A HEAVY VEHICLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR QUEENSLAND'S 'SMART ROAD'

The new Pacific Motorway (M1) is a 43 km, high standard eight-lane and six-lane controlled access road. The motorway runs between Logan and Nerang, and is the major route between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Known as 'Queensland's smart road', the facility has a range of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) features. These include twin induction loops, traffic monitoring cameras, a fibre optic based communication system and an advanced traffic management centre at Nerang. The road is engineered to a high standard of safety. However, its operation introduces a series of new challenges for transport and enforcement agencies. For most of its length, the motorway spans across four lanes of traffic (plus merge lanes) in each direction. The speed limit for most sections is 110 km/hr. Throughput starts at around 85,000 vehicles per day, and is expected to double by about 2010. In this environment - for reasons of workplace health and safety - transport inspectors are not able to do roadside 'static' interceptions of heavy vehicles. This severely hinders their capacity to conduct compliance operations for safety and road asset protection. In solving this problem, the challenge was to fold a number of ITS applications into a single integrated system. The result is the Heavy Vehicle Management System (HVMS) - Stage 1. As well as the technical challenges, we have also had to address a range of legal, institutional human factors and evaluation issues. If we progress to Stages 2 and 3, we will further enhance levels of deterrence and minimise disruption to the journeys of compliant vehicles.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Full conference proceedings available on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Edmiston, D
  • King, T
• Conference:
  • 8th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Location: Sydney, Australia
  • Date: 2001-9-30 to 2001-10-4
• Publication Date: 2001

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 9p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asset management; Cameras; Communication systems; Fiber optics; Freeways; Heavy vehicles; Intelligent transportation systems; Loop detectors; Management; Speed; Systems; Traffic control centers; Traffic safety; Traffic surveillance; Traffic volume
• Geographic Terms: Queensland
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Society; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00977610
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 3 2004 12:00AM