BTI
VIDEO ENFORCEMENT
SERVICE
Video Enforcement Saves Lives, by
encouraging drivers to avoid the $250 Fine.
BTI Video Enforcement
Demonstration
At
the BNSF RR and Fairview Avenue in Downers Grove, Illinois
ü Dramatic
improvement to your railroad crossing safety.
ü 92% decrease in violations according to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).
ü No
capital investment from your municipality to improve safety.
ü FRA
Approved for Railroad Quiet Zone Qualification. (Quiet Zone is a section of
track where Trains are not required to blow their horns at the crossings)
ü Quiet
Zone Qualification increases your property values.
ü Can
assist in compliance with new FRA Quiet Zone regulations.
ü Generates
revenue for your municipality.
(In Illinois, each citation for a violation
is a $250 fine)
ü Allows
redeployment of police assets to other duties.
B T I Bridge Technology,
Inc.
1385 Warren Avenue Downers Grove, IL 60515 Phone (630) 852-4200 Fax (630) 852-2037 www.btix.org
The railroads, elected officials, municipal police, legal experts and local citizens are all endorsing the BTI Video Enforcement Service at railroad crossings. In order to gain the endorsements, we eliminated the following barriers to the deployment of video enforcement:
· BTI eliminates public funding requirements by deploying our service at zero capital cost to your municipality. The BTI Video Enforcement Service Fee is paid to BTI by your municipality from actual fine collections from violators at your crossings.
· BTI eliminates legal issues by providing a live witness and complying with existing laws.
· BTI eliminates the training and staffing of your local police department by monitoring your rail crossings, producing the citation and recording video and photo evidence at the BTI Video Monitoring Center (VMC) with BTI authorized personnell.
· BTI eliminates all the financial barriers to your municipality by supplying, installing, operating, monitoring and maintaining the PROSCAN Video Enforcement System equipment for your municipality as part of the BTI Video Enforcement Service.
ü
Your municipality can pay for our service from the revenue
generated by violators ($250 per violation).
ü Zero Capital
cost is required from your municipality to begin service.
Here is how it works:
Drivers disobey
warning lights and gates as train approaches.
Meanwhile; back
at BTI’s new Video Monitoring Center (VMC, shown below) located next to the
BNSF RR Tracks in Downers Grove, IL one of our authorized personnel monitors
and records video and photo images in order to produce a $250 citation against
each driver. Your Municipality then
prosecutes the moving violation.
BTI’s VMC layout (above) features the authorized personnel monitoring
stations to the left of the
conference room located in the center.
Windows provide visitors a view of the
monitors from the VMC conference room.
(Source: Illinois Commerce
Commission)
This partial map
of Downers Grove marks six crossings along the BNSF Railroad. The crossing furthest to the east (right) is
Fairview Avenue, which is equipped with BTI cameras and sensors for video
enforcement demonstration. BTI’s VMC is
located 1.4 miles to the west (left) on the north side of the tracks at 1385
Warren Avenue.
BTI is so passionate about Video Enforcement because it is proven to greatly enhance safety. According to the Federal Railroad Administration, video enforcement leads to a 92% reduction in violations at railroad crossings. BTI discourages violations at crossings by videotaping drivers who violate railroad crossing laws, and then sending them a $250 ticket. Decreasing the number of violations increases safety.
BTI is the exclusive distributor of the PROSCAN Video Enforcement
System. PROSCAN Video Enforcement
Systems are completely wireless, more accurate and easier
to install than competing technologies.
PROSCAN
Video Enforcement Systems do not require a great deal of
infrastructure improvements; no connection at all to the railroad safety
equipment, no cutting the street for loop detectors, and no tunneling for
electrical pipes under the railroad tracks.
In fact, zero coordination or approval from the railroad is required for
most locations.
Why Choose BTI?
1. YOUR COMMUNITY BENEFITS
· Huge Increase in Safety – Video Enforcement Saves Lives, by encouraging drivers to avoid the $250 fine.
· Quiet Zone – Increases property values and quality of life near operating railroad tracks.
· Revenue for Your Municipality – Each Violation will result in a $250 citation. Most of the large traffic volume crossings BTI will propose to deploy our service will have in excess of 400 violations in the first month. On average, the total number of violations will drop by 90% within two years. As the number of violators drops, the fee for BTI monitoring and citation production drops. The monthly citation revenue distribution is as follows: Your municipality keeps the first $2,000 each month; BTI is paid up to the next $18,000 each month; and your municipality keeps everything over $20,000.
2. EASE OF ADOPTION (Purchase Decision)
· Zero Capital Cost to Your Municipality for BTI to begin installation, operation and monitoring. All payments to BTI come only from revenue generated by citations.
· Minimal Local Police Involvement
· “Turn Key” Approach
3. PROVEN RESULTS (Safety, Prosecution, and Collection Issues)
·
Zero Accidents/Deaths at Crossings with Video
Enforcement
· River Road Naperville, IL June 2000 350 Violators
(Similar system) June 2002 45 Violators
Presently 40 Violators per month
·
BTI operating at Fairview Ave. Downers Grove, IL
- Approx. 400 violators at $250 per violation projected in
first month.
B T I Bridge Technology, Inc.
1385 Warren Avenue Downers Grove, IL 60515 Phone (630) 852-4200 Fax (630) 852-2037 www.btix.org