Bruce Highway Planning Project—Pine River to Caloundra Road
The department has delivered a planning project to investigate and prioritise upgrades to the Bruce Highway between the Pine River and Caloundra Road.
Preliminary design work activities for the Bruce Highway – Pine River to Caloundra Road Smart Motorways Stage 2 project are now underway.
The project will deliver additional Smart Motorways technology along the 60km link of the Bruce Highway between the Pine River and Caloundra Road interchange.
This will further expand the network of Smart Motorways technology that has been operating on the Bruce Highway southbound between Uhlmann Road and the Pine River since 2015.
Smart Motorways technology manages traffic in real-time to reduce stop-start travel, improve safety, and offer more reliable travel times.
The project is jointly funded by the Australian and Queensland governments on an 80:20 basis.
The business case was completed in November 2020. Some early detailed design activities are now underway for the Smart Motorways Stage 2 project, with detailed design scheduled to be completed in mid-2021. Construction is due to commence in early 2022, weather and construction conditions permitting.
As part of the early works activities, Wireless Traffic Sensors (WTS) will be installed at priority locations along the 60km stretch of the Bruce Highway and at other locations of the adjoining network. WTS use Bluetooth technology that anonymously identify individual cars as they pass a sensor location, and are used to monitor travel times, traffic flow and speed. These additional sensors will provide the coverage and resolution necessary to accurately monitor the performance of the highway in real-time.
Last updated: 16 March 2021