The De­mer­it Point Sys­tem for traf­fic vi­o­la­tions would be on stream in just over a month, Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan an­nounced yes­ter­day at the launch of the “U-turn Sys­tem” at the Hy­att Re­gency Ball­room.

The new sys­tem will al­low the au­thor­i­ties to pick up on ha­bit­u­al of­fend­ers of traf­fic laws and have their li­cens­es sus­pend­ed.

It will be im­ple­ment­ed from March 2 along with Traf­fic Tick­et­ing (Fixed Penal­ty) No­tices and Red Light En­force­ment sys­tems in­tro­duced in the re­vised Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic Act.

The new fixed penal­ty sys­tem al­lows for the shar­ing of re­al-time in­for­ma­tion shar­ing via dig­i­tal de­vices, while the Red Light En­force­ment Sys­tem will pick up on mo­torists who vi­o­late the red light.

These ini­tia­tives are de­signed to im­prove com­pli­ance on the na­tion’s roads and save lives.

The ma­jor­i­ty of ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dents and road fa­tal­i­ties in T&T are the re­sult of speed­ing.

Not in­clud­ed in yes­ter­day’s launch, how­ev­er, was the Spot Speed Cam­era Sys­tem which will de­tect dri­vers who break the speed lim­it.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi said leg­is­la­tion on the sys­tem is cur­rent­ly be­fore Par­lia­ment and should be dealt with with­in a month.

Sinanan lat­er ex­plained: “We will go live with what­ev­er we can go live with. It’s a process we would con­tin­ue to roll out . . . over the next cou­ple of months. You will see every­thing be­ing rolled out.”

Al-Rawi said the cam­era sys­tems will aid in the fight against crime.

“It means that with RF tags, with spot speed cam­eras, we now have dig­i­tal ev­i­dence of num­ber plate, own­er, lo­ca­tion, time and there­fore ev­i­dence in a court of law,” he said.

Ar­rive Alive founder Sharon In­gle­field urged stake­hold­ers to do their part for the sys­tem to have its in­tend­ed im­pact of re­duc­ing road traf­fic ac­ci­dents and fa­tal­i­ties. She al­so em­pha­sized the im­por­tance of the Spot Speed cam­eras, adding that sys­tems must be prop­er­ly main­tained and of­fi­cers is­sued with enough fixed penal­ty ma­chines.

Sinanan said in the com­ing months some fa­cil­i­ties will come on stream as part of the pro­gramme, in­clud­ing a mo­bile bus ser­vice to take li­cens­ing ser­vices in­to rur­al com­mu­ni­ties, a dis­abled-ac­ces­si­ble park­ing sys­tem, es­tab­lish­ment of a clear reg­u­la­to­ry frame­work for ve­hi­cle tints, RFID li­cense plates and dru­gal­iz­ers.

Fur­ther in­for­ma­tion on the new sys­tems can be found on the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port’s var­i­ous on­line plat­forms.