Road511 Aggregates Planned Construction Data From 9 States Into Queryable Feed
Most traffic APIs only report current road conditions, leaving planners who need future construction data to manually search state DOT websites and compile PDF schedules into spreadsheets. Road511 has addressed this gap by normalizing planned-construction records from nine U.S. states and Canadian provinces into a single queryable feature type called future_construction. As of now, the dataset includes 2,161 projects, with Virginia contributing the most records at 927, followed by Delaware with 774 and New Jersey with 247. Unlike real-time work zone feeds, these records are drawn from agency project pipelines and carry projected start and end dates, though those dates are estimates and subject to change. The platform acknowledges current limitations, including some feeds returning no data and coverage spanning only nine jurisdictions, but aims to make corridor-level future planning a database query rather than a manual research task.
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