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CIRTES: A Complete Intelligent Road Traffic Executive Scheme
for Western Australia
Traffic management and accidents in today's world
In Western Australia, road accidents and deaths are major concerns for the Government, road users as a whole, and the wider general public. Continuing efforts to improve road conditions, and to enforce speed limits more and more rigorously, have been disappointing in their effects on the accident rate.
A sea-change is needed in tackling the problem. The approach described here under the name 'Cirtes' provides a new, detailed, practical, and affordable scheme for road traffic management, one which eliminates most of the drawbacks of the current situation.
Cirtes offers a radically new approach to maintaining speed limits, one which does not involve enforcement by the police and the courts. The scheme can be implemented progressively, starting off at a base level which should immediately yield pleasing results. It can then be refined and improved over time to provide world-class results in traffic management and accident minimization.
Above all, Cirtes uses a new, essentially voluntary approach which offers road users incentives to adopt the scheme, rather than a system of penalties enforced through the police and the courts. This approach should be readily accepted by the public, and viewed as a helpful extra facility available to road users, rather than as extra impositions and restrictions on road use.
Cirtes presents a stark decision point for Government. Governments raise large amounts of money from traffic fines. Cirtes offers potentially great reductions in traffic traumas and accident costs, without accompanying revenue raising. It is the acid test for Government, whether reduction in accidents is wanted, even if fine revenues are also reduced.
How to use this website
This is an interactive website which for best results must be used as such, rather than regarded as the equivalent of a printed document. Delegating someone else to use the site and report, as though to read through a printed document and report, will not work very well.
At the end of this web page is a button which will advance the user on to Level Two of Cirtes. In Level Two, the user is presented with a screen split into two halves, left and right.
The left screen acts as a First Summary of Cirtes, covering various points which are not elaborated at the places where they are mentioned. Instead, key words and phrases are preceded by a small blue button 
and are underlined to denote that they have expansion links. Clicking a blue button or an underlined phrase will bring up an expansion of the topic in the right screen.
After reading an expansion in the right screen, the user can progress along the Summary and, as desired, expand another topic to replace that in the right screen.
Most browers allow users to adjust the left-screen/right-screen proportions by clicking on the divider and dragging it to the left or right.
At the end of a page, large buttons and labels take the user off the current page to go forward or revert to elsewhere in the Cirtes site or off it.
Advance to Cirtes Level Two
Version 1.7
Last update 2009 Feb 16
