Datasets / Traffic and camera offences and fines, ACT / 2026-10-06

Traffic and camera offences and fines, ACT, version 2026-10-06

Rows 199,446Fields 8Fetched 5 October 2026Source SHA-256 729fbf9b0da149d8…

This version is kept for as long as this site exists, and its URL can be cited. Its files change only for the reasons the terms give, and each change is recorded in its notes. The publisher's file is here as source.csv, byte for byte.

Files

data.arrow3.4 MB Arrow: Arrow IPC file (Feather v2), zstd compressed, with the provenance in the schema metadata. Memory-maps in pyarrow, Polars, Arrow JS and R without parsing.
data.csv20 MB CSV: UTF-8 without a byte-order mark, RFC 4180 quoting, one header row using the normalised field names. Opens in Excel, Numbers and Sheets.
data.csv-metadata.json2.5 KB
data.csv.gz1.1 MB CSV (gzip): The same CSV, gzipped, at about a tenth of the size. curl, pandas, DuckDB and R read it directly.
data.duckdb DuckDB: One DuckDB database with a records table of typed columns, a fields table and a publicdata metadata table. It attaches read-only over HTTPS, so DuckDB, Python and R can query it without downloading it.
data.json50 MB JSON: One object with a publicdata header (publisher, licence, attribution, version, source hash), a fields list and a records array of 199,446 objects with typed values. Blank cells are null.
data.ndjson50 MB NDJSON: The first line is the provenance header, then one JSON object per line. For streaming and for tools that read line by line.
data.parquet521 KB Parquet: Columnar and typed. The smallest download and the fastest to query. Reads directly in DuckDB, pandas, Polars, Arrow and Spark. The provenance header is in the file metadata.
data.sqlite20 MB SQLite: One database with a records table, a fields table and a publicdata metadata table. Open it with any SQLite client.
data.xlsx6.3 MB Excel: One workbook with a records sheet of 199,446 typed rows, a fields sheet and a publicdata sheet with the provenance. Dates are real Excel dates. Opens in Excel, Numbers, LibreOffice and Sheets.
manifest.json1.4 KB
schema.json1.0 KB
schema.sql815 B
source.csv19 MB

SHA256SUMS holds the SHA-256 of every file in this version under the name it downloads as. Check what you downloaded with sha256sum -c --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS in the same folder. On a Mac, use shasum -a 256 -c --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS. Each list is signed by the deploy that wrote it: gh attestation verify SHA256SUMS --repo National-Digital/publicdata.au --source-ref refs/heads/main shows it came from this project's main branch.

Smaller files by field: by/infringement_type/.

Change from 2026-09-28

198,579 rows in 2026-09-28 and 199,446 in this version. No key is declared, so rows are compared by count only. The comparison is in diff/2026-09-28..2026-10-06.json.

Attribution the licence asks for

Access Canberra, ACT Government, Traffic and Camera Offences and Fines, https://www.data.act.gov.au/d/vr9h-djj8, accessed 5 October 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Provenance

Fetched from www.data.act.gov.au on 5 October 2026. The portal listed the licence as Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International at that moment. manifest.json has every detail.

Infringements per year, 2022 to 2025. Rows where date is at least 2022-01-01 are drawn. 2026 is not drawn because the rows run to 3 October 2026. A sum of the infringements column in this version, worked out in the build.

Change from the version before

198,579 rows before, 199,446 now

Against 2026-09-28. No key is declared, so rows are compared by count only. The comparison is in diff/2026-09-28..2026-10-06.json.

Other versions: 2026-09-28, 2026-10-12.