C-ITS best practice tender for Australia & New Zealand

A move to make cooperative ITS (C-ITS) implementations easier in Australia and New Zealand has been put out to tender.

Austroads, the association of transport agencies, representing all levels of government in the two countries, is inviting bidders to come up with best-practice guidelines which support the "repeatable implementation" of C-ITS projects.

The project will be delivered in three phases:

Focus on leveraging the outcomes of the iMove 1-083 C-ITS Harmonisation project and Connected Automated Vehicle Initiative (CAVI) projects to document how C-ITS has been integrated in real-world Australian and New Zealand environments.

Draw on best practice from both international deployments and local implementation, engaging with jurisdictions and technology partners to refine the C-ITS solution design for key use cases including signal phasing and timing advanced red-light warnings, and priority for public transport and emergency vehicles.

Consolidate this work into a set of scalable design patterns and implementation-ready resources, which are able to be used for either DSRC or C-V2X-based C-ITS deployments, with supporting material.

The conclusion will be a final playbook for jurisdictions to refer to as they set up their C-ITS ecosystems and a briefing to the Austroads taskforce to support national alignment.

This will include repeatable, usable design patterns for C-ITS deployment; summary of best practice deployment worldwide; and advice for road agencies when deploying C-ITS in their own, specific environments.

Click here to access the details of VTD6619: Develop C-ITS implementation documentation for Australia and New Zealand.

Applications must be in next week, Tuesday 26 August 2025, by 3pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.