MELBOURNEPULSE
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During the hour from 10am on Tuesday, foot traffic across 97 sensors was 39,363, about the same as usual, and 44% of parking bays are free.

Pedestrian counts this hour
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Across 97 sensors, in the hour from 10am

Street Parking Free
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Bays whose sensor reported in the last 24 h

Busiest spot right now
Flinders La-Swanston St (West)
0 pedestrian counts/hour
Spatial Footprint

The City Right Now

Real sensor coordinates across Melbourne CBD. Dot size reflects current pedestrian volume; colour indicates activity relative to typical.

Busier (>+10%)
Usual (±10%)
Quieter (<-10%)
No baseline
Plotting 97 pedestrian counting stations in Melbourne CBD.Explore full interactive map & parking→
Real-time Dynamics

Right Now vs Usual

Today's actual foot traffic compared with the 8-week typical baseline across the top 6 busiest corridors.

Flinders La-Swanston St (West)

+5% busier
1,515/hr (typical: 1,446)
Actual 8-week Typical

Town Hall (West)

-2% quieter
1,446/hr (typical: 1,479)
Actual 8-week Typical

Spencer St-Collins St (North)

-5% quieter
1,317/hr (typical: 1,380)
Actual 8-week Typical

Bourke Street Mall (North)

+38% busier
1,109/hr (typical: 804)
Actual 8-week Typical

Southbank Promenade

-4% quieter
1,100/hr (typical: 1,140)
Actual 8-week Typical

QV2 Apartments, 300 Swanston Street

-3% quieter
1,045/hr (typical: 1,074)
Actual 8-week Typical
Machine Learning Forecast

The Next 24 Hours, Predicted

CBD-wide hourly foot traffic for the next 24 hours produced by our LightGBM model versus the 8-week historical median.

14% more accurate than the 8-week typical · tested on 132,696 unseen sensor-hours

Predicted peak at 5pm on Tuesday, -4% relative to the 8-week baseline.

Architecture & Pipeline

How It Works

From physical sensors on Swanston Street to your browser in sub-seconds.

Runs on $0 / Month · 100% Free Tiers
01CC BY Open Data

City of Melbourne Sensors

6,300+ in-ground parking sensors and 100+ optical pedestrian counting stations publishing live minutes.

02Automated at :07

Hourly GitHub Action

Pytest validation gate prevents corruption, downloads live records, aggregates into clean hourly bins.

030.25 CU · 90d

Neon Serverless Postgres

Serverless storage in Sydney. Scales to zero after 5 idle minutes. Reads protected via read-only role.

04AI Inference

LightGBM + Gemini Summary

LightGBM forecasts the next 24 hours with zero future leakage while Gemini Flash generates natural summaries.

Creator & Maintainer

Rukshan Dias

Data Science · Deakin University