Cohda to supply wireless gear for NSW road safety trial

Australian connected vehicle technology company Cohda Wireless will supply equipment for a NSW government road safety trial near Wollongong.

The company will supply 95 anti-collision devices for the five-year Cooperative Intelligent Transport Initiative (CITI) trial, which is due to commence by the middle of the year.

Along the road selected for use in the trial, most crashes involve heavy vehicles, and 13 people died in crashes in the three years leading up to 2011.

The first phase of the trial will involve fitting Cohda devices to 30 heavy vehicles for use on the road - a 42 km route from Port Kembla to the Hume Highway-Picton Road interchange. The trial will ultimately involve 85 onboard units and 10 roadside units.

NSW Centre for Road Safety manager of road safety technology John Wall said the goal with the CITI project is to “establish Australia’s first long-term test area for cooperative intelligent transport systems. The hard data we gather from vehicles up to 10 times per second as part of the project will assist us to measure the road safety benefits of this new technology.”

Cohda’s systems are designed to allow vehicles to wirelessly communicate data including vehicle position, direction and speed with each other.