On Track & On Target | The right speed for the road: Quartix pitches in.
Vehicle tracking company Quartix has developed a new method of assessing safe road speeds for more accurate identification of riskier driving styles.
Exactly how fast is it safe to travel on any given stretch of road? Remarkably, there seems to be little information out there on this subject. Speed limits tell you how fast it is legal to drive; but it appears that there is no formal, consolidated database of speed limits for the whole of the UK. In any case, legal limits don’t necessarily indicate speeds that are appropriate in the real world.
The team at telematics company Quartix felt that there was a need for something more, and realised that with their extensive history of tracking vehicles in real time, they were in a very good position to provide it.
The result is a new database that they consider a unique resource – a Safe Speed database.

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