Date: Thursday, 9 November 2023
Location: Online, 1:00 – 2:00pm AEDT
Organiser: Austroads
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Austroads has developed an extended vehicle classification scheme (EVCS) to enable improved understanding and monitoring of the evolving vehicle mix on Australian and New Zealand roads in traffic and transport surveys. This builds upon the existing 1994 vehicle classification scheme.
The EVCS provides greater granularity for each of the existing 12 classes of vehicles and adds a new class for active transport to address the need to count a variety of active transport users such as pedestrians, skateboards and e-scooters.
The EVCS will allow transport agencies to better manage transport demand within and between modes, survey active transport and understand how demands integrate with other modes.
The scheme will help identify changes in transport operational performance and optimise plans for effective access management and asset maintenance.
This webinar is the third session in a three-webinar series, and it will focus on measuring active transport. The first webinar covered heavy vehicles and the third session discussed the changes to light vehicles.
This webinar will focus on active transport and discuss:
- the creation of level 3 class 20
- the greater granularity in level 4 subclasses
- emerging challenges in categorising class 20 elements
- the use of alternative counting technologies.
The webinar will be presented by Drew Gaynor and David Johnston.
There will be question and answer opportunities during the session.
Drew Gaynor has 25 years’ experience in the transport sector covering all modes of transport (road, rail, inter-modal, ports and airports/aviation). He has been Director of Freight and Logistics at the WA Department of Transport and delivered strategic policy and planning projects in Main Roads WA’s Heavy Vehicle and Network Operations divisions. This included route planning for oversize and overmass operations and heavy vehicle performance around WA. He has also been the principal consultant – freight and transport operations at the Australian Road Research Board and is currently Principal – Transport at Level 5 Design.
Drew has undertaken previous Austroads projects including:
- Austroads Best Practice Approaches to Road Freight and Communities
- Austroads Decision Making Framework and Tools for Road Freight Access Decisions
- Guidelines for the Provision of Heavy Vehicle Rest Area Facilities.
David Johnston is specialist Intelligent Transport Systems consultant as well as Director of Intelligent Transport Services and Omni-Aware. For over 40 years, he has been involved in all phases of Intelligent Transport Systems development lifecycle from requirements, design, and implementation to testing, operations and user training.
David is one of Australia’s leading experts in the collection and validation of traffic data, including ways to measure and improve data quality and the decision-making of traffic algorithms. In recent years he has done significant work in traffic data analysis to create evidence-based methods to improve traffic data fusion and the analysis of the costs and causes of urban congestion. Dave is a Chartered Electrical Engineer and Chartered Systems Engineer with a Graduate Certificate in Civil Engineering (Transport). He is also a Fellow of Engineers Australia and Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
No charge but registration is essential. Can’t make the live session? Register and we’ll send you a link to the recording.
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