Rest areas, counted
A rest area is only useful to a truck if it will take one, and only useful for a night if something is there. Both are counted, including how often nobody recorded the answer.
Australia
6,028 rest areas
Rest areas
6,028sites
2,367 take heavy vehicles
Take heavy vehicles
2,367
39% of all rest areas
Toilet on record
2,094
of 6,028 where it was recorded
Facilities
100% surveyed
100% surveyed
100% surveyed
By type
- Minor Rest Area1,496
- Motorist Rest Area with facilities · 1 - 5 truck bays570
- Motorist Rest Area with facilities · None truck bays370
- Motorist and Heavy Vehicle Rest Area (shared) with facilities · 6 + truck bays294
- Motorist and Heavy Vehicle Rest Area (shared) with facilities · 1 - 5 truck bays268
- Heavy Vehicle Rest Area233
- Class 5 Heavy Vehicle Rest Area233
- Motorist Rest Area with facilities · 6 + truck bays210
- Light Vehicle Only Rest Area173
- Motorist and Heavy Vehicle Rest Area (shared) with facilities · None truck bays148
- TRUCK PARKING BAY147
- Major Rest Area122
Where the data comes from
- Queensland Transport and Main Roads2,132
- Main Roads Western Australia1,695
- RADAR national rest area dataset1,332
- Transport for NSW869
New Zealand
185 rest areas
Rest areas
185sites
3 take heavy vehicles · 182 do not say
Take heavy vehicles
3
100% of the 3 that record a vehicle type
Toilet on record
0
of 183 where it was recorded
Facilities
2% surveyed
99% surveyed
98% surveyed
By type
- Rest area173
- Service area12
Where the data comes from
- OpenStreetMap (New Zealand)185
About these numbers
"Not recorded" is counted separately from "no", everywhere on this page. A rest area with no toilet field is not a rest area without a toilet, and a driver deciding where to spend the night is entitled to that difference. Percentages are taken over the sites where the answer was actually recorded, never over the whole list.
Australian rest areas come from federal and state road-authority asset registers, which audit each site and record what is there, so a "no" from those really means none.
New Zealand has no equivalent open register, so its rest areas come from OpenStreetMap. That means far fewer sites and far less detail per site: most carry a position and a name and nothing else. The gap in the numbers below is a gap in the public data, not a gap in New Zealand's roads.