Queensland

From geographic aspects, Queensland with an area of 1,727,000 square kilometres, which is the second largest state in Australia.

Queensland is nearly five times the size of Japan, seven times the size of Great Britain, and two and a half times the size of Texas. Steep hills can be see nearly everywhere.In another word, topographical factors can result in over-speeding.

Queensland owns 3, 148,648 population in total which range from 16 to 64 years old in 2015. According to the research 86.3% of the households owned at least one car.

From 16 to 18 years old, about 60% people have a driver’s license, but they could not control the car well on a proper speed since they do not have enough driving experience. And there are 80% of ages 18 to 30 own their driving licenses. However, all people from age thirty to sixty hold a driver’s license.  

 All of these people are potential drivers who may drive over speed.

From psychological aspect, driving is the main transportation that Queensland people use, and most people prefer driving rather than other transportations, because most people feel that it is cheaper to drive than to use Translink. Therefore, this will increase the usage of car and potentially increasing the over speed situation.

From behavior aspect. In the first three months of 2016, 247,455 fines were issued.Which means over speeding occurs very frequently in Queensland. The number of speeding tickets issued by Queensland mobile speed cameras came in at 359,764 in 2012(59 speed related deaths), 436,080 in 2013(47 speed related deaths) and 597,959 in 2014 (65 speed related deaths). From Department of Transport and Main Road RSPAT survey (2015),64% respondents reported being most likely to speed are when overtaking another vehicle,37% driving over speed because driving down a hill or during fine conditions in daylight hours. And 35% of drivers report being likely to speed on straight roads.