The Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC) provided funding to Logan City Council in 2023 to pilot the deployment of Advanced Mobility Analytics Group’s (AMAG) Safe Mobility Alert Real Time (SMART). This technology can be used in high profile, problematic locations to provide observational and predictive analysis and improvement in transport management, operations and planning-level decision making.
This pilot has recently been successfully completed and involved this SMART technology being deployed at four major Logan intersections. Insights generated particularly around near misses can then be used to consider how to improve road safety within their region. This included identified sites at an increased risk of rear end crashes, which remain the predominant crash type resulting in a claim to the Queensland CTP scheme.
Kin Kan, the Principal Traffic Engineer from the Council provided his thoughts around this project.
“Thanks to funding from MAIC, Logan City Council is using innovative technology to improve road safety. Partnering with AMAG, we have deployed this technology, to identify near miss incidents through Ai-powered analysis,” Mr Kan said.
“Heatmaps generated from this technology highlight potential conflict zones, allowing our team to investigate issues relating to driving behaviours and pedestrian crossings in particular. This project is in line with Council’s commitment to support ongoing safety improvement across Logan’s roads.”
Insurance Commissioner Neil Singleton said MAIC was delighted to partner with Logan City Council as a means of enhancing road safety within this growing region.
“On the back of a similar project with Gold Coast City Council, it is pleasing to see Logan reporting similar benefits from this technology and their intention to expand its usage into the future to reduce road trauma,” Mr Singleton said.
“With the Logan area having approximately 2,200 claims submitted to the Queensland CTP scheme between 2018 -2021, use of this technology and the implementation of potential countermeasures by Council will provide a new approach to aid in reducing these numbers into the future.
“I would also like to acknowledge the team at AMAG and wish them well in their future endeavours in making their technology more widely available.”