!!Only one days download of traffic volume is currently permitted within a year of the current month, for example June 2023 - June 2024. If more data is required please contact us at the email in the details section below!!
This dataset contains 2 web services which can be used to download the locations of City of Surrey traffic loops and the traffic loop counts.
Traffic Loops web service accepts a single optional parameter proj_epsg which is the EPSG code for the required projection. The default is 4326 which is WGS84. Simply accessing the URL will download the GeoJSON with the locations of traffic loops currently in use. If you would prefer the data in NAD83 UTM Zone 10 instead you could make the request like this:
https://gisprod.surrey.ca/fmedatastreaming/TrafficLoopCount/TrafficLoops.fmw?proj_epsg=4326
LANE_DIRECTION indicates the heading of the traffic (NB, SB, EB, WB).
INTERSECTION_ID corresponds to the INTID field in the intersections dataset which can be found on the Surrey Open Data site.
ROAD_FACILITYID indicates which road segment the loop is located on. This corresponds to the FACILITYID in the Road Centrelines dataset on the City of Surrey Open Data site.
Traffic Loop Counts web service provides the counts for each traffic loop in 15 minute intervals. While the data is broken down by 15 minute intervals it is currently only updated once per day. We are currently working on increasing the frequency of updates in order to allow for real time traffic applications. The LOOP_ID and DATETIME combinations are unique in the output.
The service accepts 2 optional parameters startdatetime and enddatetime which are used to specify the time and date range of interest. These follow the ISO 8601 standard. For example May 22 2024 at 1:00 PM Pacific Standard Time would be 2024-05-22T13:00:00-08. The output timestamp will contain the time zone offset, either -08 (PST) or -07 (PDT) depending on whether daylight savings time was observed at the output datetime. In order to work with local time you may omit the time zone offset from the input and truncate it from the output.
To request 24 hours worth of data for May 22,2024 you would send the following request:
https://gisprod.surrey.ca/fmedatastreaming/TrafficLoopCount/TrafficLoopCounts.fmw?startdatetime=2024-05-22T00:00:00&enddatetime=2024-05-22T23:59:59
If these 2 parameters are not passed in the data from the last 24 hours is returned.
Additional Notes
The LOOP_ID field is common to both datasets and can be used to cross-reference them.
Archived daily loop counts can be found here: https://data.surrey.ca/dataset/daily-traffic-loop-counts
