NFDH's National Formal Rest Areas dataset harmonizes location and facility information from state and territory governments to support driver fatigue management. The data is sourced from open data published by Australian jurisdictions and is available in PDF, CSV, and API formats. It was last updated on 2026-05-17.
Use Cases
- Plan long-haul trucking routes based on formal rest area locations.
- Analyze the distribution of rest facilities for driver safety compliance.
- Map national rest stop infrastructure for transportation network studies.
Strengths
- Data is harmonized from multiple jurisdictional sources into a national dataset.
- Includes a linked visualization for spatial exploration of rest area locations and facilities.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- National Freight Data Hub (NFDH), aggregating state and territory government open data.
- Collection Method
- Combined and harmonized from underlying jurisdictional datasets.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-17 03:55:16.401033; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Australia