The six-month, $15 million pilot will cover 22 intersections along Logan Road and 15 on the Kelvin Grove Road corridor. According to council information reported by ABC News, cameras and software will estimate traffic volumes and queue lengths, then recommend signal sequences for cars, public transport, freight, cyclists and pedestrians.
Council transport chair Ryan Murphy said human operators would remain in the loop and the council would determine the system’s priorities. He also said faces and number plates would be blurred and collected data would be retained in Brisbane.
The council says comparable technology used overseas has the potential to reduce average travel times and rear-end crashes, but those figures are projections rather than measured results from the Brisbane trial. The pilot will be assessed before any wider rollout across the city’s intersection network.
Illustration disclosure: The featured image is an AI-generated editorial illustration. It is not a photograph of a Brisbane intersection or the trial technology.
