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ANTT Pedagio

About the source

The ANTT (National Land Transport Agency — Agencia Nacional de Transportes Terrestres) publishes open data on vehicle traffic at highway toll plazas on the dados.antt.gov.br portal.

The data is a proxy for crop outflow: heavy commercial vehicles (3+ axles) correlate strongly with the transport of grains by road.

Datasets

Traffic Volume (primary)

  • Coverage: 2010-2025 (16 annual CSVs)
  • Granularity: Monthly, by plaza/concessionaire/vehicle category
  • Format: CSV separated by ;
  • Schema V1 (2010-2023): With header, category as text ("Categoria 1"-"Categoria 9")
  • Schema V2 (2024+): No header, axles as a number (2-18)

Toll Plaza Registry (reference)

  • Format: Single CSV (~200+ active plazas)
  • Columns: concessionaire, plaza, highway, state, km, municipality, latitude/longitude, status
  • Use: Automatic join with traffic data to enrich with state/highway/municipality

License

CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution). Open data with no authentication required.

Category Mapping

Category V1 Axles Type
1 2 Passeio
2 2 Comercial
3 3 Passeio
4 3 Comercial
5 4 Passeio
6 4 Comercial
7 5 Comercial
8 6 Comercial
9 2 Moto

Technical notes

  • apenas_pesados=True filters n_eixos >= 3 AND tipo_veiculo == "Comercial"
  • Volume is aggregated by plaza/month/axle (automatic/manual collection type is summed)
  • Default with no year filter = current year + previous (avoids downloading 16 CSVs)
  • Encoding: Windows-1252 with automatic fallback chain