What Road Infrastructure Management (RIM) means for your fleet

By The IntelliTrac team · 16 June 2026 · Compliance & tax

RIM lets fleets share road-use data with the agencies that maintain Australia's roads. Here's what data is collected, how it's de-identified, and why enrolling is worth it.

If you run vehicles in Australia, you'll increasingly hear about RIM — Road Infrastructure Management. It's one of the applications in the National Telematics Framework administered by Transport Certification Australia (TCA), and IntelliTrac is now a registered RIM service provider. Here's what it is, what data it shares, and why it's worth enrolling.

What RIM is

RIM is a way for fleets to contribute road-use data to the agencies that build and maintain Australia's roads. Instead of relying on manual surveys, traffic tubes or one-off counts, enrolled vehicles provide a continuous, low-cost picture of how the network is actually being used — which roads, which times, which kinds of vehicles.

What data is collected — and what isn't

From each enrolled vehicle, RIM collects road-use data: where and when the vehicle travels, and which vehicle it is. Before any of that reaches a road manager, it is aggregated and de-identified through TCA's Telematics Analytics Platform.

That distinction matters. Road managers see patterns of road use across many vehicles, not a live tracking feed of one driver or one operator. The point of RIM is the network, not the individual.

RIM turns the telematics you already run into better-maintained roads — without handing anyone a tracking feed of your drivers.

Why it matters

• Roads planned around real use. Maintenance, upgrades and investment can follow where the network is genuinely carrying load, not where a decade-old survey said it was.
• Lower-cost data collection. Continuous telematics data is far cheaper to gather than repeated manual counts, which helps stretch limited road budgets.
• A contribution, not a cost. For most operators, enrolling means the data already flowing off their vehicles does double duty — running the fleet and helping maintain the roads it depends on.

Where RIM sits in the National Telematics Framework

RIM is one of several TCA applications, each using certified telematics for a different purpose. It's worth knowing the neighbours so you can tell them apart:

• RIM — road-use data for road managers (what this article is about).
• Intelligent Access Program (IAP) — monitored access to specific parts of the network for heavy vehicles.
• Telematics Monitoring Application (TMA) — a lighter-touch monitoring option.
• On-Board Mass (OBM) — verified vehicle mass data.

RIM is about information for the people who maintain the roads. The access and mass programs are separate schemes with their own requirements.

How to enrol

Enrolment happens through a TCA-registered service provider. IntelliTrac is now registered for RIM, so vehicles already running IntelliTrac telematics can be enrolled without new hardware. If you'd like to take part, your account team can walk you through it.

See the announcement — IntelliTrac is now a TCA-registered RIM provider — or talk to us about transport and compliance for your fleet.