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Interview Report 3

 Author:  Barry Atkinson

Subject:  Mr. Ray Wales

Date:  27 August, 2002.

Location: 10 Lansdale Avenue, Dingley

Topic:  Assignment: Expert System - Knowledge Extraction Interview No.2 

PURPOSE:•  Identify typical subjects for inspection. Using Portland-Nelson Rd as a comparison, identify

subjects of another recent inspection tour.

•  Identify any alternative phases of the process

•  Identify any alternative preconceptions arrived at pre-inspection

•  Identify categories of pre-inspection references

•  Identify general sources of local knowledge who might be consulted as part of the inspection

 process

Main points of interview:1.  Comparison chosen:B500 Great Alpine Road (Wangaratta - Bairnsdale)

•  300km long (compare Portland-Nelson Rd 70km)

•  Extremely varying terrain (compare Portland-Nelson little variety)

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Areas of interest in Great Alpine Road not mentioned in previous interviews.

•  Traffic volume, and consequences, due to large regional city (Wangaratta)

•  Mountainous terrain and prevalence of winding roads

•  Rapidly expanding tourist usage

•  Wide range of usage (slight, seasonal, heavy, year-round) on sections of the same road

•  Shadows a hazard (normal vision, aggravate bad road conditions)

•  Black ice (ice same colour as road surface) as a hazard

•  Very steep drop-off beside roadway

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•  Heavy pedestrian traffic on road in ski villages

•  Proposed development of resorts which impacts on road route

•  Airfield proposal - access to road

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Steep inclines

•  Horseshoe bends

•  Summertime unrestricted cattle grazing around road

•  Seasonal traffic

•  Flood area on some sections of road

•  Fog as hazard (summer and winter)

•  Some sections subject to more local road spending than others

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Length of road precludes continuous guard rail at dangerous areas - reliance on accidentreports for appropriate placement.

•  Advertised warnings of road conditions via public radio, TV

•  Bus, tourist coach traffic

•  Physical hazards (rocks) close to road side

•   Not constantly open (some sections subject to closure due to bad weather)

•  Tunnelling as an option in road building

3. 

Process phases

•  Regardless of road, inspections phases do not vary greatly, although road may be divided

into stages

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Preconceptions

•  Each road involves varied pre-conceptions of terrain and usage

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Pre-inspection references

•  Traffic volume survey. Usage range and variety. Historic (10 year) change in usage. Seasonal

and daily traffic volumes. Urban and tourist area separated.

•  Road Accident Survey (Police) Incidence, comparable areas. State average. Vehicles

involved. Accident type. Varied analysis available.

•  Previous reports by local shire - planning, engineering, land use

•  VicRoads regional office for district

•  Tourist authority - what attractions. Development plans

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6.  Sources of local knowledge

•  Resort developers

•  Local motel operators

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Local bus and transport businesses

•  Resort managers

•  Road maintenance staff of local shires

•  Bus drivers

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