Regulatory Telematics, and what you need to know

Gavin Hill General Manager

Strategic Development Transport Certification Australia

November 2016

Overview

•  About TCA •  What do we mean by telematics?

•  The National Telematics Framework

•  Regulatory telematics

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About TCA

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About Transport Certification Australia

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•  TCA is a national government body in Australia

•  We provide an important interface between governments, industry sectors and end-users

•  We’ve recently released a three-year strategic plan

About Transport Certification Australia

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The Strategic Plan responds to the disruptive influence of technology Stakeholders need assurance to navigate rapid changes in technology

About Transport Certification Australia

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We are a ‘cross-cutting’ organisation which works across different policy streams, surface transport modes, and government and industry sectors

What do we do?

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•  We develop performance based functional and technical specifications

•  We certify service providers and type-approve hardware

•  We ‘regulate’ providers of technology, and create new markets from which end-users can obtain assured telematics services

What do we mean by telematics?

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What is telematics?

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The term ‘telematics’ broadly refers to the interconnected use of: •  Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) •  Telecommunications and Information and

Communication Technologies (ICT) •  In-vehicle sensors

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•  Other systems

What is telematics?

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Telematics enables data and information to be exchanged between vehicles and other locations, including: •  Vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) applications •  Vehicle to vehicle (V2V) applications •  Vehicle to elsewhere (V2X) applications

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Vehicle-based

ITS Road-based

ITS

What is telematics? An evolution in ITS

Getting it wrong has consequences

However, the promise of a ‘technology utopia’…

…could actually lead us to a technology ‘dystopia’

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Getting it wrong has real consequences

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Getting it wrong has real consequences

Unless you get the foundations right, we face the prospect of technology working against us… …rather than working for us

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The National Telematics Framework

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The National Telematics Framework Australian Transport and Infrastructure Ministers endorsed the following key principles for telematics and ITS:

•  Interoperability •  Innovation •  Inter-modality •  Discouraging inappropriate technologies that could

restrict further development •  Multiple uses

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The National Telematics Framework •  A multi-application, multi-provider operating model

•  A performance based approach to technology

•  Defined roles and responsibilities between operators, regulators and telematics providers (to minimise real or perceived conflicts of interest)

•  Ensures privacy by design

•  One box, many uses

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The regulatory environment

The National Telematics Framework forms part of the broader regulatory environment for heavy vehicles

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Na#onalreform Introduced Purpose

Na#onalHeavyVehicleAccredita#onScheme(NHVAS)

1999 Qualitysystemsforheavyvehiclemass/loadingandmaintenance

ChainofResponsibility(CoR) 2005 Allpar#esinthesupplychainneedtomanagecompliance

PerformanceBasedStandards(PBS) 2005 Allowsinnova#vevehicledesigns–ontherightroads

Na#onalTelema#csFramework 2008 Allowsinnova#veapproachestotelema#cs,forregulatorypurposes

The National Telematics Framework

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The Framework enables the telematics industry to meet the needs of regulators and transport operators

Regulatory requirements Operator requirements

Multiple telematics providers (competition and choice for the transport industry)

A focus on hardware

•  Type-approved IVUs meet the key functional and technical requirements sought by government, industry sectors and end-users:

o  Robustness o  Accuracy o  Reliability o  Tamper evidence o  Data storage o  Security

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A focus on hardware

•  These requirements are available on our website

•  The Telematics IVU Functional and Technical Specification sets out the core requirements necessary to ensure reliability, accuracy, integrity and security, irrespective of its end use

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The good news

•  Over 32,000 heavy vehicles are already fitted with hardware

•  This is a 22% increase over the last 2 years

•  The transport industry tells us that the IVU is a centrepiece of technology which supports a range of functions

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Dealing with legacy

•  Many transport operators have existing IVUs, which may not be able to support regulatory telematics applications

•  TCA responded by introducing the Entry Options initiative

•  Transport operators can have their existing IVUs assessed by TCA – at no cost

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Dealing with legacy

•  Many IVUs fall short in three critical areas: o  Tampering

o  Data security and integrity

o  Quality management systems

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Regulatory Telematics

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•  Regulatory telematics refers to productivity or safety reforms… ….underpinned by the use of telematics and related intelligent technologies

•  Over the last decade, we’ve seen the progressive

introduction of reforms and initiatives… …which wouldn’t necessarily have been contemplated previously

What do we mean by regulatory telematics?

•  Regulatory telematics applications have several defining features: o  Legislative underpinning

o  Defined roles and responsibilities, with roles and responsibilities assigned to service providers

o  Minimum service requirements, with turnaround times to resolve issues and malfunctions

o  Privacy by design (including secure storage retention, strong controls on what data is able to be obtained by government)

o  Penalties for tampering and mis-use of data

o  Transport operators retain ownership of data (which can be used for other purposes – single box, many uses)

What do we mean by regulatory telematics?

•  With these underpinnings, productivity and safety reforms that been introduced which enable:

o  Road network access

o  New vehicle types

o  Increased mass

•  While managing infrastructure and safety risks

Growing use of regulatory telematics

Growing use of regulatory telematics

We continue to see governments introducing new access arrangements being introduced:

VIC Increased mass limits for Higher Productivity Freight Vehicles (HPFVs)

NSW Safety, Productivity, Environment Construction Transport Scheme (SPECTS)

WA Super Quad Road Trains Low-speed Bridge Crossings

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PBS Super Quad Road Trains

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PBS Super Quad Road Trains

•  PBS-approved Super Quad Road Trains are operating in in Western Australia o  Payload of 140 tonnes (194 tonne gross) o  Must only operate on approved routes o  Must not exceed maximum speed of 90km/h

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PBS Super Quad Road Trains

•  Telematics is also being used to manage compliance with:

o  ‘Headway’ conditions (200m)

o  Overtaking restrictions (no overtaking)

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What does this mean for you?

•  You need to be aware of hardware requirements

•  You should ask current telematics provider of their plans to support regulatory telematics applications

•  You should avoid becoming locked-in to systems that aren’t able to support you into the future

•  Under Chain of Responsibility, there are legal responsibilities that accrue to telematics providers

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Don’t use technology to simply fix today’s problems

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