The Las Vegas City Council is scheduled to consider a contract for an advanced traffic safety analytics pilot program in response to increased serious and deadly crashes on city roadways. If the contract is approved at the May 20, 2026, City Council meeting, the pilot program would employ state-of-the-art radar and camera technology at 12 locations in Las Vegas for one year.
The pilot program is designed to help collect red-light running and speeding information as well as helping the city to understand human behavior when presented with warning signs in advance of intersections. The data will be used to help determine if traffic safety mitigation elements should be added to roadways.
The pilot will collect data on:
- Speed at selected high injury network intersections, construction and school zones
- Red-light running at selected high injury network intersections and construction zones
- Vehicle classification
The pilot will not:
- Collect any video or images including license plates, drivers, passengers or rear windshields
- Include facial recognition – biometric identification technology is prohibited in this program
- Issue citations
The system will provide city traffic engineers with information as shown in the sample below. The system does not retain any video. The system only processes what it sees and provides data.
Safety on our roadways is a persistent problem. From 2018 through 2022, the city of Las Vegas had 53,102 total crashes resulting in 249 fatalities and 747 serious injuries. That means that every seven days a person dies in a crash in Las Vegas and every two days a person is seriously injured.
Statistics also show that half of all fatality crashes involve pedestrians, bicyclists or motorcyclists. A single road safety analysis project by the RTC revealed that in a single month, the intersection of Charleston Boulevard and Valley View Drive, one of the busiest in the city, recorded 6,555 red-light violations.