Traffic signals and SCATS sites locations DCC

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Published by: Dublin City Council
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This dataset provides the geographic locations of junctions and pedestrian crossings equipped with traffic signals and/or SCATS detectors within the Dublin City Council administrative area. It forms part of Dublin City Council’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) infrastructure and supports regional traffic management and open data initiatives.

SCATS (Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System) is an adaptive urban traffic control system that synchronises traffic signals to optimise flow across a city, corridor, or region. Although the full SCATS system includes additional attributes, this dataset focuses on the core fields required for location‑based mapping and analysis. Included Attributes:

Site_ID: A unique identifier for each traffic signal or SCATS site.

Location: A descriptive location reference for the site.

Lat / Long: Geographic coordinates (latitude).

Long: Geographic coordinates (latitude), enabling spatial mapping of each site.

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Resource: Traffic signals and SCATS DCC

URL: https://data.smartdublin.ie/dataset/5fd277d3-4ece-45b7-982a-b6116c45470b/resource/400bb920-0263-4573-b920-0d0be005eab1/download/dcc_traffic_signals_20221130.csv

Locations of junctions and pedestrian crossings with traffic lights and SCATS sites’ detectors within the Dublin City Council administrative area.

SCATS – SCATS (Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System) is an adaptive urban traffic management system that synchronises traffic signals to optimise traffic flow across a whole city, region or corridor. Attributes:

  • SiteID : Site (signal and SCATS Site) identifier

  • Site_Description_Cap : Site description in capital letters

  • Site_Description_Lower: site description in lower case letters

  • Region: refers to SCATS regional servers

  • Lat: Geographic location (Latitude)

  • Long : Geographic location (Longitude)

  • Site_Type : Site type; it has two values: SCATS or Signal Site

  • SCATS means that both SCATS detectors and traffic signals (traffic lights) are present.

  • Signal Site value means that only traffic signals are present.

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Data Dictionary

Column Type Label Description
SiteID numeric
Site_Description_Cap text
Site_Description_Lower text
Region text
Lat numeric
Long numeric
Site_Type text

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Data last updated 16 December 2022
Metadata last updated 25 March 2026
Created 15 December 2021
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