Connected vehicles: are we ready? Internal report on potential implications for Main Roads WA

This report is a companion report to ‘Automated Vehicles: Are we ready?’ and discusses the imminent availability of C-ITS enabled vehicles on Western Australian roads, and what Main Roads, as the state road agency, needs to do to enable successful operation of such vehicles on its road network. From a government perspective, the impetus for deploying C-ITS is to deliver applications with a road safety focus that will reduce the number of fatality and serious injury crashes on the road network. To do this effectively, C-ITS will need to function in urban and rural areas, particularly as rural Western Australia (WA) contributes to a significant number (58 percent) of fatal crashes (based on 2009–2014 crash data) each year. Main Roads’ primary interest would be to support applications that deliver significant safety, efficiency and environmental benefits for its customers.

• Record URL:
  https://www.mainroads.wa.gov.au/Documents/Connect%20Vehicles%20Web.RCN-D15%5E23413758.PDF
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• Corporate Authors:

  Main Roads Western Australia

  PO Box 6202, East Perth WA 6892, Australia
  Perth, Western Australia   
• Authors:
  • Weeratunga, K
  • Somers, A
• Publication Date: 2015-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 62p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision making; Highway safety; Policy; Transportation departments; Types of roads by network; Vehicle to infrastructure communications; Vehicle to vehicle communications
• Uncontrolled Terms: Policy and planning
• Geographic Terms: Western Australia
• ATRI Terms: Decision process; Policy; Road authority; Road network; Road safety; Vehicle to roadside communications; Vehicle to vehicle communications
• Subject Areas: Highways; Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01573185
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 13 2015 3:45PM