Call for participants
To support this project, we are seeking drivers of passenger vehicles to (1) record real world driving data using a device that will be installed in their vehicles, and (2) take part in surveys, so they can provide feedback on their interaction with C-ITS technology.
If you wish to be involved in the project, you can complete the pre-screening questionnaire at the link below. If you’re eligible to be involved in the project, you will then be invited to register for the kick-off workshop, which will supply further information about the project. If you find you can’t attend, don’t worry, it will be recorded and supplied to you along with the consent forms.
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Project overview
Co-operative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) technology enables road users and infrastructure (such as traffic lights) to share information on road conditions, disruptions, traffic flow, and safety incidents with each other. Past projects, both inside and outside of Australia, have shown C-ITS' potential to provide significant safety benefits 1 by detecting and providing advanced warnings to drivers. Australian governments are working together, and with industry, towards a nationally consistent C‑ITS environment. This project is a part of that work.
The C-ITS Harmonisation project will deploy C-ITS technology at scale in a real-world busy urban environment in Melbourne, across 30 intersections at five key corridors, to assess deployment options and the associated benefits, generating recommendations to support the Australian road authorities' adoption of C-ITS in a nationally harmonised manner.
1U.S. Department of Transportation (2023) Estimated Safety Benefits of C-ITS Deployments Across the European Union. Available at: https://www.itskrs.its.dot.gov/2023-b01803
(Web archive available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20250202083053/https://www.itskrs.its.dot.gov/2023-b01803)
This project is approved by the University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee (Ethics ID 2024-29391-54145-4)
Our team
The team running the project consists of University of Melbourne staff and a range of staff from transport authorities across Australia. The key contacts who you may come in contact with include:
- Principal investigator: Majid Sarvi is the founding professor in Transport for Smart Cities and the program director of "Transport Technologies" at the University of Melbourne. He is the founder and the director of the AIMES (Australian Integrated Multimodal EcoSystem).
- Dr. Patricia Sauri Lavieri is a Senior Lecturer in Transport Engineering in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering, FEIT, and a Melbourne Energy Institute research fellow. Dr. Lavieri is leading the project conceptualisation and management.
- Katherine Tao is the participant manager for the project and a masters student at the University of Melbourne.
- Bo Wang is a research Fellow in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering. He received his PhD in Transport Engineering from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.