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The inaugural 2009 ITS Summit co-hosted by the Victorian Government and ITS Australia was held from November 18 to 20. With input from 10 international and 42 national speakers, the 360 summit delegates collaborated to draft a vision document to maximise the value of leading edge intelligent transport technologies for Australian road and rail networks.

The purpose of the 2009 ITS Summit was to bring together representatives from State and Federal Governments to review the vision document and formulate an Action Plan. The ITS Action Plan will form the basis of an industry submission into the 'National Smart Infrastructure Enquiry' announced by Federal Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Anthony Albanese at the ITS Summit, Friday November 20. The Standing Committee overseeing the enquiry will be inviting submissions from industry and stakeholders from early 2010.

The Queensland Government has taken the baton and offered to co-host the next ITS Summit with ITS Australia in 2011. The purpose of this next summit will be to monitor the progress of the National ITS Action Plan and realign the vision for the future of ITS across Australian road and rail networks.

Dates and venue for this summit will be advised at a later date.

Key outcomes across the seven themes of the 2009 ITS Summit were:

Improve road and rail safety:

Apply ITS to ensure zero harm arising from road rail use

Reduce environmental impact

Use ITS as a key enabling technology to reduce the environmental impact of transport

Improve public transport operation

Exceed customer expectations with public transport to make it the mode of choice
Achieve multi-modal integration of passenger management and fare management

Facilitate a more efficient freight industry

Establish Government sponsored national body to set ITS goals and standards with enforcement authority
Develop a national open ITS communications and data architecture to support a range of applications
Improving security and emergency planning
Achieve national integration of best practise international ITS solutions to deliver superior security and emergency management outcomes

Improving road network management

Achieve uniform national adoption of best practise international systems to achieve avoidable congestion across all modes
Achieve national road network that is priced, operated and used to maximise cross modal efficiency, increase safety and reduce emissions

Better travel and traveller information

Develop a common multi-modal transport information portal, with a pilot project by 2012.
Develop a business case for funding whole of life ITS equipment
Adopt where possible international standards for network instrumentation and data exchange
Create a regime allowing service providers free access to data for all government owned modes