These are the radars that the DGT intends to install in the coming years on our roads, and we will explain exactly how they work.
Along our roads there are hundreds of radars of various types that, in general, try to prevent many cars from exceeding the different speed limits, but the General Directorate of Traffic has a favorite type of radar and they will increase their presence during the next few months: section radars.
Maybe you know a lot about fixed radars and even on mobile radars, but perhaps you know less about the so-called section radars, radars that, according to Pere Navarro, Director of the DGT, want to increase their presence in the coming months.
In an interview with the medium Highway, has pointed out that compared to other European countries such as France, Spain has much fewer radars installed. Specifically, he talks about the fact that in Spain there are 1,300 radars compared to our neighboring country “where there are about 4000 radars operational”.
As confirmed, in the coming months will install at least 45 new section radars on our roads they are able to measure the average speed between two points.
And it is that these section radars are in charge of controlling the average speed with which a vehicle has circulated between two specific points. One of these radars is placed at the beginning of a section and the other at the end of the same section, both synchronized by fiber optics and through a satellite.
So when a vehicle begins that section, the cameras record its entrance to it and also its exit, later calculating an average of what it took to travel that distance and to find out if at any point you have been able to exceed the speed limit.
In any case, these section radars can also be merely informative and statistical and collect only information on the travel times, or analyze the average speed of the set of vehicles that pass through said section.