1. Australian CAV update International Task Force on Vehicle Highway Automation October 2017, Montreal Stuart Ballingall, Program Director CAV, Austroads
Welcome everyone to the third Australasian Road Safety Conference.

2. Collaborative national approach
Commonwealth DIRD:
National policy, national regulation
National Transport Commission (NTC):
Regulatory review and reform
Austroads:
Operational framework for roads, registration & licensing (R&L)
Jurisdictions:
State/territory policy, regulation, road and R&L operations, trials

3. National policy framework
Endorsed by Ministers in August 2016
Policy principles to guide decision making
Role of governments
Three year action plan – overseen by LTT WG
Action plan to be reviewed

4. Regulatory reform for automated vehicles
Reform actions endorsed by Ministers:
National guidelines for on-road testing
Review of exemption powers
National enforcement guidelines
Policy on ‘control’ & ‘proper control’
Safety assurance system for AVs
Legal obligations for driving systems
Review CTP insurance schemes
Options to access AV data

5. National guidelines for AV trials
Developed by NTC & Austroads
Endorsed by Ministers, published in May 2017
Key objectives of the Guidelines:
Provide a performance-based framework
Provide clarity to industry
Support national consistency, cross border trials
Basis for jurisdictions to assess trial applications
Basis to determine exemption & permit conditions

6. Operational frameworks
Operational functions of Austroads road agency members:
Vehicle registration
Driver licensing
Road infrastructure design & maintenance
Road & traffic operations

7. Austroads CAV publications

8. Current Austroads CAV projects
Assessment of speed sign recognition systems
Concept of operations for emerging use cases
Harmonisation of line marking
Compliance assurance
Cyber security
Trial working group

9. Australian CAV trials CAVI - C-ITS & AD initiative
Footpath delivery vehicles
Automated shuttle bus
CITI - C-ITS initiative
C-ITS truck priority
Automated shuttle bus
Smart Innovation Centre
RAC Intelibus
HV platooning
Driver monitoring systems
Bosch HAD vehicle
CAV motorway trials
AIMES multimodal testbed
PT priority trials
Automated shuttle buses
Automated cargo pods
Automated shuttle buses
V2X and AD demos

10. Program Director CAV, Austroads sballingall@austroads.com.au
Stuart Ballingall
Program Director CAV, Austroads
The Australian College of Road Safety has done a marvellous job bringing this conference together and I’m really looking forward to hearing from the experts who are presenting over the next three days, as I’m sure you are.
I’m also looking forward to meeting you in the sessions and functions.
Don’t forget to download the conference app if you haven’t done so already. That will make the process of getting to your presentations and catching up with colleagues much easier.
And keep in mind, that as we gather over these next three days around 10 people will be killed and 250 seriously injured on Australian roads. Let’s make this time together really count.