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CASE STUDY DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, VICTORIA


Melbourne: ready for an ITS future


As a world leader in hi-tech innovative transport solutions and renowned for its capacity to stage large-scale business events, Melbourne, Australia, is the ideal location for the 2016 World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems as Dave Sheridan explains


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ictoria’s state capital was recently rated the world’s most liveable city for an unprecedented sixth year in a row and is expected to overtake Sydney as the nation’s larg-


est city within a few decades, with a population of over nine million forecast by 2056. With much of the city’s urban growth set to continue around


its outer fringes, Melbourne’s success presents a suite of new challenges. Currently, there are 13 million trips per day on Melbourne’s


public transport system, and this is forecast to grow to 23 mil- lion over the next 35 years. Over the same period, Victoria’s freight volume is expected to quadruple. Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) technologies and the efficiency, sustainability and safety dividends they promise


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will be key to managing Melbourne’s growth and connecting its growing population to the key employment precincts of its central business district. Victoria is emerging as a world leader in ITS, says David


Scott, account director at Wave Digital. The Melbourne-based mobile app development agency specialises in delivering complex solutions for large corporate and government agen- cies, and was responsible for developing Victoria’s award-win- ning suite of VicTraffic apps. The apps provide Victoria’s road users with real-time infor-


mation on travel times, road closures, roadworks, traffic cam- era locations, webcam feeds and more. “We looked overseas for benchmarking of similar type apps and products but found very little,’’ says Scott.


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