Providing access for higher productivity vehicles travelling to the Erskine Park Employment Area is helping to attract some of the nation’s leading manufacturing, retailing and logistics companies to the Penrith area in Western Sydney.
Penrith City Council has recently approved a total of 12 routes for Higher Mass Limits (HML) access under the Intelligent Access Program (IAP). Significantly, Penrith City Council has stressed that it could not have opened up access to HML vehicles without the route compliance assurance provided by IAP.
According to Hans Meijer, City Works Manager at Penrith City Council, “The IAP provides the Council with a level of compliance assurance that means we are confident that transport operators enrolled in the IAP will comply with conditions to access approved routes.”
“As a result, Penrith City Council has approved requests for HML access on a total of 12 routes,’ said Mr Meijer. ‘Payload increases in the order of 10 per cent to 13 per cent are possible with HML vehicles. This means that significant reductions in fuel consumption, environmental emissions and number of truck trips are possible. These benefits can only be realised because the IAP provides Council with a sufficient level of compliance assurance consistent with its responsibilities as a road asset manager,’ Mr Meijer said.
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