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INDOT director says Safe Zones automated enforcement pilot reduced speeds at enforcement points
Summary
John McGregor of INDOT described the Safe Zones work-zone automated enforcement pilot (HEA 1015), saying the program recorded hundreds of thousands of events, produces a civil-notice structure (warning then $75/$150), and that Purdue research shows substantial reductions at enforcement points and across worksites.
John McGregor, Director of Traffic Operations at INDOT, described the Safe Zones automated enforcement pilot and its goals: slow vehicles, protect workers and reduce crashes.
McGregor said the statute (HEA 1015, effective 07/01/2023) created a five-year pilot that INDOT built rapidly, starting testing in August 2024 and beginning fines on 05/05/2025. He stressed the program aims at safety "not in this for the money" and that penalties are civil rather than criminal: the first event is a warning, the second notice carries a $75 fine and subsequent notices rise to $150.
On program scale and adjudication, McGregor said a 2025 query returned roughly 823,000 events and about 250,000 first notices; many events are set aside when the vendor or INDOT cannot sufficiently identify a vehicle owner or evidence is unclear. McGregor described a vendor and an internal evidence and adjudication pipeline and emphasized a "no false positives" metric.
McGregor shared evaluation findings, drawing on Purdue Joint Transportation Research Program work: some enforcement points showed near-complete reductions in enforceable speeding at the point of enforcement, and across worksites INDOT saw passenger-car speeds reduced by ~34% and commercial trucks by ~41% in sample before/after snapshots. He noted the program includes signage and active deployment practices intended to maximize compliance.
