Citation

Jones S. J. Australas. Coll. Road Saf. 2016; 27(1): 42-46.

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(Copyright © 2016, Australasian College of Road Safety)

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Abstract

Toll Group operates nearly 3000 heavy vehicles in Australia. Those vehicles travel around 300 million kilometres delivering 54 million consignments each year. Speed, fatigue and driver inattention/distraction are key policy challenges in the heavy vehicle space. Toll Group has invested in technologies of various kinds to reduce crash and incident risk. This article will explore these technologies - including in the two articles to follow this one - which describe the use of in-vehicle cameras and driver-state sensing machines. It will explore why these technologies were adopted (the problems and risks they were designed to address); how they work; the results they have achieved; and the lessons learned along the way. It will also provide an orientation on the specific context and challenges of heavy vehicle operation in Australia; including the over-representation of heavy vehicles in crashes and on-road incidents and the legal, cultural and enforcement context of heavy vehicle operations.

Language: en