The City of Gold Coast launched a trial to pedestrianise the Esplanade in Surfers Paradise (Hanlan St to Soul roundabout), aiming to enhance livability and create a safer, more attractive waterfront precinct. To make informed decisions, the city needed a clear understanding of how pedestrianisation would impact traffic flow, access and mobility patterns. Streetlight analytics seek to compliment traditional data collection and analysis, allowing for real-time reporting and visualisations of key network characteristics. 

StreetLight provides the city with on-demand mobility analytics, combining historical and real-time data on traffic volumes, speeds, congestion and travel patterns. This allows planners to establish a baseline of traffic conditions, monitor changes and impacts during the pedestrianisation trial, and feed insights into forecasting and simulation models for greater accuracy and decision making. By integrating these insights, the city can: 

• Evaluate outcomes with evidence-based analytics 
• Support community goals like safer pedestrian access, improved active transport, reduced pollution 
• Complement manual counts with scalable analytics.  

The approach not only strengthens the Esplanade trial but also creates a flexible framework for future projects across the Gold Coast. 

Queenstown and the Lakes District is one of New Zealand’s busiest tourist destinations, with high seasonal variation in travel demand. The region experiences distinct peaks during the winter ski season and summer adventure tourism, which place pressure on the road network, particularly along routes connecting the airport, CBD and surrounding attractions. Traditional traffic counts were too limited to provide the network-wide visibility needed to capture seasonal shifts, peak congestion periods and the impacts on accessibility across the district. 

StreetLight can provide the Queenstown Lakes District with on-demand mobility analytics, combining historical and real-time data to build transport models that reflect seasonal and daily demand patterns. By analysing travel volumes, congestion trends and route-level impacts between key destinations such as Queenstown Airport and the CBD, planners gain evidence-based insights to: 

• Understand differences between summer and winter demand
• Identify peak travel times and congestion patterns
• Evaluate accessibility across the region during tourist surges
• Complement existing traffic counts with scalable analytics 

This approach allows the district to develop more accurate and flexible transport models, ensuring that future planning decisions account for both local needs and the unique pressures of international tourism. 

The Story Bridge is one of Brisbane’s most critical transport links, carrying tens of thousands of trips daily. As part of a multi-stage restoration project, partial or full lane closures are being considered, raising concerns about congestion and diversions across the network. A recent incident on the bridge in July highlighted the potential scale of disruption, when an accident caused widespread traffic delays. To prepare effectively, Brisbane planners need clear insights into current bridge usage, origin-destination patterns, and the likely impacts of closures and diversions. 

StreetLight’s on-demand mobility analytics can provide the City with visibility into how, when, and where people rely on the Story Bridge. By combining origin-destination data with incident analysis, planners can model potential closures, evaluate diversion scenarios, and strengthen restoration traffic plans with evidence-based insights. With these capabilities, Brisbane will be able to: 

• Anticipate disruption scenarios and prepare targeted diversion strategies
• Balance local accessibility with regional mobility needs
• Support construction staging with data-driven evidence
• Enhance resilience planning for one of the city’s most vital transport assets