Frankston North
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: #276
SCATS sites: 4
Postcode(s): 3198, 3200, 3910
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Suburb Map

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Executive Snapshot

Frankston North contains 4 mapped SCATS traffic sites in this suburb-level profile. Across the historical dataset, these sites account for 452,747,908 vehicle movements, or approximately 452.7M.

The busiest mapped SCATS location in Frankston North is Frankston-Dandenong / Seaford / Ballarto, with 174,715,642 recorded movements across the historical period.

452.7MTotal mapped vehicle movements
4Mapped SCATS sites
#276Melbourne suburb movement rank
113,186,977Average 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 Frankston North

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#SCATS IDLocationTotal movementsMillionsRankMap
1 733 Frankston-Dandenong / Seaford / Ballarto
FRANKSTON-DANDENONG/SEAFORD/BALLARTO		 174,715,642 174.7M 967 Map
2 702 Dandenong-Frankston / Excelsior
DANDENONG-FRANKSTON/EXCELSIOR		 122,624,912 122.6M 1742 Map
3 729 Frankston-Dandenong / Klauer
FRANKSTON-DANDENONG/KLAUER		 112,186,051 112.2M 1986 Map
4 1160 Mcclelland Drv / Quarryrd
MCCLELLAND DRV/QUARRYRD		 43,221,303 43.2M 3701 Map
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SCATS Sensor Map

This map shows the location of each mapped SCATS sensor associated with Frankston North. 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

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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.

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Mapped SCATS sensors

  1. 1
    733 — Frankston-Dandenong / Seaford / Ballarto
    FRANKSTON-DANDENONG/SEAFORD/BALLARTO
    Middle-volume Melbourne-wide · Melbourne rank #967
    -38.112736, 145.157428
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  2. 2
    702 — Dandenong-Frankston / Excelsior
    DANDENONG-FRANKSTON/EXCELSIOR
    Middle-volume Melbourne-wide · Melbourne rank #1742
    -38.113946, 145.15563
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  3. 3
    729 — Frankston-Dandenong / Klauer
    FRANKSTON-DANDENONG/KLAUER
    Middle-volume Melbourne-wide · Melbourne rank #1986
    -38.119816, 145.146941
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  4. 4
    1160 — Mcclelland Drv / Quarryrd
    MCCLELLAND DRV/QUARRYRD
    Lower-volume mapped site · Melbourne rank #3701
    -38.12872, 145.180478
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Local Movement Context

Busiest Local Site

Frankston-Dandenong / Seaford / Ballarto
174,715,642 vehicle movements
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Suburb Rank

Frankston North ranks #276 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

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SCATS IDFriendly nameOfficial nameTotal movementsPostcodeMap
733 Frankston-Dandenong / Seaford / Ballarto FRANKSTON-DANDENONG/SEAFORD/BALLARTO 174,715,642 3200 Open
702 Dandenong-Frankston / Excelsior DANDENONG-FRANKSTON/EXCELSIOR 122,624,912 3198 Open
729 Frankston-Dandenong / Klauer FRANKSTON-DANDENONG/KLAUER 112,186,051 3200 Open
1160 Mcclelland Drv / Quarryrd MCCLELLAND DRV/QUARRYRD 43,221,303 3910 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