Australian Standards

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What are Australian Standards?

Standards are documents setting out specifications, procedures and guidelines. They are designed to ensure products, services and systems are safe, reliable and consistent. They are based on industrial, scientific and consumer experience and are regularly reviewed to ensure they keep pace with new technologies.  Australian Standards cover everything from consumer products and services, construction, engineering, business, information technology, human services to energy and water utilities, the environment and much more

 

 

 

 

 

ROAD SAFETY (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 2019 (SR NO 88 OF 2019) - REG 35

Testing of fixed digital RSC

For the purposes of sections 81, 83A (1) and 84(7) of the Act, the prescribed manner of testing a fixed digital RSC is that a testing officer who tests the speed calculation unit of the fixed digital RSC—

(a)     is satisfied that the speed calculation unit is in a satisfactory operating condition and, in particular, that any maintenance carried out on the speed calculation unit has been carried out in a satisfactory manner; and

(b)     is satisfied that the speed calculation unit is properly calibrated so that it indicates speed readings within a limit of error not greater than or less than 2 kilometres per hour or 2 per cent (whichever is greater) of the true speeds.

 

 

 

ROAD SAFETY (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 2019 (SR NO 88 OF 2019) - REG 38

Testing of mobile digital RSC

For the purposes of sections 81, 83A (1) and 84(7) of the Act, the prescribed manner of testing a mobile digital RSC is that a testing officer who tests the speed calculation unit of the mobile digital RSC—

(a)     is satisfied that the speed calculation unit is in a satisfactory operating condition and, in particular, that any maintenance carried out on the speed calculation unit has been carried out in a satisfactory manner; and

(b)     is satisfied that the speed calculation unit is properly calibrated so that it indicates speed readings within a limit of error not greater than or less than 3 kilometres per hour or 3 per cent (whichever is greater) of the true speeds.

 

ROAD SAFETY (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 2019 (SR NO 88 OF 2019) - REG 42

Testing of speed detectors

For the purposes of section 79 of the Act, the prescribed manner of testing a speed detector is that the testing officer who tests the device—

(a)     is satisfied that the device is in a satisfactory electrical condition; and

(b)     is satisfied that the device is properly calibrated so that it indicates the speed readings within a limit of error not greater or less than 2 km per hour of the true speeds.

 

 

ROAD SAFETY (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 2019 (SR NO 88 OF 2019) - REG 45

Use of laser devices

For the purposes of section 79 of the Act, the prescribed manner of use of a laser device is that—

(a)     the operator ensures that all elements of the speed display are illuminated; and

(b)     the operator activates the device with the device aimed in the direction of a motor vehicle within the operator's field of vision and observes the reading displayed on the digital speed display; and

(c)     the device has been tested in accordance with regulation 42 within 12 months before the occasion of its use; and

(d)     the device has been sealed in accordance with regulation 43 at the time that it was last tested.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Advantages of lidar over radar

Radar has wide signal beam divergence, so that an individual vehicle cannot be targeted, requiring significant operator skill, training and certification in order to visually estimate speed so as to locate an offender in a traffic stream, and offenders may use the defence that some other vehicle was offending. Radar will register the speed of any object in its field, for example a tree swaying or an airplane passing overhead.

Lidar has a narrow beam, and easily targets an individual vehicle, thereby eliminating the need for visual estimation, and some models can record an image of the license plate at the same instant as recording the speed violation. Speed estimation takes less than half a second, which, together with the narrow, targeted beam, results in offending vehicles having little warning even when using an evasion device. Lidar can measure the distance between vehicles to detect 'too close' (tailgating) infringements. The speed of a vehicle occluded (hidden behind) another vehicle cannot be measured.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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