Traffic cameras and CCTV
Traffic Operations Centre staff use surveillance cameras to spot incidents on the road network.
Staff also have access to cameras from other traffic stakeholders such as Linkt (CityLink), EastLink and Peninsula Link taking the total number of cameras used to monitor the network to more than 1,600 cameras.
TOC staff use this technology to respond to public concerns, assist the media with traffic reports, and monitor congestion and roadworks.
These cameras are for real-time traffic and incident monitoring and as such, no recordings are routinely made.
Traffic CCTV
Department of Transport and Planning has permanent cameras placed at strategic locations across the network.
In addition to permanent CCTV operations, temporary CCTV activities are regularly undertaken state-wide.
The temporary CCTV activities are undertaken to monitor and evaluate infrastructure projects delivered by Department of Transport and Planning to understand whether that infrastructure is performing as intended.
A range of road-user behaviour data is collected from this type of CCTV to inform this monitoring and evaluation, including, but not limited to, traffic volume, traffic composition, level of service, travel speed, lane positioning and headway.