HI Matthew,

 

Firstly many apologies for not responding your request earlier and you
having to chase this up.

 

To address your questions,

 

Has the Wellington smart motorway achieved its goal of using the metanet
software to “ take over monitoring and scanning the peak traffic –
decisions on when to react and what to do will be "enshrined within the
software of Metanet”?

 

Yes, Wellington did achieve this goal and now uses software to aid in the
management of peak traffic. It should be noted that we do not have
hundreds of sensors that are commented in the Stuff article however.

 

Also can you confirm that the metanet software is working as it was
designed and the control centre is not having to manually adjust speeds on
the motorway?

 

Yes, Although some manual intervention of setting speed limits is still
required at times.

 

Examples of when manual operations still required include when Traffic
detection devices or speed display devices are faulty and data is not
provided or Road Speed control plans need to be reviewed or amended by a
real time operator at the operations control centre, or when traffic
conditions vary from  the ‘normalised/modelled’ traffic conditions the
system is configured to recognise i.e. during incidents or crashes that
cause lane closures or significantly impact traffic flow.  

 

I hope this answers your questions.

 

Many thanks

 

 

Gill Nightingale

WTOC Manager

 

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
Wellington Traffic Operations Centre
9 Arthur Carman Street, Johnsonville,
Wellington, New Zealand

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Subject: Official Information request - The Wellington smart motorway

 

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Dear New Zealand Transport Agency,

 

Has the Wellington smart motorway achieved its goal of using the metanet
software to “ take over monitoring and scanning the peak traffic –
decisions on when to react and what to do will be "enshrined within the
software of Metanet”?

 

As quoted in the stuff article ‘
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Also can you confirm that the metanet software is working as it was
designed and the control centre is not having to manually adjust speeds on
the motorway?

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Matthew McGrath

 

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