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Data applications shine in Australia’s National ITS Awards

Intelligent Transport Systems organisations and professionals representing industry, government and the research/academic community were recognised by their peers in Australia’s 2014 National Awards. Winners included: Intelematics Australia, which won the Industry Award for the Toyota Connected Vehicle Programs, a world market leading approach to in-vehicle connected technology.
November 28, 2014 Read time: 3 mins
Intelligent Transport Systems organisations and professionals representing industry, government and the research/academic community were recognised by their peers in Australia’s 2014 National Awards. Winners included:

6030 Intelematics Australia, which won the Industry Award for the 1686 Toyota Connected Vehicle Programs, a world market leading approach to in-vehicle connected technology.

The Government Award went to Queensland 7026 Department of Transport and Main Roads, Queensland Public Safety Business Agency, Queensland Fire and Emergency Service, Queensland Police Service and 796 Transmax for the successful Emergency Vehicle Priority system in Samford Road, Brisbane.

Winners of the Industry Award and Government Award will also will be nominated by 858 ITS Australia for consideration for the worldwide ITS Achievement Award, to be presented at the 6456 ITS World Congress 2015 in Bordeaux, France.

Winner of the Research Academic Award was National ICT Australia (NICTA) for the Advanced Data Analytics in Transportation Project by the Machine Learning Research Group led by project director Dr Fang Chen.

Joint winners of the Young Professional Award were: Amira Galli, ITS performance and improvements consultant, 4728 VicRoads; Luke Madigan, senior electrical engineer, Department of Transport and Main Roads Queensland; Both recipients win free flights, accommodation and registration to the ITS Asia Pacific Forum 2015 Nanjing China from 27 to 29 April 2015, with the opportunity to present a paper.

In addition to the awards selected from industry sourced entries, the ITS Australia Board of Directors may nominate an individual for the Max Lay Lifetime Achievement Award, recognising eminent service to Australia’s ITS industry . The 2014 recipient of the Max Lay Lifetime Achievement Award is Australian transport executive Ken Daley, who is widely credited with having coined the term eTAG. An engineer with a career spanning 41 years, he was a pioneer of tolling interoperability across Australia.

Group manager ITS at Jacobs and Chair of the National ITS Awards Judging Panel Gino Dompietro said a notable trend in this year’s selection of leading entries from industry and government was the increased focus on the use of data to improve the ITS task.

“Many of the best solutions targeted data – either sourced from the field, mined in back offices or created fit for the purpose – to inform innovative applications and services that use ITS to improve safety, mobility and the environment, or help create new ITS applications altogether,” said the ITS Australia Director.

He went on to say that the 2014 National ITS awards set a benchmark for the local ITS industry. “This year’s competition attracted a larger more diverse range of nominations. The winners have demonstrated great skill and creativity.

“The development and deployment of ITS technologies is helping to make communities more liveable. Through this annual Awards program we hope the community gains better understanding of the value and productivity that ITS adds to our transport infrastructure,” said Gino Dompietro.

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