Who we are

Transmax is a government-owned transport solutions provider of the international-award-winning ITS platform STREAMS. The company exists to improve people’s quality of life and helps move millions of commuters around Australian road networks every day. We partner with customers to deliver creative solutions that optimise transport networks and support safer and more reliable road journeys.

We place our customers at the centre of everything we do and work collaboratively to ensure our ITS solutions meet their needs. Transmax oﬀers customers systems engineering, software design and development, along with a range of consulting and support services throughout the entire ITS lifecycle, all delivered with customer service excellence.

With more than 50 years of ITS experience, the company helps its customers realise the community beneﬁts of optimising transport networks by providing smarter, more sustainable ITS solutions.

Transmax provides STREAMS to more than 13 traffic management centres (TMCs), and integrates and manages over 100,000 devices in Australia. In addition, the success of the company's ITS platform has resulted in the Colorado Department of Transporation in the USA trialling its STREAMS Smart Motorways product in 2021-22. This trial was a collaboration between Transmax, WSP and Department of Transport, Victoria. Planning is underway for the Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) in California to trial the solution for two years from 2025.

Transmax remains wholly owned by the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads, and is governed by an independent Board of Directors.

First ITS in Australia

The Queensland Department of Main Roads implemented the first ITS in Australia which was located at Surfers Paradise.This included 30 signalised intersections featuring centralised control and traffic responsive capabilities.

1969

First ITS in Brisbane

Transport and Main Roads implemented an ITS in Brisbane. This traffic management system controlled 72 intersections in the Brisbane CBD and those adjacent to the South East Freeway.

1972

John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland Neg No: 189900

Second-generation
ITS was installed

A second-generation ITS was installed in Cairns. This was known as the TRAC
(Traffic Responsive Adaptive Control) System. Progressive installation of the
TRAC System followed at several more sites around Queensland including Brisbane.

1985

New Integrated Intelligent Transport System

The development of a new, integrated ITS started. The objectives were to lower ongoing
costs while providing increased performance and opportunity for future ITS applications.
These objectives were met successfully and the resulting system was STREAMS^®.

1992

Transmax Pty Ltd
was created

The division of TMR responsible for the continuing development of STREAMS
was privatised to form Transmax which remains 100% owned by TMR.

2005

VicRoads and the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure

The South Australian state road authority engaged Transmax to develop and implement a system to manage the three motorways in Adelaide and to replace existing systems. One of the motorways was a reversible road which was changed between fully inbound and outbound twice per day. In Victoria, VicRoads engaged Transmax to develop and implement an ITS that included coordinated ramp metering and the associated field facilities. This was successfully delivered in eight months with a subsequent contract awarded to expand the system to cover the 80 on-ramps of the Monash Freeway.

2007

Extended STREAMS^® functionality

Development commenced on extended functionality for STREAMS to support the Queensland Motorways Gateway Upgrade Project including a Lane Use Management System (LUMS). VicRoads also adopted the STREAMS LUMS functionality, incorporating the ALINEA/HERO suite of algorithms, to manage responses to traffic events on the Monash and West Gate freeways. Transport and Main Roads and Transmax successfully completed a proof-of-concept trial in Bundaberg to explore the benefits of Emergency Vehicle Priority (EVP).

2008

STREAMS^® Analytics and new integrated, rules-based LUMS engine

Development of a business intelligence (STREAMS^® Analytics) platform for STREAMS started. The new STREAMS integrated, rules-based LUMS engine was deployed to help road agencies dynamically manage speed limits, lane closures and ramp metering sites in response to an incident on a motorway. This innovative tool superseded traditional traffic control systems that rely on the accurate specification and utilisation of thousands of discrete traffic management plans covering all of the ‘what if?’ scenarios for a single stretch of road. This functionality is now operational along major transport corridors in Queensland and Victoria.

2010

Tasmania, New South Wales
and the Australian Capital Territory

Tasmania’s Department of State Growth engaged Transmax to deliver STREAMS as Tasmania’s ITS. Transmax was engaged by Roads ACT to provide STREAMS as the ACT’s ITS platform.

2013

Main Roads Western Australia

Transmax was contracted to supply and support Main Roads Western Australia (MRWA) with a STREAMS^® ITS platform for five years.

2014

Brisbane EVP pilot

A Brisbane Emergency Vehicle Priority (EVP) pilot demonstrated that the system can be used effectively with SCATS^® .

2014

EVP Expansion, Utah and Colorado Department of Transportation

Transport and Main Roads and Transmax commenced rollout of Emergency Vehicle Priority to more than 400 intersections in Bundaberg, Townsville, the Gold Coast, Logan, and Brisbane. Transmax formed a partnership with Parsons Brinckerhoff to deliver Smart Motorways consulting services to the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) and Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) in the USA. A successful pilot study of STREAMS^® Managed Motorways functionality was conducted on the Interstate 15 freeway system in Salt Lake City, Utah.

2015

Continued roll out EVP across Queensland

Following a successful EVP pilot, Brisbane City Council rolled out the system to more than 300 council-controlled intersections across 13 road corridors.

2016

Finalised the Unified STREAMS Program (USP), which combined all enhancements made across Australia in the previous six years into a single product branch, and released to customers.

2018 to 2020

Development of STREAMS Gateway, which provides real-time access to the live data collected by STREAMS.

Working with TMR on its Next Generation Traffic Signal Controller (NGTSC).

STREAMS Smart Motorways trial

Five year contract to provide a STREAMS solution and other services to support DIPL to achieve their goal of an integrated regional transport system.

Northern Territory Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics

2021

by the Colorado Department of Transportation in collaboration with WSP and Department of Transport Victoria.

STREAMS Next-Gen

Development on a three-to-four-year program of work to develop the STREAMS Next-Gen platform, and a suite of strategic and tactical ITS products to be hosted on the platform. These products will re-imagine and enhance ITS capabilities beyond what is achievable with current technologies. These future capabilities will enable insights into multi-faceted community mobility, respond to emerging use cases across the ITS landscape and facilitate the evolution from today’s reactive and responsive ITS solutions to a whole new gamut of data-driven analytical, insightful, predictive and proactive ITS solutions.

2022

Images are courtesy of Department of Transport Victoria, the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure South Australia, and the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads, Visual Resource Library.