Valle de Egüés: more detection capacity and a sharp fall in pedestrian collisions

The starting point

Valle de Egüés went from 2,348 inhabitants in 2000 to more than 20,000 in 2016, almost multiplying its population tenfold in barely sixteen years. That growth increased the demand for public services and drove significant urban development, with wide dual-lane avenues and straight stretches of up to 2,000 metres.

The new situation brought a rise in road casualties, pedestrians being hit above all, linked to serious offences such as speeding, running red lights and entering regulated zones. The municipality began to take on the challenge of mobility and road safety with two priorities: calming the traffic and bringing casualties down.

What was deployed

Among the measures the council promoted as part of a road safety plan, various automatic offence detection systems were introduced step by step. In 2019 Coordinadora de Gestión de Ingresos (CGI), the parent company of Grupo CGI and a shareholder in CGi21, was contracted to assist with the handling and collection of penalties.

Education first, enforcement afterwards

Before opening the enforcement phase, the council put substantial resources into road safety education and traffic control. Awareness campaigns, publishing the figures, a greater police presence and several changes to the streets and the street furniture proved decisive in calming the traffic and reducing casualties.

What the collaboration brought

For its part, working with the company made it possible to install devices with no upfront investment, speed up procedures, bring in advanced validation and case-handling technology, offer omnichannel public service and switch on early warnings so that offences did not become time-barred.

One of the most notable aspects of the service has been the end-to-end digitisation of the life of a notice, from the moment it is issued or captured through to the handling and collection of the penalty case file, by integrating technology and automating bulk procedures.

Results

Detection capacity has grown considerably. In 2019 the only automatic source of detection was the speed camera; by 2025 the municipality has a network combining speed cameras, red-light systems and access control cameras.

In 2025 alone, more than 3,300 offences were detected automatically. Close to 88% of them came from the access control cameras and the red-light systems, which shows the change of scale from the starting point.

The figure that matters: pedestrians hit

The combination of all these measures has helped bring pedestrian collisions down sharply: from 40 people hit between 2011 and 2013 to only 4 between 2019 and 2021, a trend that has held in recent years.

Valle de Egüés shows how an integrated strategy — public planning, road safety education, technology for automatic enforcement and specialist handling of penalty procedures — can translate into measurable improvements in road safety, a more efficient administration and a quicker service for the public.