Australia AIM(E)S high

A technical tour of the Australian Integrated Multimodal Eco-System (AIMES) living laboratory electrified ITS Australia’s 2018 National Electronic Tolling and Charging Conference in Melbourne. Based at the University of Melbourne’s School of Engineering, AIMES had, by early in the year, achieved interconnection of 15 traffic intersections in the city. Since going live in April 2017, the lab has been collecting data on public, private, freight and active transportation to support strategic decision-making o
August 21, 2018 Read time: 2 mins
© Rafael Ben Ari | Dreamstime.com
A technical tour of the Australian Integrated Multimodal Eco-System (AIMES) living laboratory electrified 858 ITS Australia’s 2018 National Electronic Tolling and Charging Conference in Melbourne. Based at the University of Melbourne’s School of Engineering, AIMES had, by early in the year, achieved interconnection of 15 traffic intersections in the city.

Since going live in April 2017, the lab has been collecting data on public, private, freight and active transportation to support strategic decision-making on traffic planning and public transport efficiency, while paving the way for the introduction of connected and autonomous vehicles. It uses thousands of intelligent sensors positioned on the transportation infrastructure across the city’s 6km2 central area.  

Association member 378 Cubic Transportation Systems has also won its latest research award for the central role of the company’s Transport Management Platform in supporting the lab.  

This aims to demonstrate the estimated scope for connected transport to help reduce by up to 90% the economic cost of road crashes in Australia, currently running at AU$27 billion (US$20.25bn) a year. The project has also won a 2017 OpenGov Asia award.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Road user charging potential solution to transportation problems
    December 14, 2012
    A number of new and highly significant open road tolling schemes have just been launched or are soon to ‘go live’. Systems of road user charging are flexing their muscles as the means to solve politically sensitive transportation problems, reports Jon Masters. Gothenburg, January 2013, will be the time and place for the launch of the next city congestion charging scheme in Europe. In a separate development, Los Angeles County’s tolled Metro ExpressLanes began operating in November 2012 – the latest in a ser
    Read More
  • IBTTA: road user charge is the future
    March 16, 2022
    The US government’s cash injection for the nation’s bridges represents a step forward – but IBTTA’s Pat Jones suggests that states need to consider the benefits of road usage charging
    Read More
  • US Cities push for smarter poles
    June 25, 2018
    US Cities The need to connect existing infrastructure has led various US transit authorities into imaginative alleyways: David Crawford examines some new roles for street furniture. US cities are vying with each other in developing schemes to create a new generation of connected places. Their strategies include taking advantage of their streetlight poles’ height and ubiquity to give them new roles in supporting intelligent nodes. They are now being equipped for collecting real-time data on key transport
    Read More
  • International ITS leaders to network in Melbourne, Australia
    April 4, 2014
    Intelligent transport systems (ITS) leaders from Asia, Europe, USA and Australia will meet in Melbourne at a free half-day business exchange and networking event on Friday 2 May. Convened by ITS Australia, the meeting will provide updates on ITS developments and deployments across four continents, including innovations for vehicles and infrastructure, legislative initiatives, telematics technologies and plans for the ITS World Congresses in Detroit in September this year and in Melbourne in 2016, as well
    Read More

Highlighted Content