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The challenge

Key findings

• Congestion is not caused by one single factor but is an accumulation of factors that, when combined, cause what is known as congestion.
• Urban congestion is negatively impacting on the social amenity, economic growth and environmental sustainability in SEQ.
• The annual economic costs of urban congestion in Brisbane could reach $3b by 2020.
• Transport decision-making is highly complex and involves a number of stakeholders.

Source: Qld Auditor-General’s Report to Parliament No. 3 for 2009

The project

The central goal of this project is the development and implementation of a real-time visualisation system of traffic data for  Southeast Queensland.

Commuters will be able to access this information on a web browser, mobile phone, iPhone or other PDA and plan alternate routes if the traffic is too dense in some areas.

Our case studies will be in parts of Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast.

This initiative builds on the existing California Traffic information system and through strategic collaborations between UQ-VisLab and CalIT2 at UC San Diego.


More information on this project is available on the links to the left.