Malaysia’s travel data

Roads and traffic

Measured on the road by notuju, anonymously.

• Live traffic

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  How long each road is taking right now, against the same road when it is quiet.

  – km now

• Usual traffic

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  Each road’s usual time for every quarter hour of the week, and how much time to allow.

  – km measured

• Toll queues

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  How long the wait is at each toll plaza, by direction and time of day. A plaza shows once 3 crossings agree at the same time of day.

  – crossings

• Toll lanes

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  Which lanes Touch ’n Go, SmartTAG and RFID drivers use at each plaza. Counted now; published once enough passes are in.

  – passes

• Toll fares

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  The fare at each toll plaza by vehicle class, and entry to exit fares for SKVE with WCE, and SDE. PLUS highways are not included. Each fare names its source, mostly the operator’s own page. None has been checked by a person yet, so check before you rely on one.

  – plazas priced

• Where drivers fill up

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  Which fuel stations are busy when, and which brands drivers choose. A station shows once 3 fill-ups agree at the same time of day.

  – fill-ups

• Road reports

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  Police, accidents, floods, hazards and closures, fading when no one confirms them.

  – reports

• Where trips end

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  Which kinds of place drives end at, like healthcare or shopping malls, by state, city and week. Never the place itself. A city’s kinds show once it has 50 in a week.

  – trips counted

• What people search for

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  Which kinds of place people pick from a search, like food or healthcare, by state, city and week. Never the words typed. A city’s kinds show once it has 50 in a week.

  – picks counted

• R&R stop times

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  How long drivers stop at each R&R, and when it is busiest, by kind of day and hour. An R&R shows once 10 stops are counted there.

  – stops counted

• Confusing junctions

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  Where drivers miss their exit or turn most often, and at what time of day. A junction shows once 10 misses are counted there.

  – misses counted

• Hard braking spots

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  Where drivers brake suddenly: dangerous bends, hidden junctions and bad merges, and at what time of day. A hard brake is slowing by about 0.3 g or more from 30 km/h. A spot shows once 10 hard brakes are counted there.

  – hard brakes counted

• Turn-back spots

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  Where drivers turn round on the road when their route did not tell them to: closures, floods and blocked roads. A spot shows once 10 turn backs are counted there. A spot where 3 different trips turned back in the last hour shows at once as probably closed now.

  – turn backs counted

• No-signal stretches

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  Where mobile data drops on the road, on a grid of 500 m squares, by time of day. notuju finds this from requests it makes anyway, never extra ones. A square shows once 5 drives without data are counted through it.

  – stretches counted

City figures

Worked out by notuju from the roads above.

• City traffic

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  Each city’s traffic now and usually, its rush hours, and the time to allow at the rush.

  – cities

• Jams now

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  Roads taking twice as long as when they are quiet, per city and per road.

  – km jammed now

• Busiest and slowest

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  The busiest roads, toll plazas and fuel stations, and the slowest roads and toll queues.

  – km of road

Public transport

Every operator in one place, kept fresh every day.

• Timetables

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  Every rail and bus timetable published in Malaysia, as GTFS, kept fresh every day.

  – timetables

• Stops and stations

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  Every rail station and bus stop in one list, names tidied.

  – stops and stations

• Lines and routes

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  Every rail line and bus route, with its colour.

  – lines and routes

• Ridership

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  Trips a day on each rail line and bus network.

  – lines and networks

• Bus waits

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  How far apart each route’s buses come, and the usual wait at a stop, by day and hour, against the gap the timetable promises. Measured by notuju from live bus positions in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Johor Bahru.

  – routes measured

• Trains live

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  Where KTM trains are now, and how late they run against the timetable, for every train in KTMB’s live feed. Updated every minute, in alternate half hours for now.

  – trains now

Visitors, vehicles and holidays

Who comes to Malaysia, what Malaysians drive, and the days off that move everyone.

• Visitors to Malaysia

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  Foreign visitors arriving each month since 2020, by country, and by the state they arrived in.

  – months

• New vehicles

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  New vehicles registered each month since 2000, by type and fuel, electric included.

  – months

• Holidays

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  Public holidays by state, federal and state, and school holidays, as the government lists them.

  – years

Weather

From MET Malaysia, in English and Bahasa Melayu.

• Weather warnings

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  Warnings in force: heavy rain, thunderstorms, strong winds and rough seas.

  – in force now

• Weather forecast

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  Seven days for every town and district, in English and Bahasa Melayu.

  – places

• Earthquakes

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  Earthquakes MET Malaysia reports in the region, with their strength, depth and distance from the nearest place in Malaysia.

  – reported

Places and map

From open sources, merged and cleaned.

• Places

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  Malaysia’s places and businesses, merged from three open sources and cleaned.

  – places

Map layers

Every layer is in the free ZIP, as a CSV with headings.

Coming next

Each one joins once it is live.

• Speed limits

  Planned

  The limit along every road, as signed.

• Flooded roads

  Planned

  Roads drivers report as flooded or turn back from, alongside MET Malaysia’s rain warnings.

• Festive traffic

  Planned

  The busiest days and roads around Raya, Chinese New Year and Deepavali.

• Rain and traffic

  Planned

  How much rain slows each city’s roads.

Free download

Most of the data in one file, free, with no key. 5 downloads a day from one internet address; the data changes once an hour.

For developers

The same data as JSON needs a free API key. Timetables (as GTFS), places and the busiest and slowest rankings come only through the API.

Free for any use. Name the source: “notuju, © OpenStreetMap contributors” for road and map data, and data.gov.my for public transport, weather, visitors and vehicles.