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A 2008 University of South Florida report f ound: Comprehensive studies conclude cameras actually increase crashes and injuries, providing a safety argument not to install them. public policy should avoid conflicts of interest that enhance revenues for government and private interests at the risk of public safety. Read a summary Full copy, 80k pdf Study author responds to criticisms A 2007 Virginia Department of Transportation study f ound: The cameras were associated with an increase in total crashes The aggregate EB results suggested that this increase was 29% The cameras were associated with an increase in the frequency of injury crashes The aggregate EB results suggested an 18% increase, although the point estimates for individual jurisdictions were substantially higher (59%, 79%, or 89% increases) or lower (6% increase or a 5% decrease). Read a summary Full copy, 1mb pdf Study author responds to criticisms A 2006 Winnipeg, Canada city audit f ound: The graph shows an increase of 58% in the number of traffic collisions from 2003 to 2004. Contrary to long-term expectations, the chart shows an increase in claims at each level of damage with the largest percentage increase appearing at the highest dollar value. Read a summary Full copy, 541k pdf A 2005 Virginia DOT study f ound: The cameras are correlated with an increase in total crashes of 8% to 17%. Read a summary Full copy, 1.7mb pdf In 2005, T he Washington Post f ound: The analysis shows that the number of crashes at locations with cameras more than doubled, from 365 collisions in 1998 to 755 last year. Injury and fatal crashes climbed 81 percent, from 144 such wrecks to 262. Broadside crashes, also known as right-angle or T-bone collisions, rose 30 percent, from 81 to 106 during that time frame. Read a summary Full article on the Post website A 2004 North Carolina A&T University study f ound: Our findings are more pessimistic, finding no change in angle accidents and large increases in rearend crashes and many other types of crashes relative to other intersections. Read a summary Full copy, 1.7mb pdf

A 2003 Ontario Ministry of Transportation study f ound: Compared to the average number of reported collisions occurring in the before period, the average yearly number of reported collisions increased 15.1 per cent in the after period. Read a summary Full copy, 1.5mb pdf A 1995 Australian Road Research Board study f ound: The results of this study suggest that the installation of the RLC at these sites did not provide any reduction in accidents, rather there has been increases in rear end and adjacent approaches accidents on a before and after basis and also by comparison with the changes in accidents at intersection signals. Read a summary Full copy, 2.4mb pdf A 1995 Monash University (Australia) study f ound: a simple correlation analysis was undertaken for red light running data in the current study and revealed no significant relationship between the frequency of crashes at RLC and non-RLC sites and differences in red light running behaviour. Read a summary Related Reports and Studies T he importance of the yellow warning signal time in reducing the instances of red light running is f ound in the f ollowing reports: A 2004 Texas Transportation Institute study f ound: An increase in yellow duration of 1.0 seconds is associated with a [crash frequency] of about 0.6, which corresponds to a 40 percent reduction in crashes. Read a summary Full copy, 1.5mb pdf A 2001 report by the Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives f ound: The changes in the yellow signal timing regulations have resulted in the inadequate yellow times. And these inadequate yellow times are the likely cause of almost 80 percent of red light entries. Full version with summary

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Houston, T X, USA 2008 RLC Study by the Rice University Center f or Civic Engagement Jef f erson Parish, LA, USA 2010 RLC Study by Tulane University School of Medicine Las Cruces, NM, USA 2010 RLC Report by the City of Las Cruces, New Mexico Los Angeles, CA, USA 2010 RLC Audit by the Controller of the City of Los Angeles, Calif ornia Lubbock, T X, USA 2008 RLC Report by the City of Lubbock, Texas City Council Modesto, CA, USA 2007 RLC Report by the City of Modesto, Calif ornia Ontario MOT, ON, CAN 2003 RLC Study by Synectics Transportation Consultants Inc. Oxnard, CA, USA 2002 RLC Study by the Insurance Institute f or Highway Saf ety Philadelphia, PA, USA 2007 RLC Study by the Insurance Institute f or Highway Saf ety Phoenix and Scottsdale, AZ , USA 2005 RLC Study by the University of Arizona Raleigh, NC, USA 2004 RLC Study by the Institute f or Transportation Research and Education North Carolina State University Regina, SK, CAN 2006 RLC Study by the City of Regina, Saskatchewan San Diego, CA, USA 2002 RLC Study by PB Farradyne Seattle, WA, USA, 2007 RLC Report by the City of Seattle, Washington Stockton, CA, USA 2007 RLC Report by the City of Stockton, Calif ornia city auditor Temple Terrace, FL, USA 2009 RLC Report by Texas DOT, T X, USA 2008 RLC Study by the Texas Transportation Institute of Texas A&M University Virginia DOT, VA, USA 2007 RLC Study by the Virginia Transportation Research Council Washington DC, USA 2005 RLC Report by the Washington Post Winnipeg, MB, CAN 2006 RLC Report by the Winnipeg Audit Department more to come ABQ http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/2010/nm-abqrlc.pdf CA State Auditor http://www.bsa.ca.gov/pdf s/reports/2001-125.pdf CHI http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/2010/il-chicagostudy.pdf COSTA MESA http://www.stpetecameras.org/home/rlc-studies IA http://www.intrans.iastate.edu/reports/rlr-phase2.pdf DE DOT http://www.deldot.gov/inf ormation/red_light/pdf s/af ter_analyses_summary.pdf FHWA 2005 http://www.f hwa.dot.gov/publications/research/saf ety/05048/ GARLAND T X (report unavailable on the web; requested copy of 06 study f rom this link http://douglasathas.net/blogs/index.php/red_report) GRAND PRARIE, AB http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/2009/can-grandeprairie.pdf GREENSBORO, NC http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/36261/1/MPRA_paper_36261.pdf HOUST ON http://images.chron.com/content/news/photos/08/12/29/RLCFullReport122908.pdf IIHS 2011 http://www.northf ieldil.org/documents/police/IIHS_Study_2-1-11.pdf JEFFERSON PARISH (attachment #1) LAS CRUCES http://las-cruces.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=198&meta_id=21735 LOS ANGELES http://controller.lacity.org/stellent/groups/electedof f icials/@ctr_contributor/documents/ contributor_web_content/lacityp_011808.pdf LUBBOCK http://lubbockonline.com/pdf s/01-10redlight.pdf MODOT 2011 http://www.modot.org/about/commission/documents/minutes/minutes_011211.pdf

MODEST O CA http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/2007/modestoreport.pdf ONTARIO CAN http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/2003-ontario.pdf OXNARD CA http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447335/ PHILADELPHIA PA http://www.stopredlightrunning.com/pdf s/ReduceRedLt_IIHS_.pdf PHOENIX/SCOT T SDALE http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/utils/getf ile/collection/statepubs/id/1246/f ilename/ 1246.pdf RALEIGH NC http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/05-raleigh.pdf REGINA SK CAN 06 http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/2006/regina.pdf SAN DIEGO 2002 http://www.its.uci.edu/its/publications/papers/IT S/UCI-IT S-WP-02-11.pdf SEAT T LE 2007 http://www.seattle.gov/police/publications/special/Red_Light_Study_07.pdf ST OCKT ON 2007 http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/2007/ca-stocktonrlc.pdf T EMPLE T ERRACE FL http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/2009/tx-templereport.pdf T EXAS DOT 2008 http://www.stopredlightrunning.com/pdf s/T O%20ADD%20Walden.T T I. Ef f ectiveness%20of %20T X%20RLCs.11.08%20.pdf VA DOT 2007 http://www.virginiadot.org/vtrc/main/online_reports/pdf /07-r2.pdf DC 2005 http://www.motorists.org/red-light-cameras/washington-post WINNIPEG MB CAN 2006 http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/2006/winnipegaudit.pdf