Melbourne Open Data Portal
City of Melbourne's open data portal has run since 2014, now hosting 239 datasets — pedestrian sensor counts (since 2009), on-street parking sensors, the tree canopy, and development activity monitoring. 226 of 239 datasets carry CC BY 4.0; 13, including the flagship pedestrian dataset, list no licence. Peer-reviewed papers use its pedestrian data for traffic-flow research.
📊 Impact
226 of 239 datasets (94.6%) carry a CC BY 4.0 licence; 13 datasets, including the pedestrian counting feed, have no licence recorded. Pedestrian sensor data has been used in at least three peer-reviewed studies since 2017.
🎓 Lesson
A city's most heavily reused dataset can be its least legally clear one — the pedestrian counting feed that multiple academic papers build on carries no licence at all, while less-used datasets are properly CC BY.
📖 Terms in this entry: Open data · Urban data platform (UDP) · Adaptive traffic signals
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📎 Cite this project
1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Melbourne Open Data Portal” — Melbourne, Australia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/melbourne-open-data-portal/ (last verified 2026-08-01). Data: CC BY 4.0.
The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.