NSW Chapter Seminar: Driver Distraction and camera-detected enforcement of mobile phone use

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This seminar provided insights into innovative work being undertaken to address driver distraction, and the impact the
NSW introduced camera system detecting mobile phone use by drivers is having or expected to have on road trauma and driver behaviour.

Bernard Carlon from the Centres for Road Safety and Maritime Safety provided an overview of the:
• driver distraction problem
• trial of camera systems to detect drivers using mobile phones
• policy development process
• legislative changes
• chain of evidence to ensure the infringements are able to be upheld in court
• implementation
• pros and cons of covert vs overt and fixed vs mobile enforcement operations
• evaluation/s of the impact of the system on road trauma and/or driver behaviour
• lessons learnt
• future directions

Alexander Jannink from Acusensus talked about:
• how the Acusensus camera system was developed
• how the technology works
• future directions for camera-based road safety technologies

Bernard Carlon: 
Bernard Carlon is the Executive Director, Centres for Road
Safety and Maritime Safety in Transport for NSW. Bernard
joined Transport for NSW in 2012 as the Director, Strategy
and Policy and has led the Centre for Road Safety since
2015 and Maritime Safety since 2016. He is a board
member of ANCAP and a member of the Austroads
National Road Safety Taskforce. Bernard has held senior
state government roles in policy, regulation,
communications and program delivery across the Health,
Justice, Environment and Transport portfolios. He is
charged with leading the Road Safety and Maritime Safety
Strategy’s to move the trauma on our roads and waterways
Towards Zero.

Alexander Jannink: 
Alexander Jannink is a passionate advocate for road
safety, focusing on interventions that improve road user
behaviour. He is Managing Director of Acusensus, an
innovative road safety technology provider which
delivered the world-first distracted driving enforcement
camera solution deployed by the government of NSW
Australia – ‘Acusensus Heads-Up’. Prior to founding
Acusensus, Alexander was Head of Research &
Development for Redflex Traffic Systems and has
developed camera enforcement and collision prevention
technology that has been deployed in over 30 countries.