Morocco to Deploy 552 Advanced Traffic Radars Nationwide for Enhanced Road Safety

Among the radars in question, there are "72 average speed control devices on the motorway network, 276 speed control devices outside urban areas, 204 devices for controlling compliance with traffic lights and speed in urban areas".

As for the speed control devices, "the Ministry specifies that they will be installed on the motorway network and will make it possible to control the average speed of vehicles on motorway sections over several kilometers", says the daily.

It goes without saying that three companies make up the Group awarded the tender launched by the Ministry of Equipment: the Moroccan Group, El Omra international (leader of the Group), the German company, Vitronic, and the Emirati company, Vitronic Middle East.

Speaking of specificity, the Ministry of Equipment indicates that the new radars are of the latest generation and therefore have more options. Indeed, in addition to "detecting offenses related to speeding and traffic lights, they can detect more than one vehicle at a time, up to 24 vehicles". Moreover, it is reported, "they have several other features, namely the detection of offenses related to the continuous line, the distinction between light vehicles and heavy goods vehicles, the possibility of operation in both directions (away-approaching) and the use of laser scanning technology".

The authority has also reassured of a judicious distribution of these radars, in order to have them throughout the regions of the Kingdom.