Unplanned Road Closures in the Australian Capital Territory

A real-time JSON feed and map of unplanned road closures within the Australian Capital Territory. The dataset includes closure types such as light rail, road works, emergency, and inclement weather, with fields for start and end times in Unix format and geographic coordinates. It is maintained by the ACT Government's TCCS.

Use Cases

• Analyze closure frequency and duration by Type (e.g., emergency, road works) using Closure start time and Closure end time.
• Map incident locations for traffic management by extracting Geometry (X,Y longitude, latitude) coordinates.
• Filter and monitor closures for specific causes like inclement weather or utilities by querying the Reason for road closure field.
• Identify recurring closure patterns on specific Roads closed segments to inform infrastructure planning.

Strengths

• Provides real-time data updates, with a last recorded update in March 2026.
• Includes 12 specific closure Type categories for detailed classification.
• Contains geographic Geometry data for spatial analysis and mapping.

Limitations

• Unknown total record count and dataset size limits analytical planning.
• Data scope is restricted to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), not nationally representative.
• Relies on an API feed (HTML/JSON) which may require specific technical integration.

Provenance

Source

ACT Government Open Data portal (data_gov_au).

Collection Method

Live API feed (JSON) and ArcGIS Online map, maintained by TCCS.

Time Range

Real-time, ongoing.

Freshness

Real-time feed; last metadata update recorded on 2026-03-10.

Geography

Australian Capital Territory (ACT).