Case Study: Transurban achieves real-time traffic optimization and rapid equipment-issue detection with Tableau Software

Using Tableau, Transurban paves the road for success

Transurban, one of the world’s largest toll‑road operators across Australia, the United States and Canada, collects massive volumes of traffic data from magnetic sensors embedded every 200 metres. The company struggled with legacy reporting in Excel that couldn’t handle tens of billions of rows, limiting its ability to analyze traffic flow, spot accident hotspots and monitor critical roadside equipment in a timely way.

By adopting Tableau in 2016, Transurban moved to a scalable analytics platform with near‑real‑time dashboards that ingest huge datasets hourly. The solution enabled year‑on‑year traffic analysis and visualization of safety hotspots, and it dramatically sped up detection and response to equipment faults—optimizing road flow, improving safety and slashing the time to identify equipment issues.

Transurban

Michael Spence

Data Intelligence Lead Analyst