Traffic flow data from the Government and Municipalities of Québec, published on the open_canada platform. The dataset is available in multiple geospatial and tabular formats, including XML, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, CSV, and XLS. It was last updated on 2026-04-22 and is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
Use Cases
- Modeling traffic congestion based on flow data.
- Planning transportation infrastructure based on regional mobility patterns.
- Conducting geospatial analysis of traffic networks using the provided vector formats.
- Forecasting traffic demand for specific areas in Québec.
Strengths
- Available in multiple interoperable formats, including geospatial standards (KML, SHP, GEOJSON) and tabular formats (CSV, XLS).
- Licensed under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
- Last updated on 2026-04-22, indicating recent maintenance.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and spatial/temporal granularity are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec
- Collection Method
- Likely collected via government and municipal traffic monitoring systems.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-22 18:32:30.885420; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Québec, Canada