Download traffic data set from waze or other open traffic data set

Question

I am looking for open traffic data set for my thesis. I know the Waze has good congestion data set, however, my endeavors for finding a way to download its data set was resultless. So, could you please help me how can I access the historical or real-time congestion data? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Just accessing the traffic data of Waze is a bit complicated, but they do offer access to such data through programs like the Connected Citizens Project (though that is aimed more at governments). They also have a blog on which they post all kinds of data analysis results.

On that blog, I see a post of 2015 where "traklord" answers a question by asking them to contact him about the idea they're having. I'm not even sure whether he still works for Waze, but I guess it's worth a shot?