This API contains details of unplanned disruptions in near real-time on roads managed by the Victorian Department of Transport and Planning as well as roads managed by local councils. The data includes the location and reason for the disruption along the road it has occurred on, number of lanes closed, enhanced public advice for consumers, and improved accuracy for an incident’s location.
Also included are Tow Truck allocations within the Melbourne Controlled Area (including Mornington Peninsula) which is done by the Accident Allocation Centre, managed under contract to the DTP. The records either represent a road disruption affecting either a point on a road or a length of road or tow trucks in the Melbourne Controlled Area attending an accident scene for vehicles with a gross vehicle mass less than 4 tonnes only after receiving an allocation number.
Data is collected from the Road Incident Database (RID) system managed by the Victorian Transport Operations Centre (TOC) as well as Probe, a 3rd party organisation that helps to manage tow allocations data for the Department.
This API uses a Parent-Child relationship within its records. See example below.
Concept, Legacy, Unplanned Disruptions, Open Data API
- Parent, N/A, Incident, Event
- Child, Location, Impact, Event Location
NOTE: This API endpoint has a rate limit of 10 calls per minute. Pagination has been implemented with the query parameters “page” and “limit” with default value set to '1' and '0' respectively. The information in this feed is near real time.
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