One traffic count site, direction of travel and hour of the day, with the average number of vehicles in that hour on each day of the week across 2025, the weekday and weekend averages, the site's road and location, and its TMR district and region.

Why is this table for 2025 only?

The publisher adds one workbook for each year, and each workbook names its sheet after its year. This entry reads the 2025 workbook. Earlier years are on the portal as separate files.

Why are some day columns blank?

The publisher leaves a day blank where a site has no average for that hour and day. The blank is kept as a null.

Datasets / Queensland / Transport and Main Roads / Traffic volumes on Queensland state-controlled roads

Traffic by hour of day and day of week, Queensland, 2025

Name: Traffic by hour of day and day of week, Queensland, 2025
Creator: Department of Transport and Main Roads
Published: 2026-06-03
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Publisher Department of Transport and Main RoadsUpdated annuallyLicence CC BY 4.0Latest 2026-06-03Rows 84,032Fields 24

One row per count site, direction of travel and hour of the day on the Queensland state-declared road network for 2025, from the Department of Transport and Main Roads. Each row has the average volume in that hour on each day from Monday to Sunday, the weekday and weekend averages, the site's description, road section, through distance, segment, coordinates and TMR district and region.

Also called: Queensland traffic data averaged by hour of day and day of week, TMR hourly traffic counts, Queensland peak hour traffic by road.

Part of Traffic volumes on Queensland state-controlled roads, 2 tables the publisher releases together: Traffic census of state-controlled roads, Queensland.

Before you use it

What is in each row?: One traffic count site, direction of travel and hour of the day, with the average number of vehicles in that hour on each day of the week across 2025, the weekday and weekend averages, the site's road and location, and its TMR district and region.
Why is this table for 2025 only?: The publisher adds one workbook for each year, and each workbook names its sheet after its year. This entry reads the 2025 workbook. Earlier years are on the portal as separate files.
Why are some day columns blank?: The publisher leaves a day blank where a site has no average for that hour and day. The blank is kept as a null.

83,731 site hours drawn in 930 cells of 0.05 degrees, the fullest with 1,056. — Site hours counted in cells of 0.05 degrees. State outlines from the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2021, CC BY 4.0.

84,032site hours

24fields

12formats

1version

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Any agent that connects to publicdata.au/mcp can find this dataset, read its 24 fields, count and filter across all 84,032 rows and diff its versions. Every answer names the version and carries Transport and Main Roads's attribution. No key.

Then ask it: What does Traffic by hour of day and day of week, Queensland, 2025 hold, and what changed in the newest version?

claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp

One command. No key, no account, no sign-up.

https://publicdata.au/mcp

Streamable HTTP. Cursor, VS Code or any client that connects to a remote MCP server.

Using https://publicdata.au/llms.txt, how many people died on Queensland roads in 2025, by month?

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Query APIFilter and count from a URL

aggregate?group=hour&metric=avg.weekday_average

Average weekday vehicles per site and direction: 621.8 15 to 16, 610.6 16 to 17, 587.5 14 to 15, 579.3 8 to 9.

Download it as Excel, CSV, JSON and 9 more formats

Pick a format and a version. Excel is picked first because it opens in the tools most offices have. The URL is yours to keep. A dated version never changes.

Format

Version "Latest" redirects to the newest version and will change when the publisher releases again. A dated version never changes.

https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day/latest/data.xlsx

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Use it in Excel, R, Python and more

Excel and Power BI read the CSV from its address and refresh from it. The R and Python packages take any dataset on this site by its slug, so a new dataset needs no new release. The DuckDB file attaches read-only over HTTPS, and a query reads only the blocks it touches.

The dated URL in the code never changes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day/latest/ redirects to the newest version.

https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day/latest/data.csv

In Excel choose Data, then From Web, and paste this address. Excel keeps it, so Refresh All reads the newest version. A sheet holds about a million rows; past that, load the query to the Data Model.

https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day/latest/data.csv

In Power BI Desktop choose Get data, then Web, paste this address and choose Anonymous when asked how to sign in. A scheduled refresh reads the same address, so the report follows each new version.

library(publicdataau)
df <- pd_read("qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day")
pd_attribution(df)

install.packages("publicdataau"). pd_read() fetches the version's Parquet file; pd_rows() and pd_aggregate() ask the query API instead, and pd_connect() attaches the DuckDB file.

import publicdata_au as pd_au
df = pd_au.read("qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day")
df.attrs["publicdata"]["attribution"]

pip install "publicdata-au[pandas]". read() fetches the version's Parquet file; rows() and aggregate() ask the query API, and connect() attaches the DuckDB file.

INSTALL httpfs; LOAD httpfs;
ATTACH 'https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day/v/2026-06-03/data.duckdb' AS qld_traffic_by_hour_and_day (READ_ONLY);
SELECT region_name, count(*) FROM qld_traffic_by_hour_and_day.records GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 2 DESC;

The DuckDB file attaches read-only over HTTPS and only the blocks a query touches are read. Parquet works the same way: FROM read_parquet(url).

const res = await fetch("https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day/aggregate?group=hour&metric=avg.weekday_average");
const { rows, publicdata } = await res.json();
console.log(rows, publicdata.attribution);

The query API answers a page on any site as well as Node, with no key. It returns the rows and the attribution the licence asks for.

What is in it

Column names are made snake_case and the publisher's original header is kept beside each one. Blank cells are null. Nothing is added, removed, ranked or summarised.

Field	Type	Publisher's header	Note
site_id	integer	SITE_ID
description	string	DESCRIPTION
site_distance	number	SITE_DISTANCE	Through distance of the site from the start of the road section.
longitude	number	LONGITUDE
latitude	number	LATITUDE
road_section_id	string	ROAD_SECTION_ID
road_name	string	ROAD_NAME
tdist_start	number	TDIST_START
tdist_end	number	TDIST_END
gazettal_direction	string	GAZETTAL_DIRECTION	GAZETTAL for traffic in the gazetted direction of the road, AGAINST GAZETTAL for the other way.
hour	string	HOUR	The hour of the day, such as 7 to 8.
mon	integer	MON
tue	integer	TUE
wed	integer	WED
thu	integer	THU
fri	integer	FRI
sat	integer	SAT
sun	integer	SUN
weekday_average	integer	WEEKDAY_AVERAGE
weekend_average	integer	WEEKEND_AVERAGE
district	integer	DISTRICT
district_name	string	DISTRICT_NAME
region	integer	REGION
region_name	string	REGION_NAME

Download this table as a data dictionary (Excel), or read it as a Frictionless Table Schema at schema.json. The key is site_id, gazettal_direction, hour, road_section_id, tdist_start.

A sample of 10 rows

The busiest count sites in each TMR region between 4 pm and 5 pm on an average weekday, each region in turn, busiest first. A blank cell is shown as null.

site_id	description	site_distance	longitude	latitude	road_section_id	road_name	tdist_start	tdist_end	gazettal_direction	hour	mon	tue	wed	thu	fri	sat	sun	weekday_average	weekend_average	district	district_name	region	region_name
13007	380m Nrth of Helensvale Rd Exit60 PM5799	41.063	153.315294056	-27.9001582232	12A	PACIFIC HIGHWAY (PACIFIC MOTORWAY)	39.42	44.05	AGAINST GAZETTAL	16 to 17	7166	7143	6916	7043	6924	6136	6166	7041	6151	410	South Coast	310	South Coast
135799	U12A-At Underwood Rd Bridge	17.3	153.111209618	-27.5936857439	U12A	SOUTH-EAST ARTERIAL ROAD (PACIFIC MOTORWAY)	16.3	17.33	GAZETTAL	16 to 17	6229	6402	6437	6395	5936	5240	4692	6273	4974	406	Metropolitan	306	Metropolitan
135995	10A - 500m South of Dohles Rocks Road	0.3	153.019178935	-27.290864041	10A	BRUCE HIGHWAY (BRISBANE - GYMPIE)	0	1.9	GAZETTAL	16 to 17	6397	6314	5833	6018	5636	4537	4371	6066	4454	407	North Coast	307	North Coast
110013	Southern Abutment of Saltwater Ck Bridge	3.5	145.753417362	-16.8940774226	20A	CAPTAIN COOK HIGHWAY (CAIRNS - MOSSMAN)	2.43	3.7	GAZETTAL	16 to 17	2436	2593	2567	2538	2349	1165	1068	2496	1116	403	Far North	315	North Queensland
80023	Ron Camm Bridge Permanent Counter	1.055	149.167416	-21.137942	10H	BRUCE HIGHWAY (MACKAY - PROSERPINE)	0	2.145	GAZETTAL	16 to 17	2160	2259	2231	2101	1851	931	785	2110	862	405	Mackay/Whitsunday	314	Central Queensland
30003	22A-Southern End Overpass (CPLPS)	112.15	151.956837039	-27.5223966208	22A	NEW ENGLAND HIGHWAY (YARRAMAN - TOOWOOMBA)	110.42	113.48	AGAINST GAZETTAL	16 to 17	1367	1438	1449	1416	1265	679	639	1388	660	402	Darling Downs	316	Southern Queensland
13008	580m south of Coombabah Crk PM5822	46.846	153.339972145	-27.9458599044	12A	PACIFIC HIGHWAY (PACIFIC MOTORWAY)	44.05	47.83	GAZETTAL	16 to 17	6982	7181	6958	6976	6557	5799	5914	6932	5857	410	South Coast	310	South Coast
161931	U12A-South of Underwood Rd Overpass GAZ	17.283	153.111238129	-27.5935354345	U12A	SOUTH-EAST ARTERIAL ROAD (PACIFIC MOTORWAY)	null	null	GAZETTAL	16 to 17	5977	6040	6032	6014	5742	4972	4488	5963	4737	406	Metropolitan	306	Metropolitan
135995	10A - 500m South of Dohles Rocks Road	0.3	153.019178935	-27.290864041	10A	BRUCE HIGHWAY (BRISBANE - GYMPIE)	0	1.9	AGAINST GAZETTAL	16 to 17	5255	5341	5327	5412	5848	5425	5450	5423	5438	407	North Coast	307	North Coast
111577	Sawpit Gully - Bruce Highway	78.94	145.743840008	-16.9763000418	10P	BRUCE HIGHWAY (INNISFAIL - CAIRNS)	null	null	AGAINST GAZETTAL	16 to 17	2272	2507	2437	2413	2188	1144	1030	2363	1087	403	Far North	315	North Queensland

The first row as JSON

As it appears in data.json.

GET https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day/latest/data.json
{
  "site_id": 10007,
  "description": "900m west of Marble Arch Pl",
  "site_distance": 2.13,
  "longitude": 153.345772088796,
  "latitude": -27.9201083012759,
  "road_section_id": "11A",
  "road_name": "GOLD COAST HIGHWAY (HELENSVALE - SOUTHPORT)",
  "tdist_start": 0.0,
  "tdist_end": 3.93,
  "gazettal_direction": "AGAINST GAZETTAL",
  "hour": "0 to 1",
  "mon": 74,
  "tue": 78,
  "wed": 79,
  "thu": 100,
  "fri": 100,
  "sat": 133,
  "sun": 156,
  "weekday_average": 85,
  "weekend_average": 145,
  "district": 410,
  "district_name": "South Coast",
  "region": 310,
  "region_name": "South Coast"
}

Query it without downloading

The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Build a query here and run it, then copy the URL or the code into your own work.

Try rows or aggregate for this dataset. The query builder needs JavaScript.

How filters work

Each filter is field=operator.value in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with ilike. Prefix not. to negate a filter, as not.eq.value.

Operator	What it matches
eq.value	Equal to the value.
neq.value	Not equal to the value. A blank cell does not match.
gt.value	Greater than the value.
gte.value	Greater than or equal to the value.
lt.value	Less than the value.
lte.value	Less than or equal to the value.
like.text	Matches a pattern where * stands for any run of characters. Case-sensitive.
ilike.text	The same as like, ignoring case.
in.(a,b,c)	Equal to any value in the list. A value cannot contain a comma.
is.null	Blank in the source, or suppressed by the publisher.

Parameter	What it does
select	Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent.
order	field.asc or field.desc, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent.
limit	Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent.
offset	Rows to skip. The next URL in each answer sets it for you.
group	On aggregate, fields to group by, comma-separated.
metric	On aggregate, count, sum.field, avg.field, min.field or max.field, comma-separated. count when absent.
format	json, ndjson or csv. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers.

Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put versions/<date>/ before rows or aggregate for an answer that never changes. /api/v1/datasets/<slug>/versions lists the loaded versions. The 1 newest version is loaded; versions lists them.

The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a Retry-After header, a RateLimit-Policy header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same RateLimit-Policy. A client should wait the Retry-After seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. openapi.json describes this dataset's query paths for client generators and agents.

https://publicdata.au/mcp is a remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP with the same tools, defined in the same place, so a tool added to the pages is added here too. It needs no key and no account. The row tools are held to the query API's limit of 60 queries in 10 seconds from one address, and each call is two queries because it also counts the matching rows. Add it to Claude Code with claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp, add the URL in Claude as a custom connector, or give it to any client that connects to remote MCP servers. Each queryable dataset is also a resource at https://publicdata.au/d/<slug>/fields.json, which lists its fields with their types, the publisher's descriptions, their ranges and the values they hold, so an agent can read a dataset's shape before it writes a query.

Smaller files

The same rows split by a field, one JSON file each with a GeoJSON beside it. Each file carries the same provenance header.

By region_name (6 files)

Central Queensland Metropolitan North Coast North Queensland South Coast Southern Queensland

by/region_name/index.json lists every file with its row count.

What changed

One version for every release the publisher has made since this site started following the dataset. The date is the day the file changed on the portal.

2026-06-03
84,032 rows24 fieldsxlsx5ebe8cbcfff8

versions.json · changes.json · history.tar.zst (1.2 MB, every version's Parquet and manifest)

Questions

How do I download Traffic by hour of day and day of week, Queensland as a CSV file?

Open https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day/v/2026-06-03/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, GeoJSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, GeoPackage, GeoParquet, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same.

Can I open Traffic by hour of day and day of week, Queensland in Excel?

Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day/v/2026-06-03/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 84,032 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day/v/2026-06-03/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size.

What years does Traffic by hour of day and day of week, Queensland cover?

The current version covers the years since 2025. Each release from Transport and Main Roads becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online.

How often is Traffic by hour of day and day of week, Queensland updated?

Transport and Main Roads releases it annually. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes.

Can I use Traffic by hour of day and day of week, Queensland commercially?

Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file.

Is this the official source for Traffic by hour of day and day of week, Queensland?

No. The publisher is Department of Transport and Main Roads, and its page is https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/queensland-traffic-data-averaged-by-hour-of-day-and-day-of-week. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.xlsx with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared.

How do I get only the rows for one region name?

Every version has one JSON file per value of region_name, 6 files in the current version, listed with row counts at https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day/v/2026-06-03/by/region_name/index.json. For example https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day/v/2026-06-03/by/region_name/southern-queensland.json holds the 26,112 rows where region_name is Southern Queensland. A GeoJSON file sits beside each one.

What coordinate system does Traffic by hour of day and day of week, Queensland use?

The publisher gives longitude and latitude in decimal degrees on the WGS datum (EPSG:4326). They are published as given. The GeoJSON file uses the same coordinates, which is what GeoJSON expects.

What this site did to the data. Cells were typed, headers were renamed and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. The publisher's file sits beside every version as source.xlsx so the change can be checked.

Traffic volumes on Queensland state-controlled roads is 2 tables here, and each takes its version date from its own file.

Attribution and citation

The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used.

Department of Transport and Main Roads, Queensland Government, Queensland traffic data averaged by hour of day and day of week, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/queensland-traffic-data-averaged-by-hour-of-day-and-day-of-week, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day/v/2026-06-03/

The attribution alone is inside every file. Harvard is the author-date form a report or a brief asks for. Paste the HTML on a web page so the links carry.

Licence record

Department of Transport and Main Roads states the licence, CC BY 4.0, on its own page, which was read and recorded here on 1 October 2026.

Every fetch reads the licence again and stops when it has changed. The fetch that made version 2026-06-03 read it from www.data.qld.gov.au on 3 October 2026.

Also published on

Hugging Faceload_dataset("National-Digital/qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day")
Kagglewith a starter notebook
ZenodoDOI 10.5281/zenodo.23122779

Each copy carries the same attribution and links back to this page.

For agents and tools

datapackage.jsonFrictionless data package pointing at the latest version
schema.jsonTable Schema for every field
schema.xlsxthe same field list as an Excel data dictionary
versions.jsonevery version with date, rows, fields and hash
changes.jsondiff for every consecutive pair
manifest.jsonwhere the bytes came from and when
Query APIfiltered rows and counts without a download
openapi.jsonOpenAPI 3.1 for this dataset's query paths
explore/charts and dashboards in the browser, shareable and embeddable
index.mdthis page as Markdown

This page carries a schema.org Dataset record and is listed in /.well-known/ard.json and /catalog.json.

Source

Department of Transport and Main Roads publishes this table on www.data.qld.gov.au. Questions about the content go to the publisher. Questions about the files here go to corrections.

Fetched 3 October 2026. Source SHA-256 5ebe8cbcfff89dd3…

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This page is built from register/qld-traffic-by-hour-and-day.yaml on GitHub. Anyone can propose a fix to it, such as a clearer description or a field the publisher renamed, as a pull request.

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