“How Section Radars Work: Signaling Controlled Speed on Highways and Roads – Tips from DGT”

The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) forecasts 44 million trips for the entire month of July. That is why summer is the period in which Traffic makes the most effort to maintain safety on the roads. These days alert on their social networks of the radars that will be controlling the roads to ensure that speed limits are respected. Among them, Traffic wanted to highlight the section radars.

What are speed cameras and how do they work?

Section radars have been operational since 2010, they are installed on highways, dual carriageways and conventional roads and can be several kilometers long.

To warn drivers of the proximity of a section of controlled speed, it is signaled in advance with the corresponding panel.

Actually they are not ‘radars’ proper, like cinemometers. It is a system of cameras that record continuously, the license plate of each vehicle is identified at the entrance and exit of the stage. A computer relates the identical license plates, checks the passing times and calculates the average speed of the vehicle.

When the average speed of the course is below the limit, there is no violation. But if the average speed of the journey exceeds the limit, the complaint of the infraction is processed.