A plan to install more speed cameras will be put to the West Midlands Combined Authority.
The Road Safety Action Plan 2024-2030 will aim to reduce the number of people killed on the roads by introducing more speed interventions and a new safety commissioner.
The proposal will go before West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) Board next month.
Transport for West Midlands said the preferred option could be a combination of average speed enforcement, spot speed enforcement and mobile cameras.
The authority covers Birmingham, Coventry, the Black Country and Solihull.
The plan aims to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on the roads by 50% by 2030.
Councillors said money from speeding fines would be used to cover the cost of running a scheme across the region.
Birmingham councillor Liz Clements said: “We’ve had fatalities and life-changing injuries over the summer months just as we did last year and Birmingham City Council has declared a road safety emergency.
“I’m waiting to see evidence we are actually treating this as an emergency.”
Coventry councillor Pervez Akhtar said a crash on Longfellow Road where two children died in 2018 triggered a manifesto pledge for more speed enforcement.
He said: "The whole behaviour has changed. It has made a massive difference – that needs to be taken forward and introduced in our region regardless of the cost.
“This will stop the slaughter and this message needs to go from this committee.”
Wolverhampton councillor Harbinder Singh added that fatalities had occurred where there were no average speed cameras in operation.
Anne Shaw, executive director of Transport for West Midlands, said the costs for the scheme are currently being reviewed by all local authorities.
She said that in the meantime, mobile units would be deployed across various locations.
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