The Torrens-to-Torrens Alliance (T2T) has won the South Australian 2018 Engineering Excellence Award for the upgrade of one of South Australia's busiest road corridors.

The north-south corridor features a 4km ‘non-stop roadway’ with 3km of lowered motorway through Adelaide’s inner western suburbs. The innovative design is expected to reduce congestion on the roads and significantly improve travel times for road users.

The Alliance comprises of CPB Contractors, Aurecon and the South Australian Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Transport (DPTI) – who are working on the $800 million dollar venture. SAGE Automation is proud to have delivered the Intelligent Transport System (ITS) for the Alliance.  

SAGE Automation CEO Adrian Fahey puts the Alliance's success to its collaborative project delivery model, which is focused on delivering the best project outcomes and ensuring the very latest innovation is implemented; a positive change for the civil construction industry. 

“We are thrilled to have worked with the Alliance in such a collaborative model and are excited they have received such a prestigious award”, Mr Fahey said.

“The partnership has been a great success, making substantial progress and managing to deliver against critical milestones," he said.

The Engineering Excellence award recognises outstanding achievements in engineering and the invaluable contribution it makes to the economy, community and environment. 

Find out more about the DPTI T2T Alliance Project in the submission video: 

SAGE's role in the project

As part of the project, SAGE incorporated state-of-the-art ITS technology, featuring numerous ‘industry firsts’.

The motorway is Australia’s only to boast continuous thermal and CCTV incident detection coverage along the entire stretch of road. The infra-red system is considered more reliable and accurate, and will enable operators to detect motorway incidents much faster (in less than 5 seconds).

In yet another Australian first, all field cabinet data has been digitised and labelled with 2D barcodes. A maintenance operator can simply scan these labels to receive detailed information at his/her fingertips.

The project is South Australia’s first managed motorway where all VMS are full-colour pictorial, displaying pictograms and travel time information: green for smooth flowing traffic and red for traffic delays.

The project delivery itself featured several ground-breaking innovations, including:

• Digitising the commissioning process via iPad to save paper and prevent double handling;
• An innovative, off-site Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) testing process which sped up commissioning and minimised live traffic works;
• And applying a superior anti-graffiti film to all field cabinets, to assist maintaining community amenities.

Read how SAGE delivered Victoria's longest managed motorway project which included 1200 ITS components and 103 control cabinets on 44km of motorway: