The Transport Management Center of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has websites and mobile applications that display traffic conditions in Istanbul.
Aside from data on individual roads, the website also provides a “traffic index” for the city. The index consists of three percentages:
I thought it might be fun to see how the traffic index has changed over time, and maybe play around with predicting the traffic index for the future. So I wrote a cron job that scrapes the traffic index from the API and stores it in ClickHouse.
The API endpoint 1 returns a JSON object with the following fields:
I also put the data on Kaggle 2, so you can play around with it.