iMOVE transport research activities

This programme will deliver the technical infrastructure, data frameworks, models and tools to support Australia’s adoption of increasingly sophisticated transport networks.

It will enable:

• Real-time position and information speeds for all modes of transport and associated infrastructure (e.g. traffic lights)
• Traffic management software that will use new sources of connected data from vehicles, roadside sensors, traffic signals
• the smooth adoption of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV), including the infrastructure required to support CAVs (such as lane guidance, positioning information, digital security, vehicle-to-vehicle communication, vehicle-to-pedestrian communication)
• Collection and analyses of information on driver behaviour from vehicles, including parameters such as speed, braking activity, and direction change and their relationship to network infrastructure
• Identification of factors that contribute to accidents and poor network performance
• integration of information systems to support new multi-modal transport services
  It will also provide foundation stones for the other two research programmes

Read our ITS articles, or find out more about our ITS projects.

The availability of better data, and emerging visibility from end to end of supply chains creates significant opportunities to optimise operations across wider ranges of processes thereby increasing efficiency and performance.

The movement of time-sensitive, and condition-sensitive products (e.g. fresh food) is of particular interest as these suffer the greatest loss of value and wastage from sub-optimal transport performance.

More specifically, work here will address:

• Supply chain models that incorporate the interactions of multiple elements, such as road, rail, shipping, and air components, as well as intermodal exchange points
• Consistent data systems, standards, and common approaches for managing freight supply chains
• Optimisation of the complete supply chain, rather than individual elements
• Methodology to monitor individual goods, including dwell times, frequency and roughness of handing, and the supply chain environment

Read our Freight and Logitistics articles, or find out more about our Freight and Logitistics projects.

Work here will see the development of new and innovative solutions to allow the mobility system to be more traveller-centric and provide a more personalised experience.

Also, the creation of business models, systems and technologies to increase the use of shared or public mobility options.

It will also address the need for systems and technologies to increase the access of mobility options to elderly or disabled Australians.

Research in this area will bring about:

• A multimodal tool that will allow users to plan any journey using one or many modes of transport
• Consideration of data from various sources to deliver an optimal solution – e.g., suppliers of every travel mode available, user preferences such as price, time, enroute destinations
• Protocols to manage and integrate information from multiple sources, and securely and robustly deliver fit for purpose information to the user
• Community and society attitudes to, and willingness to embrace, new technologies such as CAVs and services
• Identification of the characteristics of technologies, services and policy that encourage community uptake

Read our Mobility articles, or find out more about our Mobility projects.