On 11 January 2009 at 8am local time, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, an Australian icon and one of the oldest and largest toll operations in Australia went cashless. Therefore, more and more vehicles, if not all, will be forced to carry an e-tag.
E-tag is an electronic toll collection system used on tollways throughout Australia. Based upon the DSRC protocol, it was originally developed by Transurban for use on their CityLink tollway in the early 1990s, with the system since adopted by all electronic tolled roads, bridges and tunnels in Australia. At the present time there are over 850,000 e-TAG account customers and over 1 million e-TAGs issued.
With around 90 per cent of motorists preferring electronic payment in the morning peak, making the Bridge fully cashless will help improve traffic conditions and ease congestion.
This thesis project will look into innovative ways to use these tags in applications other than tolling, such as traffic congestion monitoring and analysis as well as accident investigation.
This project will be co-supervised by staff from UNSW, RTA and the NSW Department of Lands. The selected student(s) has the opportunity to be employed by RTA or Lands upon graduation.
