CorporationScanning LIDAR to safeguard the roads in Montgomery County

Conduent will in future use scanning LIDAR-based speed enforcement technology from VITRONIC to improve the safety of the roads in Montgomery County in the U.S. state of Maryland. Conduent is a leading global provider of automated transportation solutions. The project is to be implemented from the end of September 2022 and involves the installation of 90 POLISCAN FM1 systems, which offer both speed measurement and automatic license plate recognition (ALPR). VITRONIC is also supplying eleven Compact City Housing systems with a working height of three meters, which makes them ideal for sites where space is of the essence.

Conduent has entered into a ten-year operator contract with Montgomery County. The new VITRONIC systems will replace existing radar based speed enforcement systems with scanning LIDAR-based systems. In addition to speed measurement, the systems are also able to recognize license plates. This enables the county’s law enforcement authorities to precisely determine which vehicles are driving around their territory. In this context, ALPR is extremely useful for identifying stolen vehicles, checking that vehicle tax and insurance have been paid and finding cars for which alerts have been issued.

Even back in 2016, an IIHS study proved that the Montgomery County’s speed enforcement program had significantly reduced the number of offenses. For example, the probability of vehicles in the enforcement areas exceeding the maximum speed by more than ten mph fell by 62 percent. The risk of accidents involving serious injury and death was also reduced by 39 percent.