What is Tutor
Autostrade per l'Italia launched project development in 2004 based on an idea backed by the Italian Traffic Police and consumer associations.
Tutor is undoubtedly an integral part of drivers’ daily lives. This innovative system automatically detects the vehicle speed, and, over the years, has become an extraordinary preventive measure capable of reducing accidents. Tutor has been progressively installed along all sections characterised by above-average mortality rates, reaching the maximum extension of about 1,600 km of carriageways managed by Autostrade per l'Italia and its subsidiaries.
Tutor detects excess speed calculated by taking into account the time taken by drivers to travel on routes between two points positioned at varying distance between one another.
Project strengths
Innovative: its main function being detection of the average speed on a highway stretch, a function that is entirely novel in Italy and one of the earliest applications in Europe and around the world.
Effective: unlike traditional systems, the Tutor allows excess speed as habitual driving behaviour to be detected and is, moreover, able to operate under any weather condition and lighting conditions (at night, in the rain, in fog with visibility of up to 30/40 meters).
Fully automatic: since it identifies the vehicle class according to the various speed limits as set out by the Code and, once the violation has been identified and confirmed by a police officer, it searches the archives of the Italian department of transport to trace the owner, fills out and and prints out the report pending original signature and, at the same time, electronically forwards the data to Poste Italiane's processing and printing centre for service on the offender.
Operation
The Tutor system has been installed along routes with above average mortality rates. It is currently in operation on more than 2,500 km of lanes along the Autostrade per l'Italia Group network where a significant reduction in the average speed (-15%) and peak speed (-25%) has been recorded, resulting in a marked decrease in the number of accidents and in the consequences to people.
Following its first 12 months of operation the mortality rate fell -56% on the routes along which Tutor had been installed. Today the mortality rate along the entire network has seen a reduction of around 81,5%, also thanks to the fundamental role played by the Tutor system.
Special warning signs have been installed on all highway stretches with the Tutor system.
In collaboration with the Italian Traffic Police, we are gradually installing the Tutor system along routes with higher than average mortality rates.
Privacy policy
Autostrade per l'Italia and the consumer associations have done their utmost to ensure motorist privacy. The license plates of vehicles that comply with the speed limits are immediately deleted and, moreover, vehicles cannot be tracked through the Tutor for purposes other than speed calculation.
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