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STREAMS Smart Motorways Dashboard
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Excellence in Transport Data Award
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Submitting Organisation
Transmax
The STREAMS Smart Motorways Dashboard provides a suite of visuals and reports designed to monitor, assess, and optimise motorway performance using live data. Within the first 10 months of deployment along 13km of Perth’s Kwinana Freeway, travel time was reduced on average by 20%.
Transmax’s existing ramp metering technology has been deployed for some time. The STREAMS Smart Motorways Dashboard developed in the past two years leverages this technology and has been operational in Queensland and Western Australia since 2019 and 2020 respectively. The application generates insights from live traffic data to manage motorway congestion as traffic demand and patterns continue to change over time. Reporting capabilities allow users to proactively identify where critical bottlenecks are developing to focus their attention.
Road agencies deploying STREAMS Smart Motorways and communities already benefit from reduced travel times and other social, economic and environmental benefits. The STREAMS Smart Motorways Dashboard will contribute to safer and more efficient motorway journeys.
The solution is currently operational in Denver, Colorado, and undergoing design for use in California. The application also integrates with other STREAMS ITS applications, such as Transmax’s situational awareness dashboard. The solution is adaptable for use with emerging vehicle detection technologies and ramp signal controllers, transforming this data into digestible insights for users.
The application rapidly informs users about network performance, allowing operators to respond in real-time. Removing the need for reactive traffic analysis and reducing dependencies on subject matter experts, the easy-to-use solution caters to a range of users.
Designed to optimise existing motorway capacity, this cost-effective solution offers an alternative to building additional lanes (and the associated significant environmental, societal and budget costs). By more efficiently routing vehicles, reducing stop-start congestion and the need for additional infrastructure, the STREAMS Smart Motorways Dashboard is designed to provide sustainable benefits to society.
