Most traffic related comms is done on talk group 9808. but, I have have monitored activity on the following talk groups as well - 9824, 9872, 10064 and 10080

also are heard occastionally on 78.900, 468.750 (channel x) in Newcastle

 

Some callsigns for the various units involved are listed below.

Traffic Operations Room :

TMC - general callsign ( used on both RTA and VKG )

Tango 1 - Manager Traffic Operations Room

Tango 1-2 - Chief Traffic Operations Controller ( day chief ) referred to as CTOC.

Tango 1-3 - CTOC ( shift chief )

Tango 4 to 10 - Senior TOC ( incident managers ), one is allocated to each quadrant at all times. Traffic Command Unit

RTA 1 Senior Traffic Commander

RTA 2 and 3 - Traffic Commanders Alpha Quadrant - Sydney ( southern suburbs ) + CBD

RTA 4 and 5 - Traffic Commanders Bravo Quadrant - Sydney ( northern beaches and north shore )

RTA 6 and 7 - Traffic Commanders Charlie Quadrant - Sydney ( north western suburbs )

RTA 8 and 9 - Traffic Commanders Delta Quadrant - Sydney ( south west suburbs )

RTA 10 - Relieving Traffic Commander ( all quadrants )

RTA 20 and 21 - Traffic Commanders Central Coast

RTA 22 and 23 - Traffic Commanders Newcastle

RTA 24 - Auxiliary Traffic Commander Newcastle and Central Coast

 

All Traffic Commanders Use this callsign on both RTA and VKG radio networks

Traffic Emergency Patrols

Oscar 1 - Manager, Driver Aid Services Unit

Oscar 1-3 and 1-4 - TEP Supervisors

Oscar 1-5 - OH&S ant Training Officer

Oscar 2 - Charlie Quadrant Patrol

Oscar 3 - F3 Freeway Patrol Wahroonga - Kariong

Oscar 4 - M4 Motorway Patrol entire length

Oscar 5 - Delta Quadrant Patrol

Oscar 6 - Alpha Quadrant Patrol

Oscar 6-1 - Airport tunnel Tidal Flow Operations

Oscar 7 - CBD Patrol - Sydney City

Oscar 8 - CBD Patrol

Oscar 20 - F3 Freeway Hawkesbury river - Doyalson area

Additional crews can operated using callsigns such as Oscar 3-1 ( spoken as Oscar three one ) to signify an extra truck on a particular patrol.

 

There are dozens of other callsigns, but these are the important ones.

To keep this list updated your help is needed. Please email us with your findings.

 

Thank you Nathan for helping with this so far.

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