Transport for NSW (TfNSW) is celebrating 12 years of helping drivers get from A to B with the help of its Live Traffic NSW website and app services.
Congratulating the Department on reaching the 12-year achievement, Minister for Metropolitan Roads, Natalie Ward said the milestone was a significant reminder of the work undertaken to establish a network that provided real-time traffic data so motorists could plan their daily commutes.
“Live Traffic NSW has played a critical role over the past 12 years in providing real time information to help people move safely around state roads,” Ms Ward said.
“We update Live Traffic NSW 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as we monitor and manage the 18,000-kilometre NSW state road network,” she said.
“This includes publishing live shots from 155 cameras every minute, and details of 500 incidents per day on average.”
Ms Ward said TfNSW was now planning to gather incident data on every road in the State by 2024.
“This update will mean Live Traffic NSW will be able to inform drivers across the State of the best route to take anywhere, any time,” she said.
Minister for Regional Transport and Roads, Sam Farraway said one of the most important things people needed to be able to rely on was accurate and timely road information.
“With a record of up to 660,000 visits a day on the Live Traffic NSW website and apps during the natural disaster events of 2021, a spike in traffic 33 times higher than usual, demand has never been higher for timely and accurate information, and we expect this demand to increase as more councils come on board,” Mr Farraway said.
He said that with the rollout of the update, Live Traffic would become a one stop shop for all the State’s traffic information.
“Providing a better service for users will be valuable during emergencies like floods or fires, with more detailed information available to help protect communities and save lives,” the Minister said.
“All councils in NSW will be given free access to OneRoad, the new backend platform that powers Live Traffic NSW,” he said.
“Data input through OneRoad will also be available on the Transport for NSW Open Data Hub for third-party apps like Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze and TomTom,” he said.
