Driver Advisory System (Revoked)

Driver Advisory System (Revoked) is a land and sea transport project located across the regional rail network of Victoria, radiating outward from the major city of Melbourne. It was registered by V/LINE PTY LTD in December 2015 and applies to a fleet of vehicles rather than a specific static land area.

Land and sea transport projects involve reducing the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of transport services by replacing or modifying existing vehicles, changing energy sources, or improving operational practices. The emissions avoided are calculated by measuring the total emissions intensity (such as emissions per vehicle kilometre travelled) before and after the project implementation.

Because V/Line operates passenger train services across all of regional Victoria, the project's geographic footprint intersects a wide variety of environments. Regional Victoria includes diverse land uses ranging from grazing and broadacre cropping to native forestry. Environmental conditions across this network vary significantly, spanning from semi-arid climates with sandy loam soils in the state's northwest Mallee region, to high-rainfall temperate zones with heavy volcanic basalt and clay soils in the southwest and eastern regions.

This project was established to reduce emissions by implementing a Driver Advisory System on V/Line's diesel trains. Advanced driver advisory technologies function as an intelligent control system, giving train drivers real-time advice on optimal speed, braking, and route geography to maximize fuel efficiency and minimize carbon emissions. The V/Line rail fleet includes older Clyde/General Motors locomotive-hauled H-sets and N-sets, as well as newer self-propelled diesel VLocity trains. The project was officially revoked in March 2020 under section 30 of the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) Rule, a regulatory mechanism generally applied when a proponent voluntarily requests a project's cancellation or administrative reporting requirements are no longer being met.