Dayton recognized an urgent need to expand automated speed and red-light enforcement, especially in its school zones, where unsafe driving puts students at risk.

DAYTON, OHIO / ACCESS Newswire / September 25, 2025 / The City of Dayton has awarded a multi-year contract to Elovate, a full-service automated traffic enforcement provider, to significantly enhance school zone and intersection safety with a turnkey solution from capture to citation issuance and processing.

Dayton recognized an urgent need to expand automated speed and red-light enforcement, especially in its school zones, where unsafe driving puts students at risk. In 2023, Dayton issued over 140,000 camera-based traffic citations, underlining ongoing concerns about speeding in these critical areas. Only a handful of its existing enforcement sites are in active school zones, yet these zones represent a disproportionate share of dangerous incidents. Nationally, studies show that automated speed cameras in school zones reduce total crashes by 8 to 49%, and fatal or injury crashes by 11 to 44% at monitored locations.

Elovate's Solution

Under the new contract (a five-year base term with an optional five-year extension), Elovate offers a complete system to Dayton as its turnkey partner, covering:

• Deployment of 68 speed enforcement systems (including fixed, mobile, and mounted units) and 17 red-light enforcement solutions city-wide.

• Full lifecycle services from camera installation, data capture, violation processing, citation issuance, and administrative support.

• Integration of enforcement into school zone active hours (20 mph limit during school hours as per Ohio law), including handling school-zone warning and compliance periods.

In this new partnership, Elovate operates and maintains the full enforcement framework, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and fairness in all citations processed.

Elovate & Dayton: A Strategic Partnership

"We are proud to partner with the City of Dayton as its strategic enforcement provider," said Robert DeSanti, General Manager at Elovate. "Our goal is to deliver a system that works from end to end - technology, compliance, enforcement, and community trust -helping Dayton reach its safety goals and reduce harm in school zones."

About Dayton's Enforcement Program

Elovate's deployment aligns with Dayton's existing photo enforcement framework. Some statistics & context:

• Photo enforcement devices will enforce the 20 mph school zone limit during active school zone times.

• Locations at this time will include multiple school zones across Dayton with fixed and mobile trailer units.

Contact Information

Anna Buchner
Marketing Director
anna.buchner@elovate.com
+1888-3568-283

SOURCE: Elovate