Montreal Heavy Vehicle Traffic Regulations and Prohibited Areas

Geographic datasets detail trucking regulations and prohibited zones for heavy vehicles within the Montreal agglomeration. The data includes a line dataset for regulatory requirements and a polygon dataset identifying areas restricted to trucks, excluding local deliveries. It is provided by the Government and Municipalities of Québec.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial distribution of truck-prohibited areas from the surface dataset for urban logistics planning
• Integrate wired dataset of regulatory requirements with road networks for compliance routing applications
• Map zones where local delivery exceptions apply using the surface dataset's attribute data

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple standard geospatial formats including SHP, GPKG, and GEOJSON
• Maintained by an authoritative government source, the Government and Municipalities of Québec
• Updated recently, with a last recorded update in March 2026

Limitations

• No quantitative metadata such as row count, file size, or specific column names is provided
• Original description was machine-translated, which may introduce ambiguity in data interpretation

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec

Collection Method

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Time Range

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Freshness

Updated March 2026.

Geography

Agglomeration of Montreal, Quebec, Canada