict regulations on this?

- They are not in any normative act, including traffic rules. Moreover, the Gostovsky sign does not exist. Anyway, bye. Another thing, everyone remembers that in the spring the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Russian Federation held a competition for the best image of the “Video surveillance” sign. The option is selected, and I hope that soon the sign will be added to the traffic rules. Nevertheless, in Moscow there are already a lot of them - on the Moscow Ring Road, the Third Transport Ring, the main highways …

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It was this sketch that gained the most votes in the competition. A third of almost 125 thousand “judges” voted for him. However, the question is natural (not to the data center, but to the traffic police of the Russian Federation): why is it still not a sign included in the list of traffic rules? After all, the results of the competition were announced back in mid-April. It was this sketch that gained the most votes in the competition. A third of almost 125 thousand “judges” voted for him. However, the question is natural (not to the data center, but to the traffic police of the Russian Federation): why is it still not a sign included in the list of traffic rules? After all, the results of the competition were announced back in mid-April.

“But there is a kind of ambush here.” Recently I watched an online broadcast from a video recording camera installed on Marshal Zhukov Avenue: almost all the cars on the monitor are framed by red squares - that is, they exceed speed (those that are in green are respected. - Ed.). Every minute hundreds of two cars pass through this segment, if not more, and, of course, all their owners will be fined …

Zhukov Avenue for a long distance is a first-class highway: 5-6 lanes in each direction, chippers, multi-level interchanges, acceleration lanes, not a single traffic light … The road itself pushes to pick up speed. However, the established mode is 60 km / h. Why make people trudge where you can go fast?.. If there is a sign on any pillar, you will notice it from the first, at best, from the second row. And unconditionally noticeable signs about video control should hang, above each lane, next to it - repeating stop signs with the indication "60" …

According to common sense, would it be necessary to revise city roads, signs of speed limits - and bring them into line with one another?

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- Believe me, I know the city’s roads not only according to the schemes. I am a Muscovite motorist, driving like everyone else on the same streets. Moreover, Zhukov Avenue, Zvenigorodskoye Shosse are part of the route on which I have the good fortune to travel almost every day. But I am an informed official and I must inform: this road is a hotbed of high accident rate, especially insidious in the fall, winter and spring, and extremely dangerous on the Picturesque Bridge, where insidious ice forms.

As for common sense … In comfortable countries, the logic of which we often and reasonably refer to, there is a tendency to reduce speeds in cities to 50, and sometimes 40 km / h, regardless of the arrangement of the streets (and there it’s better, unlike ours). At the heart of this sanity lies the challenge of improving people's safety. What could be more logical!

Another consideration. Inside the city, speeds must be balanced - everywhere. In Moscow, the so-called pendulum movement: in the morning - from the outskirts to the center, in the evening - in the opposite direction. If during the rush hour on the highways to disperse the masses of cars with a shock wave, they will inevitably run into traffic jams on streets with worse throughput. What happens on the same Zhukov Avenue, where it rests against the Third Transport Ring.

Drivers will have to accept a new reality: along the street where they used to race a hundred, now they must drive 60, or even 50 - and only then get to point B half an hour or an hour earlier. Hence the task of the intelligent transport system: to make the whole city move, relatively speaking, uniformly, by means of regulation, to optimize the movement of flows, so that the traffic capacity of the streets is used by 90% - then the cars will go. I warn the question: 100% are already traffic jams.

And the psychological effect that everyone experienced on themselves and which, when establishing speed modes, cannot be ignored. After “flying” through a section with authorized 80 km / h (and in fact everyone drives even faster), a person driving, turning to an adjoining street with a limit of 40 km / h, loses the perception of real speed and moves faster than it seems. When a pedestrian appears in front of the hood, the driver may react instantly and press the brake pedal all the way, but the car will inertia stop late … From statistics: most of the collisions with people are in pedestrian crossings in Moscow.

Video recording in Moscow

Standard measures of influence on the reckless do not bring results. Maybe resort to the extraordinary, as, for example, did in Nizhnekamsk. passed a flash mob initiated by the local traffic police. In such an extraordinary way, traffic inspectors reminded reminded drivers of the need to comply with the high-speed mode in the city. (photo http://lj42.ru/) Standard measures of influence on the scorcher do not bring results. Maybe resort to the extraordinary, as, for example, did in Nizhnekamsk. passed a flash mob initiated by the local traffic police. In such an extraordinary way, traffic inspectors reminded reminded drivers of the need to comply with the high-speed mode in the city. (photo

These considerations do not lead to the conclusion that a total limit of 40 km / h is necessary. We continue research and introduce speed modes after “running” offers through model tests: what to expect if one street is “slowed down” by 10 km / h and the other is “accelerated”, will it become “easier to breathe” with reverse movement, where to set or dismantle the chippers …

I’ll immediately dispel the philistine: supposedly tightening of traffic regimes is a means to raise fees from fines in order to make the city budget rich. Such a task is not worth it - we want to rid the city of traffic jams.

Moscow is huge, how do you manage to study speeds everywhere?

- Over the past couple of years, almost 3.8 thousand detectors - radar devices have been installed. They not only passively record the speed, intensity, composition of flows, but it is also an instrument of operational regulation. Say, on the Moscow Ring Road, detectors are mounted every 300 meters. Having seen with their help that at some point the flow has become denser, say, due to an accident, we take control of the traffic lights manually. For example, from the streets adjacent to this section of the circular, we restrict the influx of transport. If you do nothing, with an accident on the Moscow Ring Road for every five minutes, the “tail” grows by 300-400 meters.

The equipment of the intelligent transport system is also controllers, teleinstallations … And adaptive systems. This is a separate song: they are able to independently observe and study the situation (using detectors), accumulate experience, issue optimization commands. But their implementation is a serious engineering task. Electronic "brains" at first can even worsen the situation. Look, at a complicated intersection, traffic jams form in all directions. The “beginner” adaptive system selects a solution from those that it has managed to accumulate. And since there is not enough “experience”, you can see that the algorithm, in her “opinion”, will apply the best, but in fact not optimal. And it will give out “bad” commands to traffic lights … Will become more skilled - it will cope, but so far experts are catching her mistakes.

Video recording in Moscow

“Letters of happiness” … Bales, mountains of happiness daily accumulate on several tables in the building of the Moscow State Traffic Safety Inspectorate. Our cops are not any Gobsians - they generously share with millions. “Letters of happiness” … Bales, mountains of happiness daily accumulate on several tables in the building of the Moscow State Traffic Safety Inspectorate. Our cops are not any Gobsians - they generously share with millions.

Do you need to understand that there is nothing to thank the drivers for? Or is there?

- Few felt that it was a little better. According to monitoring, in a number of areas, traffic congestion in the city was reduced by 10-15 minutes, the total savings of working and free time of citizens amounted to billions of human hours … But drivers keep track of their own way: where on the weekend I spend half an hour on the road, on weekdays - two and a half. And 10-15 minutes of saving is nothing.

Here in a single Zvenigorod, the situation has changed significantly. The prefect thanked: after the introduction of video monitoring, vehicle delays decreased by about 20%, the number of accidents fell sharply, the severity of the consequences went down and there were practically no deaths. The prefect asked us to continue the program … We are not mistaken at our own expense: Zvenigorod is a small compact entity, it is so arranged that it is relatively easy to establish order on the roads in it.

But after all, the system did not work at full capacity. There is no universal recipe for all intersections and streets of the big Moscow, but they did not manage to compose for each individually. Returning, for example, to Marshal Zhukov, I can assume that it is impossible to permit speeds here as on highways, but I do not exclude that it will be allowed to accelerate faster on weekends on the avenue. Signs with changing signs will be notified.

Can we hope that in the foreseeable future automobile Moscow will nevertheless “fly”?

- Rather, this will never happen. But "go" should.

Video recording in Moscow

At the weekend, when everyone is still sleeping, go to the city: you will fall into the dream of flying Moscow. At the weekend, when everyone is still sleeping, go to the city: you will fall into the dream of flying Moscow.

In addition to the main topic of the interview, is it possible to avoid the attention of video recording cameras. Estimate yourself …

The amount of fines drawn up since the start of the system was approaching 3 million, that is, almost every second motorist in the capital was already punished. But if by the end of this year, as our interlocutor said, there will be 450 cameras, then by the end of 2013 - at least 800. Make your own conclusion.