Development of guidelines for monitoring routine enforcement. The "Escape" Project, Working Paper 12. Project funded by the European Commission under the Transport RTD Programme of the 4th Framework Programme.

The aim of this study was to provide the background for the development of guidelines for monitoring routine police enforcement based on practical measures of non-compliance in driver behaviour and other available data, and to sum up the findings in the form of a reasonable set of instructions for application. The main enforcement areas of interest were the areas of alcohol-impaired driving, speeding, use of seat belts, in which there is an extensive experience of assessment work, and also, when available, a relevant summary of methods was provided for other enforcement areas (e.g. red-light running, sign compliance). More standardised methods for monitoring enforcement in the EU are supposed to contribute to better enforcement management, to enable sounder comparisons across countries and between various enforcement strategies and tactics, and reduced costs of future investigations. The present study included: An overview of practices accepted for evaluating police enforcement in different European countries (with the help of a questionnaire distributed among the police commanders and relevant experts); A review of regular surveys for the systematic evaluation of road user behaviour, which are available in European and other countries; Drawing out relevant methods and tools for monitoring police enforcement, which were developed in specific enforcement projects, based on a recent literature review; Summarising up-to-date monitoring techniques for the main enforcement areas. (Author/publisher) For an overview off all working papers and deliverables of the ESCAPE project, see http://virtual.vtt.fi/virtual/proj6/escape/deliver.ht