The new Pacific Motorway (M1) is a 43 km, high standard eight-lane and six-lane controlled access road. Known as 'Queensland's smart road', the facility has a range of ITS features. The road is engineered to a high standard of safety. For most of its length, the motorway spans across our 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. Progress to Stages 2 and 3 will further enhance levels of deterrence and minimise disruption to the journeys of compliant vehicles. (Author/publisher) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E209471.
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