Before June 2023, New South Wales experienced significant numbers of over-height vehicle incidents and detections, disrupting the road network, impacting the economy, and posing safety risks to tunnel and bridge infrastructure and road users. To tackle over-height vehicle incidents in New South Wales, a taskforce was formed mid-2023, including Transport for NSW, the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator, and NSW Police. A 32% incident reduction and 67% closure minute reduction were achieved in six months through collaborative strategies and improvements, with further enhancements planned.

Freight Signal Priority (FSP) is a critical traffic management strategy aimed at enhancing the efficiency of freight movement through signalised intersections. This presentation will provide the outcomes of our first study, which focused on the implementation and evaluation of FSP through a trial utilising the Telstra C-ITS (Cooperative Intelligent Transport System) platform interfacing with the SCATS Priority Engine.

 In last-mile delivery logistics, drivers often choose routes based on personal preferences, favoring familiar roads over the shortest distance. This study proposes an innovative approach to learning drivers' routing preferences by integrating Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS) with a sampling technique and a Machine Learning (ML)-based optimization technique. Our method, validated with real-world data, offers superior solutions that align with drivers' preferences, advancing ML-powered last-mile delivery planning.

Led by NT Government Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics (DIPL), Micro Connect and TfNSW SCATS worked to design, build, integrate, test and commission a Traffic Signal priority request solution for Emergency Vehicles incorporating Micro Connect's VPriority platform and the TfNSW SCATS Priority Engine (SPE) products. In the presentation, Micro Connect will outline the business drivers for the NT Government, how the project was approved and how the solution worked in practice along with real-world examples of the signal priority ecosystem in action and benefits realised.