Austroads issues connected vehicles guidance for road agencies

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Austroads has published guidance to help road transport agencies identify and enhance the capabilities of their systems, policies, processes and staff to support connected vehicles.

A connected vehicle is one that is capable of connecting over wireless networks to nearby devices. Operators of connected vehicles use information from in-vehicle devices (including phone-based navigation apps, and fixed and portable GPS devices) to assist with trip planning, and warning and advice while driving.

As connected vehicles become more reliant on agency-owned data for trip planning, warning and advice, establishing these capabilities is a foundational step to ensure agencies are able to provide data that meets vehicle operator and vehicle needs.

The Austroads guidance presents an agency business capability model that contains five organisational capability areas and associated capability maturity target states from business and technology perspectives.

The model focuses on previously identified high-priority agency data sets: roadworks, incidents, static and variable speed limits, lane control signals, traffic control signals and heavy vehicle access restrictions.

The capability areas are managing data foundations, governing data, planning and designing data, as well as enabling, maintaining and using data. Each of the five areas include multiple capabilities, including data security and privacy, ethics, data integration and storage, business intelligence and data science.

The model and target states can be used by road agencies to assess their current capabilities in supporting connected vehicles, and to guide development of data management practices that improve the range and quality of data provided to connected vehicles.

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