››› Session 5

Operating the Major Road Network of South East Queensland - A Cooperative Approach

Gerard Reardon   Project Manager, Cooperative Road Management Project, Main Roads Qld

Sup Grant Pitman   Superintendent, State Traffic Support Branch, Queensland Police Service

The major roads of South-East Queensland function as both intra- and inter-regional routes, providing access to, and mobility between, areas of key regional, state and national significance. Non-recurrent congestion on these routes has significant adverse economic and environmental impacts. Main Roads, as lead agent responsible for maintaining optimum operational performance of these routes, has established the Cooperative Road Management Project to coordinate a cooperative multi-agency approach to progressively improving incident management, particularly across South East Queensland. The Queensland Police Service and Queensland Transport are working jointly with Main Roads on this project. This paper will outline and discuss the policies, strategies, systems and potential changes to operational processes, across Main Roads, Queensland Police and Queensland Transport, that are being investigated and implemented to assist with improving management of both planned and unplanned incidents. A progress report of the benefits and learnings of a recently established joint Main Roads / Queensland Police initiative to cooperatively improve management of unplanned incidents on key intra- and inter-regional routes south of Brisbane, will also be discussed.