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2024 Automated Traffic Enforcement Report

Original source: https://www.edmonton.ca/sites/default/files/public-files/assets/PDF/2024-Automated-Traffic-Enforcement-Report.pdf

Local snapshot (archived 2026-07-03): full-page PDF committed at sources/budgets/_archive/edmonton-automated-traffic-enforcement-2024/edmonton-automated-traffic-enforcement-2024.pdf.

City of Edmonton's mandatory annual ATE (photo radar) report to the province. Key for understanding how much photo-radar money exists and where it goes.

Revenue (verbatim)

"The automated enforcement program in Edmonton generated $24.699 million in 2024. As outlined in City Policy C579B Traffic Safety Automated Enforcement Reserve, automated enforcement revenue generated by the City of Edmonton program is reinvested back into safe mobility initiatives such as crosswalk upgrades, adaptable traffic calming installations and other road design improvements to help reach Vision Zero and do not go into general City revenues."

Program context (verbatim)

  • Automated enforcement is done "in coordination with in-person enforcement by the Edmonton Police Service (EPS)."
  • "560 mobile speed enforcement sites and 105 Intersection Safety Device locations were approved by EPS."
  • Provincial restrictions effective April 1, 2025: "prohibiting photo radar on all provincial highways, restricting photo radar to school zones, playground zones, and construction zones, and limiting Intersection Safety Devices (ISDs) to red light enforcement only."

Interpretation note

  • The $24.699M (2024) is GROSS program revenue generated by the City. Off the top the province takes its fine-revenue share (40% since 2020, up from 36.1%) plus the victim services surcharge (20% since 2020, up from 15%).
  • IMPORTANT: The 2024 report frames the City's share as reinvested into "safe mobility initiatives" (Vision Zero road design) — NOT transferred to EPS. This differs from the earlier (2022) arrangement where $22.3M/yr from the Traffic Safety and Automated Enforcement Reserve was counted as EPS revenue in the police funding formula. The photo-radar-to-EPS pipeline appears to have narrowed/ended by 2024.