A Cooperative-Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) central station is a critical technology component to enable a deployed C-ITS ecosystem. It acts as an information broker, facilitating the exchange of C-ITS messages with equipped vehicles, infrastructure, and other centres to enable various safety use cases that benefit both road users and authorities.  These use cases can improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability, such as advanced red-light warnings, speed advice and road works alerts. 

The Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) developed a bespoke, secure, Central Facility for its Ipswich Connected Vehicle Pilot (ICVP), which supported safety use cases by sharing European standards compliant messages. Through its development, the scope expanded, and the product evolved, to include data ingestion, message creation and visualisation, monitoring and reporting, networking, device configuration and management, and system maintenance. It is currently used in cross-jurisdictional efforts towards national harmonisation (expanding coverage for use by other jurisdictions), as well as for aligning with international standards, sourcing data improvement, and the delivery, operation, and maintenance of C-ITS infrastructure. Additionally, the Central Facility is flexible enough to support future standards, data sources, and national alignment, such as centre-to-centre communication and national access points.

This presentation will detail the Central Facility's journey from a pilot enabler tool to a flexible C-ITS platform ready to support cross-jurisdictional trials and deployments. It will describe the enhancements made to the infrastructure, the benefits of the Central Facility, and the potential for its use in future C-ITS deployments across Australia.