DAYTON, Ohio, 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.
Elovate is proud to partner with Dayton in transforming road safety through innovation and lasting collaboration.
