CAMEA WIM Helping Road Protection in Kenya
With more than 30 WIM stations installed, Kenya is the leader in axle load control in East Africa. It is the first country in the region to implement the Weigh-In-Motion technology countrywide as the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) took up the onerous journey of automating weighbridges and monitoring them in a single data center.
Virtual Weighbridges and SMS Enforcement
Some of these CAMEA WIM stations are used for pre-selecting potentially overloaded vehicles and capturing those who evade the screening lane. But more than 20 stations are the so-called Virtual Weighbridges - automatic free-flow unmanned systems. These were type approved by the National Weights and Measures Laboratory of the Weights and Measures Department of Kenya and are used to generate tickets for enforcing the overloaded vehicles. Currently, this is being done using mobile or static weighbridges but is planned to be replaced with instant fining through Short Message Service (SMS).
- IMPACT: THE INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF VIRTUAL AND STATIC STATIONS HAS LED TO A DRAMATIC REDUCTION IN OVERLOADING INCIDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Impact and Regional Benchmarking
As recently presented by KeNHA at a workshop organized by the Czech Transport Research Centre (CDV) during the World Road Conference in Prague, the drop in offences was significant and there are elevated levels of compliance across the country with other African countries coming to Kenya for benchmarking.