Australian infrastructure advisory and technology firm offering road-user-charging strategy, passage detection and distance-based charging systems.
CBS Group Pty Ltd is an Australian infrastructure advisory, systems-engineering and technology business founded by Jeff Dusting and Jim Ellwood. It works across transport, utilities, energy, resources and major construction, combining senior consulting teams with proprietary analytical and operational platforms. The company lists public agencies and infrastructure operators in both Australia and New Zealand among its clients, including Auckland Transport and the City Rail Link alliance. Road pricing is a defined part of the firm's transport practice. CBS advises on tolling strategy, road-user-charging policy, technology selection, compliance design and system integration. Its IRIS passage-detection platform combines information from existing roadside cameras and other detection inputs, while IRIS+ is presented as a method of converting passage events into route and distance-based charging. CBS says the platform uses Bayesian data fusion to improve identification accuracy and reduce manual exception processing. CBS is not a retail RUC provider and no New Zealand RUC-system contract was identified. Its relevance is at the advisory, detection, architecture and integration layers: the work needed to design charging rules, select roadside or account technologies, join events into journeys, minimise leakage and integrate a scheme with operator and government systems. Claims about percentage accuracy, revenue recovery and client savings are CBS's own case-study figures and should be read as supplier claims rather than independently audited market benchmarks.
Policy, revenue-model and customer-experience advice for passage, distance and demand-based road charging.
Passage-detection and transaction-fusion platform intended to combine camera and system evidence, improve identification and reduce exception processing.
Distance-based charging extension that associates high-confidence passage events with route mapping to calculate use across road segments.
Technology-neutral assessment, procurement support and integration planning for ANPR, roadside and central platforms.
Enforcement and behavioural design balancing detection, incentives, penalties, privacy and customer experience.
Proprietary asset-planning framework used to structure investment, lifecycle and performance decisions.
Architecture, data, analytics and integration services for transport, roads, tunnels and other critical infrastructure.
Passage fusion and distance-charging platform
Combines detection events and route information to improve the confidence of vehicle identification and support transaction creation.
Infrastructure advisory platforms
CBS's proprietary tools supporting asset strategy, systems analysis and decision-making beyond tolling.
CBS Group Pty Ltd became active as an Australian private company.
Before CBS was established, its founders built careers in asset management, systems engineering and safety-critical infrastructure; the company describes more than 65 years of combined founder experience.
CBS reported an Asset Management Council Innovation Award for its CAPITAL framework.
The company reported an Infrastructure Sustainability Council award linked to its systems-thinking work.
CBS published detailed road-user-charging services covering tolling policy, technology selection, compliance and IRIS platform deployment.
IRIS+ was presented as a route-mapping extension intended to support distance-based charging from passage-detection data.
CBS continued to list transport work for government agencies, toll operators and New Zealand infrastructure clients.
Founder, Director and Strategic Adviser
More than 25 years in asset management, systems engineering and commercial strategy for critical infrastructure.
Founder, Director and Principal Consultant
More than 25 years delivering strategic and technical work across transport, defence and utilities.
CBS explicitly offers road-user-charging strategy and distance-based charging technology. It could participate as an adviser, passage-detection supplier or systems integrator in a future New Zealand scheme, but is not an NZTA-approved RUC provider and no awarded New Zealand RUC contract was found.
