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Melbourne traffic signals

393 signals with traffic counts in Melbourne, from 2023 to 3 Oct 2026.

Signals
393
in Melbourne
With recent counts
369
counted in the last 12 months
Busiest weekday volume
153,146
vehicles per weekday, Princes nr Canning
Ready for turning counts
1
set up to show turning movements

Busiest signals

Where Melbourne is busiest

The ten signals with the most traffic on an average weekday. A signal where faulty detectors left out most of the traffic is not ranked.

Busiest signals in Melbourne
Signal	Weekday volume	AM peak	PM peak	Open in the map
Princes nr CanningSite 4415	153,146	9,626	9,378	Open
King St / Flinders StSite 2929	104,961	6,990	6,695	Open
Hoddle / VictoriaSite 3385	94,988	6,032	5,668	Open
Swanston / Cemetery East / CollegeSite 4711	91,016	6,091	5,578	Open
Flemington / Racecourse / ElliotSite 4461	89,871	5,722	5,818	Open
Eastern / Nicholson / PrincesSite 2100	89,198	5,716	5,879	Open
Racecourse nr CrownSite 4469	83,037	5,353	5,764	Open
Cemetery / CollegeSite 4382	82,546	4,997	4,580	Open
Rathdowne / PrincesSite 4381	81,164	5,209	5,539	Open
Victoria / Brunswick / GisborneSite 4441	79,842	4,866	5,359	Open

Weekday volume is vehicles per weekday; peaks are vehicles in the busiest hour of the morning and afternoon.

Worth a look

Signals worth a look

Signals with crashes, detector changes, a gap in counts or a large change in volume. A starting point for a closer look, not a verdict.

King / Hawke
Site 4524 · 37,717 vehicles per weekday
- Fatal/serious crashes: 10 (5 yrs)
- High crash rate (0.25 per million)
- Volume -13% year on year
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Flemington / Gatehouse / Harker
Site 4465 · 49,379 vehicles per weekday
- Fatal/serious crashes: 9 (5 yrs)
- High crash rate (0.25 per million)
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Racecourse / Boundary
Site 4475 · 50,897 vehicles per weekday
- Fatal/serious crashes: 6 (5 yrs)
- High crash rate (0.22 per million)
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Royal / Gatehouse / College
Site 4383 · 29,479 vehicles per weekday
- Fatal/serious crashes: 6 (5 yrs)
- High crash rate (0.31 per million)
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Queen / Latrobe
Site 2923 · 21,525 vehicles per weekday
- Fatal/serious crashes: 6 (5 yrs)
- High crash rate (0.31 per million)
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Why these signals?

Fatal/serious crashes: 2 or more fatal or serious injury crashes at the signal, 1 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2025 (the last five full calendar years).
High crash rate: injury crashes per million entering vehicles in the top 10% of the council's 308 rated signals (0.18 or more), counting only signals with 5,000+ weekday vehicles and 3+ crashes. A rate needs a full year of counts (300+ days) behind it.
Detector changes: 2 or more start, stop or shift events in the last 12 months, or any in the last 90 days of the record.
OP sheet older: the date printed on the published sheet is earlier than the last detector change, so its layout may be out of date.
Silent: no counts for more than 60 days before the end of the record.
Mostly faulty detectors: more than 50% of the signal's traffic over its last 12 months was on detectors left out as faulty. Such a signal gets no volume-growth or crash-rate reason, because its volume covers the working lanes only.
Volume: 10% or more up or down year on year. Withheld where detectors changed and too little traffic stayed on the loops counted both years.
Ranked by crash reasons first, then fatal/serious crashes, then the number of other reasons, then weekday volume. Signals with no reason are not listed.

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About this data

What these figures are

Counts come from the vehicle detectors at traffic signals across Victoria. Weekday volume is the average number of vehicles through a signal on a weekday, and the AM and PM peaks are the busiest hour of the morning and afternoon, each over the signal’s most recent 12 months of counts. Detectors that are faulty are left out. Updated regularly.

Source: Department of Transport and Planning, via DataVic (Traffic Signal Volume Data and Victorian Traffic Signals), licensed CC BY 4.0. Independent; not affiliated with any road authority. Indicative analysis; verify against official sources before relying on it. See data coverage for how each figure is worked out.