Close Following Rule

Owned by Charlotte Dakin-Norris
Last updated: Jan 15, 2024
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Introduction

This page covers how to configure a Close Following Rule which includes a video demonstrating the process. Typically, this rule can be used to alert you if a vehicle is travelling too closely behind another.

Close following rules are used to analyse each track in turn. Like all other rules, this will raise an alarm for a section, but the rule will look at each track individually to identify if it has broken the rule.

Contents

Configuration

To configure a Close Following Rule:

  1. Select the carriageway and click on the Actions button:

     

  2. Select Rules:

     

  3. On the Configure Rules window select New:

     

  4. Select Close Following from the drop down list:

     

  5. Then click Create Rule:

     

  6. The default rule settings can then be adjusted as desired. In the example below the Severity and Alarm Priority were changed:

     

  7. On the Advanced tab the Classification filters were changed to select the carriageway vehicles:

     

  8. On the Sections tab add the sections where you want to detect and enforce the close following rule - for example, a section which has a camera configured to capture the rule being broken, and then click Save:

     

  9. The new rule is now displayed in the Configure Rules window:

Video

The following video demonstrates how to configure a Close Following Rule and what happens when the rule is broken:

Safety is everything.