Ipswich Road Network with Maintenance Responsibility

Road centrelines for the City of Ipswich, including Local, State, and Federal roads. The dataset indicates maintenance responsibility and road hierarchy descriptions. It was published by the Ipswich City Council and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Classify roads by maintenance responsibility (e.g., Local vs. State) using the responsibility attribute for jurisdictional analysis.
• Analyze road hierarchy descriptions to model traffic flow and prioritize infrastructure investment.
• Map the spatial extents of Federal roads within the city for national network connectivity studies.
• Join road centrelines with traffic or accident data using spatial location to assess safety on different road types.

Strengths

• Includes multiple road classifications: Local, State, and Federal.
• Contains specific attributes for maintenance responsibility and road hierarchy.
• Data is current, with a last update in April 2026.

Limitations

• Spatial coverage is limited to the extents of the City of Ipswich, not suitable for regional or national analysis.
• The exact row count and completeness of attribute fields are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Ipswich City Council

Freshness

Updated in April 2026.

Geography

City of Ipswich, Australia