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Background
Vehicle telematics enables the provision of services to road freight operators that can monitor the compliance of vehicles with respect to access conditions set by jurisdictions. This ability to accurately monitor compliance provides an opportunity for a whole new set of opportunities for both jurisdictions and transport operators to optimise performance of their business in terms of both its efficiency and safety, and also maximise the performance of the road infrastructure.
Based on this capability, jurisdictions have a vision of a program whereby heavy vehicle compliance is monitored via the tracking of vehicle location and reporting of associated other parameters. That is, providing a third generation of access to the road network, by complementing General Access (first generation) and Restricted Access (second generation) with “Intelligent Access”.
Having demonstrated the feasibility and application of on-board monitoring and reporting systems, the Intelligent Access Program (IAP) is being progressed via a staged implementation.
On 23 May 2003, the Australian Transport Council (ATC) endorsed the results and recommendations of the project that assessed the feasibility of the IAP. A Steering Committee has been established drawn from Austroads member organisations (excluding New Zealand), Queensland Transport and the National Transport Commission (NTC).
Objective of the IAP
The IAP objective is the implementation of a voluntary system that will monitor freight vehicles remotely using satellite based telematic services to ensure they are complying with their agreed conditions of operation, that is, ensuring they operate how, where and when they should.
The Stage 1 Implementation comprises four sub-project components as follow:
Technology and Standards, Certification and Auditing, Regulatory, and Communications and Stakeholder Relationships.
Deliverables O a document detailing the common IAP data formats for communicating intelligent access conditions to service providers and receiving non-compliance reports from service providers and the necessary format for intelligent access maps. · Certification and Audit O a series of documents that address the certification and audit regime including contractual, technical standards and regulatory (Head-of-Power). · Regulatory O an established process, involving jurisdictions and the NTC, to put in place the necessary legislative and regulatory enablers for Stage 1 of the IAP – this process being advanced enough to provide an acceptable sanctions regime for Stage 1 type IAP applications and specifically including:
- drafting instructions for the IAP specific parts of the model C & E Bill, - preparation of the IAP specific parts within the C&E Bill, - preparation of a Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) to accompany the IAP specific parts of the model C & E Bill. O a report outlining the regulatory enablers for jurisdictions to facilitate the implementation of an IAP, including model C & E Bill reference to issues and recommendations to jurisdictions on an appropriate course of action.
O a series of IAP operational guidelines, O a high level training program for jurisdictional implementation (Train-the-Trainer type), · A communications strategy to manage the key IAP issues and stakeholders (during the Stage 1 Implementation and as a hand-over document), and · A final report, documenting the status of the Stage 1 Implementation with respect to the above deliverables and the necessary follow-up tasks.
The IAP Stage 1 Implementation project team does not have the mandate to “negotiate” intelligent access conditions or to harmonise cross-jurisdictional access. Additionally the team is: to consider national issues, as local or jurisdictional issues remain the responsibility of individual jurisdictions, (eg. project team responsible for delivery of NCR and IAC reports, not for the development of business systems or processes at the local level), and
responsible for the national instruments or national component of common local instruments. It is not responsible for the passage of the same through the parliamentary process. Similarly the delivery of the bill to the Steering Committee’s satisfaction is the end of the responsibility of the Project Team. Progression through the machinations of Government, ie. SCOT, TACE and ATC is a transitional activity as it was in the feasibility project
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