Do you think we have a lot of speed cameras? Think again

It is easy to feel that we have too many static cameras. But, really, we’ve got it pretty easy.

According to new research from Direct budget, New Zealand has a fairly low ratio of speed cameras per 100 km of road compared to most of the rest of the world.

Direct budget used data from The global speed camera database and other sources to determine the number of radars per 100 km in each country. He then calculated the numbers to identify the city with the highest density of speed cameras in each country. By this, it looks like Lower Hutt City has the highest density in New Zealand.

That’s still pretty low in the scheme of things, with 0.61 cameras per 100 km (although there are only four cameras), comfortably less than Australia’s densest city, Wollongong, which has 1.84 cameras per 100 km.

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For comparison, Auckland has 51 radars with a density of 0.53 cameras per 100 km and Wellington has 0.40 cameras per 100 km, also with four cameras, according to the report.

Interestingly, the country with the most speed cameras is Brazil, with 18,239 – however, it still only has 0.62 speed cameras per 100 km.

On the other side, Anyang doesn’t have a lot of roads, but the South Korean city still averages 46.1 cameras every 100 km (or one camera every 2.17 km) – the densest in the world. . South Korea also has an exemplary road safety profile, reducing the annual number of child deaths on the roads by 97% between 1992 and 2014. Coincidence?

The only other place with comparable density is Moscow with 41.86 cameras per 100 km. Moscow and Anyang are becoming “smart” cities, with a lot of high-tech infrastructure implemented as they grow.

Looking by country rather than city, Andorra has the highest density with 7.88 cameras per 100 km, despite only 457 km of road and 36 speed cameras. New Zealand has 0.07 cameras per 100 km and Australia has 0.15.

As for Asia and Oceania, South Korea has the highest camera density in the world, with 7.36 cameras per 100 km. Sixteen of the top 20 cities in the study are in South Korea, out of a total of 1,325 cities.

Australia has the second highest number of cameras (1,379) in the region, after South Korea (13,457). But the camera density in Australia is only 0.147 (sixth in the region).

Australian cameras are spread over a 937,978 km network, so Australians could theoretically expect to see a camera every 680 km or so. But in reality, the density of the camera depends on where you are in the country.

Wollongong is best for security advocates but worst for those with a propensity for speed, with a camera density of 1.84 per 100 km on 1,518 km of roads. This is about 61 times the density of Australia’s least camera dense city – Gympie, Queensland, with a density of 0.03.