The National Road Transport Technology Strategy and 2024-27 National Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) Action Plan were agreed by all jurisdictions through the Infrastructure and Transport Ministers’ Meeting (ITMM).
The Strategy and Action Plan support nationally harmonised, safe and responsible adoption of road transport technologies so that road users across Australia can benefit from them. Through the Strategy and Action Plan, Commonwealth, state and territory governments are working together to harness the benefits of new technologies and manage their risks.
The Strategy sets out ITMM’s vision for a safer, more efficient, productive, sustainable and accessible transport system through adoption of new technologies. It outlines the policy leadership, regulatory stewardship and targeted investment roles of governments, and provides a set of nine principles to guide government action in supporting technology rollouts.
The Action Plan is refreshed every four years and sets out national short- to medium-term priority actions. The 2024-27 Action Plan focuses on three workstreams:
- Vehicle automation – continuing work underway to develop the national regulatory framework for automated vehicles
- Vehicle connectivity – developing a national C-ITS roadmap building on the nationally agreed Principles for a National Approach to Co-operative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) in Australia
- Cross-cutting actions supporting CAVs – considering the treatment of connected and automated vehicles under relevant laws, data sharing, workforce impacts, supporting infrastructure, accessibility of vehicle technologies, and sustainability impacts.
Progress on implementing the Action Plan will be reported annually.
National Policy Framework for Land Transport Technology and associated Action Plans
The Strategy replaces the National Policy Framework for Land Transport Technology. The 2024-27 Action Plan builds on the two previous action plans under the National Policy Framework – the National Land Transport Technology Action Plan 2020-2023 and National Land Transport Technology Action Plan 2016-2019.
The Annual Progress Review reports for the 2020-2023 Action Plan can be accessed below: