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First IAP Service Provider by end of year
Thursday, 18 October 2007
Transport Certification Australia Limited (TCA), the company administering the Intelligent Access Program (IAP), is confident it will announce the certification of its first IAP Service Provider before the end of 2007, taking the program into its ‘IAP Goes Live’ phase.
The news follows a meeting of TCA’s Board of Directors in Melbourne last week.
TCA Chief Executive Mr Chris Koniditsiotis said that the announcement is expected to be the first in a series of IAP Service Provider certifications, with more IAP Service Providers expected to be announced in early 2008.
“Announcement of the first IAP Service Provider will be an important milestone for TCA and for the transport industry in general, signalling the beginning of a series of announcements as the first wave of applicants progress towards certification,” he said.
Mr Koniditsiotis said TCA would continue to place great emphasis on the need to establish a competitive market for IAP services, by ensuring that a number of IAP Service Providers are available to transport operators to service their demands and to maintain competition.
“Achieving this objective must of course recognise the required standards for probity, due diligence and technical and functional capability which applicants need to meet in order to become an IAP Service Provider,” Mr Koniditsiotis said.
Mr Koniditsiotis confirmed that TCA is working with the road authorities to ensure that there is an adequate transition period for transport operators to evaluate the benefits of the IAP, select an IAP Service Provider, and install IAP equipment into their vehicles.
Upon announcing the first IAP Service Provider, the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) will release a further expansion to Higher Mass Limits (HML) access entitlements in New South Wales for vehicles that become fully enrolled under the IAP, and have a certified in-vehicle unit fitted.
The RTA will offer transport operators, pre-enrolled in the IAP, a transition period which will give them time to decide if they want to be fully enrolled under the IAP, to install IAP equipment to vehicles or to wait for additional IAP Service Providers to enter the market. The transition period will be announced before the end of 2007.
TCA also welcomes the Queensland Parliament’s passage of the primary elements of its IAP legislation last week. This paves the way for Queensland to push forward with its implementation of the IAP. It is anticipated that the IAP will become available and operational in the State in the early part of 2008. Queensland’s first IAP application will be managing vehicles accessing its recently expanded HML network. After a transition period to allow adequate time to get the IAP installed, only transport operators participating in the IAP will have access to Queensland’s HML network.
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