Google Maps Platform RoadsBigQuery

Roads. A digital twin for your network, without a sensor in sight.

Every road segment in a city, ranked by hard braking
Network viewEvery segment ranked. Darker means a higher rate of hard braking.

We model your road network from Google’s traffic data: every segment, local roads included, with speeds, journey times, vehicle counts and disruptions. It lands in your own BigQuery data resource, with nothing to install at the roadside.

The platform. Every road segment, modelled from Google’s data.

Live journey times on a city’s roads, with the delay against free flow

Journey times and speeds

Google’s Roads Management Insights gives travel time by hour and day along any corridor you choose, with speeds refreshed every few minutes.

Hourly vehicle counts across a motorway junction

Vehicle counts

Estimated volumes by road, so you can compare busy and quiet roads fairly.

Hard-braking rates across a city’s road network

Hard braking

Where drivers brake hardest, relative to the distance driven. A leading indicator for road safety.

Live disruptions and closures across a road network

Disruptions

Incidents, closures and roadworks as Google sees them, alongside your own works programme.

Featured

Road safety. Find the hidden danger before it reveals itself.

Hard braking shows where the near misses are. We rank every road segment in a network by hard braking per kilometre driven, following a method published by Google Research, using plain arithmetic anyone can check.

Each one links to Street View, so an engineer can look at the junction or the crossing before anyone goes out to site. The judgement about what to change, and in what order, stays with your team.

Hard braking hotspots beside recorded collisions on a road network

What we build. Answers on congestion, safety and where to invest.

A route with a lane closure, its delay and the weather ahead

Network operations

Speeds, closures and roadworks across a city, updated as they change.

Every road segment in a city ranked by hard braking

Safety rankings

Every segment ranked, with the evidence attached, ready for your engineers.

Congestion and journey times through the day along a city route

Planning and investment

Journey times and volumes over time, to show where a scheme would do most.

Road travel time data as a BigQuery table, ready to query

Set up in your cloud

Datasets, permissions, regions and cost controls configured properly in your own Google Cloud project.

New for fleets and roadside assistance. Google is extending the same road data to logistics and roadside assistance. If that’s your business, let’s talk.

Bring us your network. We’ll show you what’s really happening on it.

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