Network Watch · QLD traffic concept

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Why I made this

When I saw the role, my first thought was: I've never worked in transport.

So I read your South Australia case study, where operators moved from 11 separate systems to one, with a single alarm manager and a map of every device. I kept picturing that one person at the desk when a dozen things go wrong at once.

Read the case study: STREAMS ITS platform, South Australia (PDF) ↗

What do they look at first, and can they trust it?

This is my own concept. It isn't STREAMS, and I'm not connected to Transmax or Transport and Main Roads.

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My guesses

If I were sitting there, I think I'd want three things.

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Crashes and floods before roadworksThen sort by how serious it is, how many lanes are blocked, and how recent.
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Tell me when something's gone quietIf nobody has updated it in an hour, say so, so I don't act on old info.
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Pick from the list, the map followsNot sure about this one. Some operators might live on the map.

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What I got wrong first

Once I actually used it, a few things were off.

The dark map hid the roads, which is kind of the whole point. I made the main roads brighter.
On a laptop the map got squashed into a thin strip, so the details now sit on top of it.
On a phone the details covered everything. Now the list and details sit in a sheet you drag up or down, and picking an incident leaves the map in view.
The markers didn't show up at first. My code was checking if the map was ready at the wrong time.

I read Transmax's case studies and the QLDTraffic data spec, picked the guesses, built it with Claude Code, and tested it at laptop and phone sizes.

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What I'd ask you

If you're rebuilding a tool operators already know by heart, how do you change it without slowing them down?

What do you look at in the first minute of a motorway crash?
How do you know someone else is already on it?
Which alerts do you just ignore?

I've never been in a control room, so I'm sure some of this is wrong. The closest thing I've actually done is the failure states for a regulated share trade at Liquidise.