Melbourne SCATS Topic Pages
Melbourne Traffic Trends
This page focuses on behavioural patterns in the SCATS archive: daily movement totals, rolling averages, busiest days, quietest days, day-of-year seasonality and weekday/weekend rhythm.
Daily records
4,437
Total daily volume
539,020,710,239
Date range
2014-01-01 → 2026-04-07
Top daily pattern
Recent years dominate top days
Public-interest signal
9 of top 10 busiest days are Fridays
Seasonality layer
Day-of-year profile
Trend Interpretation
The daily layer is the easiest way for the general public to understand Melbourne movement behaviour. The highest measured daily SCATS volumes are heavily concentrated in recent years and around the end-of-week traffic cycle.
Traffic Trend Charts
Daily Traffic with 7-Day Rolling Average
Smooths daily noise to reveal weekly-scale movement trends.
Daily Traffic with 30-Day Rolling Average
Shows slower medium-term changes across the archive.
