This is the area of Roads and Maritime Services (replacing Roads and Traffic Authority) responsible for planning, maintaining and managing the whole NSW road network. We run a state-of-the-art program to manage traffic flows on a minute-by-minute basis. To top it off, we're involved in developing planning and maintenance strategies for the road network over the next 25-30 years and beyond.
We have exciting roles for transport planners, transport operations staff, engineering specialists, IT specialists, technicians, communication and media experts, event planners, program managers and network planners.
This extensive depth of work is reflected in the Directorate's total budget of more than $1.5 billion - that is more than 41 per cent of the total Roads and Maritime Services (replacing Roads and Traffic Authority) budget.
Why work here?
If you want to work with some of the world's leading traffic management specialists, using the world's best technology, then this is the place for you.
The directorate has six branches - Strategic Network Planning, Infrastructure Maintenance, Traffic Management, Motorway Management, Transport Management Centre and Business Strategy Branch.
The directorate leads long-term planning, asset maintenance and traffic management to provide a reliable, safe, sustainable, efficient and balanced road network. For anyone who walks, cycles, drives or catches a bus or train then this area of Roads and Maritime Services (replacing Roads and Traffic Authority) will impact on some part of their every day lives.
What's involved?
To give you some idea of the huge scope of our work, here are some of our recent achievements:
- Upgrading pedestrian crossings, the New South Wales bicycle network and major railway level crossings.
- Introducing innovate ways to facilitate the movement of buses throughout the metropolitan area of Sydney.
- Releasing an enhanced version of the Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS) which is now used by 128 cities across 24 countries worldwide, controlling more than 28,000 intersections.
- Implementing cashless tolling in the Sydney Harbour Tunnel to allow for reduced travel times through the tunnel.
- Developing a network planning strategy for Sydney over the next 10 years.
- Playing a lead role in the successful delivery of APEC in September 2007, World Youth Day in 2008, Sydney's annual New Year's Eve Fireworks and resolving other major traffic management challenges, using the technology and resources of Roads and Maritime Services' (replacing Roads and Traffic Authority) high-tech Transport Management Centre.