Vicroads | 11 from the site • 400 cubic metres of concrete was used • 6,400 metres of rail was laid. BUILDING AND MANAGING SMARTER ROAD The management of traffic on Victoria’s roads is becoming increasingly important as the competing demands placed on the network continue to grow. Use of technology to enable us to manage the roads smarter and more efficiently is vital to providing safe and reliable travel for road users. The introduction of managed motorways technology – including ramp metering, incident detection and lane use management – onto major Melbourne freeways has already shown tangible benefits in terms of traffic flow and incident management. As the world-wide movement towards cooperative intelligent transport systems makes its way to Australia, we will see cars that can communicate with each other, cars that communicate to infrastructure and, in time, a host of new technologies that today we are only just conceiving. In the next 20 years VicRoads will likely witness as much change as in the whole of the last century. It will be both exciting and challenging, bringing with it a range of benefits and obstacles.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTYzNTg=