Curlewis
Traffic Intelligence Profile

SCATS-based vehicle movement profile generated from the Melbourne SCATS Intelligence Platform. Historical signalised-intersection movement analysis covering 2014–2026.
Generated: 20 May 2026
Suburb rank: #390
SCATS sites: 3
Postcode(s): 3222
I’m your local mate with a few trailers right next to The West Gate Freeway!

Suburb Map

This map provides geographic context for the suburb profile and the surrounding road network. For individual SCATS sensor locations, use the map links in the Top SCATS Sites and Sensor Inventory tables.

Curlewis suburb map
The embedded Google suburb map is not loaded automatically, to keep this public traffic intelligence archive fast and lightweight.
Open Curlewis in Google Maps

Google Maps suburb link. Open full map in Google Maps. This page avoids loading embedded Google maps until a visitor explicitly opens or loads one.

Executive Snapshot

Curlewis contains 3 mapped SCATS traffic sites in this suburb-level profile. Across the historical dataset, these sites account for 124,785,837 vehicle movements, or approximately 124.8M.

The busiest mapped SCATS location in Curlewis is Portarlington Road / Tivoli Drive, with 48,921,136 recorded movements across the historical period.

124.8MTotal mapped vehicle movements
3Mapped SCATS sites
#390Melbourne suburb movement rank
41,595,279Average movements per site
Interpretation: This profile should be read as a suburb-level movement exposure report based on mapped SCATS sensor locations. It is useful for local traffic reporting, OOH exposure review, planning discussion, business-location context and public-interest transport analysis.

Top SCATS Sites in Curlewis

On mobile, swipe the table sideways to view all columns.

#SCATS IDLocationTotal movementsMillionsRankMap
1 5372 Portarlington Road / Tivoli Drive
PORTARLINGTON ROAD/TIVOLI DRIVE		 48,921,136 48.9M 3572 Map
2 5423 Portarlington Road / Hermsley Road / Curlewis Road
Portarlington Road / Hermsley Road / Curlewis Road		 43,624,624 43.6M 3694 Map
3 5175 Jetty / Wyndham / Centennial
JETTY/WYNDHAM / CENTENNIAL		 32,240,077 32.2M 3948 Map
Note: SCATS locations are assigned to suburbs using the latitude/longitude of each site. Boundary roads may influence nearby suburbs even when assigned to one suburb for repeatable reporting.

SCATS Sensor Map

This map shows the location of each mapped SCATS sensor associated with Curlewis. Circle colours match the main full-network SCATS map. Click any circle to view the site name, movement total and a direct Google Maps link.

Interactive SCATS Sensor Map

To protect the public platform from unnecessary Google Maps API usage, this interactive map loads only when requested. The report tables and direct Google Maps links work without loading the embedded map.

Interactive SCATS sensor map is ready to load.
Click the button above to load Google Maps and display the mapped SCATS sites for Curlewis.
Traffic intensity circles
Red — Top 5% busiest Melbourne-wide
Orange — Top 20% busiest Melbourne-wide
Yellow — Middle-volume Melbourne-wide
Green — Lower-volume mapped site
Circle colours are based on each SCATS site's Melbourne-wide rank across the cleaned archive, not just its rank within this suburb. Circle size is scaled lightly by traffic intensity.

Provider: Google Maps circle overlays · Sensors plotted: 3. For PDF export, you will usually get a better result by replacing this live map with a static PNG screenshot.

Mapped SCATS sensors

  1. 1
    5372 — Portarlington Road / Tivoli Drive
    PORTARLINGTON ROAD/TIVOLI DRIVE
    Lower-volume mapped site · Melbourne rank #3572
    -38.184587, 144.542987
    Open in Google Maps
  2. 2
    5423 — Portarlington Road / Hermsley Road / Curlewis Road
    Portarlington Road / Hermsley Road / Curlewis Road
    Lower-volume mapped site · Melbourne rank #3694
    -38.180822, 144.512609
    Open in Google Maps
  3. 3
    5175 — Jetty / Wyndham / Centennial
    JETTY/WYNDHAM / CENTENNIAL
    Lower-volume mapped site · Melbourne rank #3948
    -38.171855, 144.552588
    Open in Google Maps

Local Movement Context

Busiest Local Site

Portarlington Road / Tivoli Drive
48,921,136 vehicle movements
Open busiest site in Google Maps

Suburb Rank

Curlewis ranks #390 among mapped Melbourne suburbs/localities by total SCATS movement volume in this generated suburb summary.

Likely Dominant Corridors

OOH and media relevance: Suburbs with concentrated SCATS movement corridors can be useful for billboard exposure review, local traffic journalism, corridor analysis and business-location intelligence.

SCATS Sensor Inventory

On mobile, swipe the table sideways to view all columns.

SCATS IDFriendly nameOfficial nameTotal movementsPostcodeMap
5372 Portarlington Road / Tivoli Drive PORTARLINGTON ROAD/TIVOLI DRIVE 48,921,136 3222 Open
5423 Portarlington Road / Hermsley Road / Curlewis Road Portarlington Road / Hermsley Road / Curlewis Road 43,624,624 3222 Open
5175 Jetty / Wyndham / Centennial JETTY/WYNDHAM / CENTENNIAL 32,240,077 3222 Open

Methodology and Platform Context

This suburb profile is one local report generated from the wider Melbourne SCATS Intelligence platform. The platform converts more than 12 years of Melbourne traffic signal data into a public-facing transport intelligence layer covering historical movement totals, site rankings, corridor behaviour, suburb profiles, OOH exposure review, and reproducible data-quality evidence.

37,877,000,000Cleaned 15-minute SCATS observations
539,021,000,000Total cleaned vehicle movements analysed platform-wide
148/148Expected months processed in the reporting window
2014–2026Historical coverage window
How to read this suburb report: the suburb total shown earlier in this profile is this suburb’s portion of the mapped SCATS movement layer. The Melbourne-wide figures above describe the scale of the full platform, not this suburb alone. The suburb profile layer turns the city-wide dataset into 517 suburb/locality reports using 4,427 mapped SCATS sites.
Boundary caution: Some SCATS sensors sit on arterial roads, freeway interfaces or suburb boundaries. For repeatable reporting, each sensor is assigned to one suburb based on its coordinate. This makes the profiles reproducible, but nearby suburbs may still be affected by the same corridor.

Open-source project: https://github.com/clarketowson/melbourne-scats-intelligence

Generated by Melbourne SCATS Intelligence Platform · Clarke Towson, BCMS · Spotswood Trailers