Roads and Maritime Services

Roads and Maritime Services
Agency overview

Formed	1 November 2011 (2011-11-01)
Preceding agencies	Roads & Traffic Authority NSW Maritime
Type	Statutory authority
Jurisdiction	New South Wales
Headquarters	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Employees	6,900
Minister responsible	Duncan Gay, Minister for Roads and Freight
Agency executive	Peter Duncan, Chief Executive Officer
Parent department	Transport for New South Wales
Website	www.rms.nsw.gov.au

Roads and Maritime Services (also known as Roads & Maritime Services) is an agency of the New South Wales Government responsible for building and maintaining road infrastructure and managing the day-to-day compliance and safety for roads and waterways.^[1]

The Agency was created on 1 November 2011 from a merger of the Roads & Traffic Authority and NSW Maritime. Planning responsibilities were transferred to Transport for New South Wales, which was created on the same day.

Functions

Roads and Maritime Services manages 4,787 bridges and 17,623 km (10,950 mi) of state roads and highways, including 3,105 km (1,929 mi) of national highways, and employs 6,900 staff in more than 180 offices throughout NSW, including 129 Motor Registries Offices.

Vehicle registration

Motor Registry Office with the former RTA branding in Wagga Wagga

Roads and Maritime Services is responsible for the registration of vehicles (including the issuing of registration plates) and the issuing of Drivers licences in New South Wales, including testing and administering of licences. Additionally, RMS produces photo cards for identification of non-drivers and issues photographic firearms licences for the New South Wales Police Firearms Registry, security licences also for the New South Wales Police, Commercial Agents & Private Inquiry Agents cards and Mobility Parking Permits.

Major incident response

Traffic Emergency Patrol

Within NSW, the Transport Management Centre is responsible for managing special events and unplanned incidents and disseminating information to motorists.^[2] It is the central point for identifying and directing the response to incidents such as crashes, breakdowns and spills. It passes on information to the public through the media, the RMS call centre and variable message signs along routes.^[3]

In 1999 the NSW Transport Management Centre (TMC) established Traffic Commander and Traffic Emergency Patrol (TEP) services throughout the Greater Urban Area of Sydney to provide 24-hour 365-day-a-year coverage to "Manage the traffic arrangements around an incident scene and return the road to normal operating conditions with the utmost urgency."^[4]

Traffic Commanders take command of traffic management arrangements at an incident (such as a motor vehicle collision) and liaise with other response agencies such as the Police, and assist in clearing the road and minimising the effects and disruption to traffic.^[5] Traffic Commanders exercise command and control of RMS resources at the outer perimeter with regard to traffic management such as the coordination of Traffic Emergency Patrols.^[6] Traffic Emergency Patrols vans patrol major road routes and respond to unplanned incidents with the aim of returning the road to normal operating conditions as soon as possible.^[4] Both Traffic Commanders and TEP units carry a wide array of traffic management devices such as traffic cones, barrier boards and road signage.^[7] Both also are permitted to use and display red and blue emergency lighting and are designated as 'emergency vehicles'.^[8]

'Role of the TMC' The current Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between various Government agencies in NSW states that the TMC has the following responsibilities:^[9]

The TMC will:

Traffic Emergency Patrol assisting with a road closure during a serious motor vehicle collision.

Coordinate RMS/TNSW Traffic Commanders or appropriate resources to incidents on the road network.
Accept responsibility for traffic management from the incident inner perimeter or event perimeter into the rest of the road network.
Clear the road and make it safe.
Communicate traffic management arrangements to the media.
Assist in the timely provision of heavy lift and other towing/salvage services to clear the road.
Provide close support to the Site Controller for traffic control within an incident outer perimeter.
Develop and deploy Traffic Emergency Patrol (TEP) teams for specific routes.
Develop a joint framework and lead in the development of traffic management plans and incident response plans.
Coordinate the response of specialised resources to support traffic management.
At the request of Police or a Combat Agency, display warnings and alerts on the Variable Message Signs (VMS) in accordance with approved guidelines. This may include warnings associated with bushfires and floods.
Assist in the conduct of Green Light Corridors

Car ferry services

Wisemans Ferry

As part of its duty to provide major road infrastructure, RMS is responsible for the provision of several car ferries. These ferries are all toll-free, and include:^[10]^[11]

Berowra Waters Ferry, across Berowra Waters
Lawrence Ferry, across the Clarence River
Mortlake Ferry, across the Parramatta River in Sydney
Sackville Ferry, across the Hawkesbury River near the village of Sackville
Speewa Ferry, across the Murray River between New South Wales and Victoria
Ulmarra Ferry, across the Clarence River
Webbs Creek Ferry, across the Hawkesbury River in the village of Wisemans Ferry
Wisemans Ferry, across the Hawkesbury River in the village of Wisemans Ferry
Wymah Ferry, across the Murray River between New South Wales and Victoria

Lighthouses

Tacking Point Lighthouse

RMS is responsible for light operation in the following 13 lighthouses:^[12]

Key building projects

Key road building projects that Roads and Maritime Services are undertaking either directly, through contractors or via public/private partnerships, include:

On-going completion of a four-lane dual carriageway of the Princes Highway from the Jervis Bay turnoff to link up with the Sydney Orbital Network near Mascot and on-going completion of the upgrading of the Pacific Highway to continuous dual carriageway (minimum four-lane) standard between the Hexham and Tweed Heads, by 2020.

References

↑ "Roads and maritime services agency effective from today" (PDF) (Press release). Government of New South Wales. 1 November 2011. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
↑ http://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/tmc
↑ "Annual Report 2002" (PDF). Roads & Traffic Authority.
1 2 "Re: Dedicated Major Incident Response Team". National Transportation Operations Coalition. 2001-09-10.
↑ http://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/b2b/publications/mou_management_of_road_and_traffic_incidents.pdf
↑ Up for the challenge|Sydney traffic commander Shane Bentley| RTA. News.drive.com.au (2010-05-07). Retrieved on 2013-09-07.
↑ Traffic incident response < F3 Freeway < Using roads < Roads & Maritime Services. Rta.nsw.gov.au (2011-11-03). Retrieved on 2013-09-07.
↑ http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/registration/downloads/vsi/vsi_08_flashing_lights_and_sirens_rev_4_1__nov_2010.pdf
↑ http://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/b2b/publications/mou_management_of_road_and_traffic_incidents.pdf
↑ "Vehicle ferries". Roads & Traffic Authority. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
↑ "Contract Notice RTA.07.2547.0089". Roads & Traffic Authority. Retrieved 2008-12-27.
↑ "Lighthouse Lights - NSW Maritime". maritime.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 3 October 2010.

External links

Departments and agencies of the New South Wales Government

New South Wales Government

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Finance and Services	Service NSW Office of State Revenue Valuer General NSW Self Insurance Corporation Motor Vehicle Repair Industry Authority Government Property NSW Teacher Housing Authority of New South Wales Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Fund Building Insurers' Guarantee Corporation State Records Authority New South Wales Government Telecommunications Authority Motor Accidents Authority WorkCover Authority Board of Surveying and Spatial Information Building Professionals Board NSW Architects Registration Board Rental Bond Board Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority Luna Park Reserve Trust Internal Audit Bureau NSW Fair Trading Waste Assets Management Corporation Geographic Names Board NSW Public Works (including the Government Architect)

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Transport	Independent Transport Safety Regulator NSW Trains Office of Transport Safety Investigations Port Authority of New South Wales RailCorp Roads & Maritime Services State Transit Authority Sydney Ferries Sydney Trains Transport for NSW WestConnex Delivery Authority

Treasury	Liability Management Ministerial Corporation Long Service Corporation NSW Treasury Corporation (TCorp) Office of Industrial Relations Residual Business Management Corporation SAS Trustee Corporation State Rail Authority Residual Holding Corporation

Road infrastructure in Sydney

Motorways, freeways and expressways	Cahill Expressway Eastern Distributor General Holmes Drive Gore Hill Freeway M2 Hills Motorway Pacific Motorway Princes Motorway Southern Cross Drive M5 South Western Motorway Warringah Freeway Western Distributor M4 Western Motorway Westlink M7

Numbered routes	M1/A1 M2/A2 A3 M4/A4 M5 A6 M7 A8 A9 A22 A28 M31 A36 A38 A44

Major interchanges	Light Horse Interchange Roden Cutler Interchange

Bridges	Alfords Point Anzac Captain Cook De Burghs Endeavour Fig Tree Fullers Gladesville Glebe Island (closed to traffic) Iron Cove Lennox Macquarie Culvert Peats Ferry Pyrmont Roseville Ryde Silverwater The Spit Sydney Harbour Tarban Creek Tom Uglys Victoria Windsor Woronora River

Tunnels	Cross City Lane Cove M5 East Sydney Harbour

Vehicle ferries	Berowra Waters Lower Portland Mortlake Sackville Webbs Creek Wisemans

Proposals	NorthConnex (under construction) North Western Expressway (abandoned) F6 extension (proposed) Sydney Orbital Network Sydney Bypasses (past, present and proposed) WestConnex (under construction) Western Sydney Airport Motorway (proposed)

Templates	Streets of Sydney

Categories	Streets in Sydney Highways in Sydney

Operators	Roads & Maritime Services Connector Motorways Transurban

Transport in Sydney

Public transport in Sydney

Train

Sydney Trains	T1 North Shore, Northern & Western T2 Airport, Inner West & South T3 Bankstown T4 Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra T5 Cumberland T6 Carlingford T7 Olympic Park

Sydney Metro	Northwest Rapid Transit (operator) Sydney Metro Northwest (under construction) Sydney Metro City & Southwest (proposed)

Infrastructure	List of Sydney railway lines List of Sydney Trains railway stations Sydney rail rolling stock

Bus

Services	Liverpool–Parramatta T-way Local routes Metrobus NightRide North-West T-way Rapid routes Suburban routes 144 190 400

Operators	Busabout Busways Forest Hillsbus Interline Punchbowl Bus Company State Transit Transdev Transit Systems

Ferry

Sydney Ferries	F1 Manly F2 Taronga Zoo F3 Parramatta River F4 Darling Harbour F5 Neutral Bay F6 Mosman F7 Eastern Suburbs Harbour City Ferries

Other	Captain Cook Cruises Church Point Ferry Cronulla and National Park Ferry Cruises Hawkesbury River Ferries Manly Fast Ferry Palm Beach Ferry

Light Rail

L1 Dulwich Hill
CBD & South East (under construction)
Parramatta (proposed)

Point-to-point

Ticketing

Government

Road authorities in Australia

Roads and Maritime Services (NSW) VicRoads (VIC) Department of Transport and Main Roads (Qld) Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (SA) Main Roads Western Australia (WA) Department of State Growth (Tas) Department of Transport (NT) Road Transport Authority (ACT)

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