Roadworks and road closures

Explore up-to-date mapping of hazards, events, and road conditions, updated from state and territory open data feeds every day. 

Trusted, historical data on roadworks and road closures is useful in identifying areas of the road network which may be more prone to crashes or natural disasters.

Nationally consistent, accurate, up-to-date road closure and conditions data is also important for navigation, for resilience planning, and can help us understand where investment is happening across the network.  

Updated daily, this interactive map developed by the National Freight Data Hub(Opens in a new tab/window) (NFDH) shows where roadworks or road closures are in place, or have occurred in the past, and provides additional information about incidents as reported by state/territory authorities. Historical information can be viewed using the time slider.  

The map below is a preview of roadworks and road closures, showing only current events. Explore other date ranges, historical data and more detail using the full visualisation.(Opens in a new tab/window) 

About the data  

The roadworks and road closures data has been sourced from state and territory governments’ open data feeds, which the NFDH has combined and harmonised into a national dataset. Every day the state and territory data are automatically collected and standardised into a nationally consistent format and combined to build the national database of historical roadworks and road closures. For more information on the Harmonised National Roadworks and Road Closures dataset please refer to the download data section of this page.

Download data 

Harmonised National Roadworks and Road Closures(Opens in a new tab/window)

Limitations  

The data often does not include end dates for roadwork nor road closure incidents. Where this is the case it is assumed that if a roadwork begins in a particular month, then it will also end in that month. 

The type of events reported is inconsistent across the states and territories, for example some states report flooding events, and others do not.  

The NFDH does not have clear data indicating allowable access level on a road. As a result, some logic is implemented in the data ingest process to categorise road closures. This is an example of a data quality issue which NFDH plan to address with the help of states and territories.