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Contract awarded to deliver Sydney transport management system

The major work contract for the $105 million Mulgoa Road/Castlereagh Road in Penrith, NSW, has been awarded.

The New South Wales Government is investing $123 million to establish a predictive, data-driven transport management system in Sydney, with over $50 million in works awarded to a transport systems business.The New South Wales Government is investing $123 million to establish a predictive, data-driven transport management system in Sydney, with over $50 million in works awarded to a transport systems business.

Cubic Transportation Systems will provide Transport for NSW with a new technology platform – the Intelligent Congestion Management Program – which will co-ordinate, manage and monitor Sydney’s public transport system and road networks.

The new system aims to reduce congestion, improve major event planning and enable faster response to incidents on the transport network.

It will also provide real-time information and advice to the public regarding disruptions.

Cubic will work with its partners WSP, PTV Group, Mentz and Microsoft to deliver the platform, which will replace the existing system that Cubic built to manage Sydney’s traffic prior to the onset of the 2000 Olympic Games.

The contract is for a term of five years and seven months, with options for two three-year extensions.

NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance said the system would be designed to help Sydney manage the introduction of driverless Metro trains next year and the eventual introduction of automated vehicles in the future.

“This $123 million investment will future proof our transport management system for these innovations so we can better manage congestion and respond to incidents faster, as well as preparing for new transport infrastructure in the pipeline,” Mr. Constance said.

“It makes us more responsive to incidents by automating current manual processes using data. The goal is to predict 30 minutes into the future and act in 5 minutes – this helps to divert traffic, co-ordinate public transport and provide real-time information to customers about any disruptions or alternative routes.”

The state government expects the new system to be up and running by 2020.


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