Automated Speed Safety Cameras
Contract Award & Next Steps
Craig Raphael – Project Manager
Department of Transportation (OakDOT )
June 10, 2025
AB 645: Speed Safety Pilot Authorization
• Authorizes local departments of transportation
(not police departments) in six cities to
establish a 5-year speed safety program
(Oakland, SF, LA, San Jose, Glendale, Long
Beach)
• The number of cameras is limited based on the
city’s population: Oakland gets 18 camera
systems
• Any funding generated from citations beyond
cost of program operations must be
reinvested into traffic calming and
spent within 3 years of collection
• Specific criteria for how to choose
camera locations (high -injury network)
AB 645 Establishes:
Speed
Penalties
11-15 MPH over: $50
16-25 MPH over: $100
26+ MPH over: $200
Type of
penalty
Civil penalty (not
moving violation)
Penalty
Issued to
Owner of vehicle (not
driver)
Warning
period
First 60 days: no-fee
warnings
Portland, OR
Washington DC
94%
Decrease in cars going >10MPH
over speed limit*
82%
Decrease in cars going >10MPH
over speed limit**
New York City
17%
Reduction in total injuries**
Chicago, IL
15%
Decrease in fatal and severe injury
crashes*
Injury ReductionsSpeed Reductions
3 Speed Safety Cameras Save Lives
*PDOT study. Defined as 11 mph or more over the speed limit based on four corridors where PBOT had speed safety cameras installed. See https://www.portland.gov/transportation/news/2023/10/5/pbot-begins-installing-new-safety- cameras-across-portland-milestone?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery **Transportation Research Board. As observed at seven sites selected randomly from 60 targeted enforcement zones in Washington DC. See
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3141/1830-05?journalCode=trra ***Hu, W., & McCartt, A. T. (2016). Effects of automated speed enforcement in Montgomery County, Maryland, on vehicle speeds, public opinion, and crashes.
Traffic Injury Prevention, 17(sup1), 53–58.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2016.1189076
*UIC Chicago. Translated into 36 fewer fatal and severe-injury crashes, 68 fewer moderate injury crashes, and 100 fewer minor-injury crashes over a two-year period. See https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/cdot/Red%20Light%20Cameras/2022/Sutton +Tilahun_Chicago-Camera-Ticket_Exec%20Summary-Final-Jan10.pdf **USDOT, ITS Joint Program Office. See https://www.itskrs.its.dot.gov/2021-b01580 ***Li, R., El-Basyouny, K., & Kim, A. (2015). Before-and-After Empirical Bayes Evaluation of Automated Mobile Speed Enforcement on Urban Arterial Roads. Transportation Research Record, 2516(1), 44-52. https://doi-org.libproxy.berkeley.edu/10.3141/2516-07 Montgomery County, MD
64%
Decrease in cars going >10MPH
over speed limit***
Edmonton, AB (Canada)
20%
Decrease in fatal and severe injury
crashes***
1 MLK Jr. Way Between 42nd and 43rd
2 Claremont Avenue Between Hillegass Avenue and
College Avenue
3 Foothill Blvd Between Irving and 24th
4 Foothill Blvd. Between 19th and 20th
5 7th St. Between Adeline St and Linden St
6 West Grand Between Chestnut and Linden
7 Broadway Between 26th and 27th St
8 San Pablo Avenue Between Athens and Sycamore
9 7th St. Between Broadway and Franklin
Streets
10 MacArthur Blvd. Between Green Acre Road and Enos
Ave
11 Fruitvale Avenue Between Galindo Street and Logan
Street
12 International Between 40th and 41st
13 Hegenberger Road Between Spencer and Hawley
14 73rd Avenue Between Fresno and Krause
15 Bancroft Ave Between 86th Ave and Auseon Ave
16 98th Avenue Between Blake Drive and Gould Street
17 98th Avenue Between Cherry and Birch
18 Bancroft Ave Between 65th and 66th
Speed Safety Camera Locations
Camera location
High injury network
1 2
10 9
8 76
5 4 3 11
12 13
14 15
18 16
17 Request for Proposals (RFP) & Evaluation Process
• RFP released on 12/24/24 and closed on 2/21/25 seeking proposals for:
• Speed Safety Cameras
• Parking Citation & Management System
• Related Solutions and Services
• Availability analysis conducted by the Department of Workforce and Employment Standards (DWES) set local business enterprise/small local business enterprise (LBE/SLBE) participation to 0% since there are no local firms that currently operate these highly specialized systems . • Two bids received for speed cameras:
• Verra Mobility : $4,860,000 for a five -year operation period (six -year contract term), or $4,500 per camera per month of operation • Elovate : $8,975,412 for a five -year operation period (six -year contract term), or $8,311 per camera per month of operation
Recommend Award to Verra Mobility
• After evaluating bids based on criteria outlined in the RFP including experience, technical specifications, oral/solution demonstration (interviews), and cost, staff are recommending Verra Mobility for the speed camera contract for $4,860,000 for a five -year operations period . • Verra operates more than 18,000 speed cameras globally, including in Washington DC and New York City. They are also the only entity currently operating speed cameras under AB 645 in San Francisco.
• Verra is teaming up with two local subcontractors:
• Urban Design Consulting Engineers, an Oakland -based registered micro - LBE with 20 years of experience, to prepare and complete design plans and drawings
• Marinship Development LLC, an African American owned LBE and MBE with offices in Oakland and San Francisco, to perform electrical and civil installation works for photo enforcement, mounting equipment, preventative maintenance, system service, and event response Resolution 82727 C.M.S. – Arizona Boycott Policy
• Verra is headquartered in Arizona, which gives rise to the City’s Arizona Boycott Policy, Resolution 82727 C.M.S., passed in 2010 in opposition to Arizona’s State Bill 1070.
• “City Departments…to the extent practicable, and in instances where this is no significant additional cost to the City or conflict with the law, to refrain from entering into any new or amended contracts…from any company that is headquartered in Arizona.”
• Given the cost of selecting the other vendor - $4.1M in additional funds which would otherwise fund transportation safety projects - as well as the highly specialized nature of this procurement, staff recommend moving forward with contract award
• Requesting a title change to the Resolution considering City Attorney guidance to strike reference to a waiver since there is no formal waiver process included in Resolution 82727 C.M.S.
Adopting the Speed Camera Impact Report
State Law Specification OakDOT Draft Impact Report
What is the purpose of the system? To enforce speed limits 24/7 at 18 locations to slow vehicle speeds
How does the system work? Fixed camera system with radar to detect speeding violations, mailed notices of violation with messaging and fines
How much will this cost, and where is the
money coming from?
$700,000 in Measure BB funds and a $2M grant from the
Alameda County Transportation Commission are funding
program startup
How will this program affect civil rights,
and how will those rights be safeguarded?
Minimal (or positive) impacts to civil rights:
• Unbiased enforcement reduces exposure to
discrimination; focus on license plate number minimizes the collection of personally identifiable information
Adopting the System Use Policy
State Law Specification OakDOT Draft System Use Policy
What data is collected? Rear license plate images for speeding vehicles only. No video or facial recognition allowed.
Who can access the data? Individuals in authorized City of Oakland job classifications and those employed by the camera
vendor (only on a need-to-know basis)
Who is the data shared with? No one outside of OakDOT (without a court order) Where is the data stored? Locally & on SAAS platform
How will data be kept secure? Logging access to ASE system data, requiring logins with MFA
How long will the data be retained? Up to 120 days to comply with AB 645 requirements AB 645
approved
-Conduct
stakeholder
outreach
-Develop
System Use
Policy & Impact
Report; present
to Privacy
Advisory
Committee
-Finalize
locations
-Release RFP
for speed
camera vendor
-Seek approval
for System Use
Policy & Impact
Report
-Determine
business
processes &
procedures
-Award RFP for
speed camera
vendor
-Approve
vendor contract
agreement
-Install
cameras and
associated
signage
-Begin public
messaging
campaign
Camera
Operations
Start
(60-day
warning
period)
Timeline and Next Steps
Slide 10Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Summer 2024 Summer 2025 Before end of 2025
WE
ARE
HERE
Proposed Council Action
Adopt A Resolution Authorizing The City Administrator To:
• Enter Into A Professional Services Agreement With Verra Mobility To Implement And Operate A Speed Safety Camera System Under Assembly Bill 645 For A Six-Year Term Supporting Five Years Of Camera Operations In An Amount Not To Exceed Four Million, Eight-Hundred Sixty-Five Thousand Dollars ($4,865,000);
• Adopt The Speed Camera Use Policy And Impact Report;
• Waiving The Arizona Boycott Policy, Resolution 82727 C.M.S.; • And Adopting Appropriate California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Findings
Propose striking this language
based on guidance from City
Attorney. Justification for
contract award remains the
same.
THANK YOU! For updates, please visit:
OAKLANDCA.GOV/speedcameras
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