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Road Traffic Conditions during Peak Hours

Average Speed During Peak Hours

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Average Speed During Peak Hours

Data from Jan 2004 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 14 Feb 2025, 11:49 SGT

LTA (Land Transport Authority)

Average speed & congestion-free roads are for peak hour periods, i.e. 8 to 9am and 6 to 7pm on weekdays.

Ave speed expressway, Ave speed arterial roads by Year

Data explorer

AverageSpeedDuringPeakHours.csv (20 rows, 346 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Ave Speed Expressway Text	Ave Speed Arterial Roads Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2004	62.7	24.8
2005	63	27.2
2006	61.6	27.1
2007	62.4	26.9
2008	63.3	26.7
2009	62	27.9
2010	62.3	28
2011	62.5	28.5
2012	63.1	28.6
2013	61.4	28.9

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Ave Speed Expressway	ave_speed_expressway	Text	-	-
Ave Speed Arterial Roads	ave_speed_arterial_roads	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_26f6afadf2f86b2004f9a1e28f5564cc"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Land Transport Authority. (2016). Average Speed During Peak Hours (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 2, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_26f6afadf2f86b2004f9a1e28f5564cc/view

About this dataset

Contact

admin@data.gov.sg

Created on

28 Apr 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

LTA (Land Transport Authority)