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Publish Date : 13-Jun-2017

The National Transport Commission (NTC) today released a new work program designed to enable next-generation mobility through more responsive regulation. Chief Executive of the NTC Paul Retter today said next-generation mobility options, such as automated vehicles, ride-sharing and other on demand transport services would be facilitated by increased access to digital information. These changes are likely to transform Australias transport sector over the next two decades.

He said the work program would help to deliver on a request from Australias transport ministers to identify and remove regulatory barriers that may prevent or delay the deployment of more innovative transport products and services in the future.

Our new work program includes a number of new projects aimed at ensuring Australias transport laws can support the safe commercial deployment of more innovative transport solutions, such as automated vehicles, Mr Retter said.

The NTC also released a strategic analysis report called Land Transport Regulation 2040 which identified a number of plausible future scenarios Australia could face over the course of the next two decades. We have been meeting with stakeholders across Australia to find out how we could or should regulate transport in the medium and longer term future, Mr Retter said.

For example, Australia could choose to adopt less prescriptive road transport laws, like those that apply to national rail safety to further encourage innovation in our road transport sector. For sensible reasons Australias road transport laws were drafted in a prescriptive way.

But we need to think about whether this is the right approach for the future. Prescriptive laws can take time to update as every new transport product and every new technology is rolled out. Given the likelihood of significant changes in technology, market structures and consumer demand for transport services over the next two decades, we need to make our road transport laws more resilient and more responsive.

The NTCs work program contains two further proposals to help deal with this key finding: one to look at ways to remove barriers in our road rules and vehicle standards rules to more innovative vehicles, and one to develop more technology-neutral road rules for driver distraction.

We have a track record of partnering with states and territories, local governments and the Australian Government to design nationally consistent reforms to our laws. In doing so we need to balance managing safety risk with encouraging innovation. The NTCs new work program and the Land Transport Regulation 2040 Report are available on the NTC website.

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