Plan road closures with the Closure Tool

The Closure Tool lets partners shut roads on the Waze map. You might use information technology for planned construction, big-scale events similar marathons, natural disasters similar flooding, and more. When a section of road is closed, Waze volition non road traffic through it.

The tool is accessible to partners through the Waze Map Editor. For planned closures, the road will exist closed only during the time specified. For real-time closures, the road is closed immediately.

To use the Closure Tool:

  1. Log in to the Waze Map Editor with your organization's institutional username
  2. In the Search location section, type where y'all want to add a closure in your polygon. It can exist a street name, a city, or specific coordinates.
  3. In the top right corner, click thelayer icon
  4. Check the boxes for Roads and Closures
  5. Zoom in to the area where you want to add a closure
  6. Click a street to select it. To select multiple streets, press the ctrl (Windows) or command (iOS) key, and then click streets to select them.
  7. Click the Closures tab on the left, and then Add together a closure
  8. Fill out the relevant info, and then click Add

Study a closure via email

Send an electronic mail to waze-closures@waze.com and our teams volition add together the relevant closure data to the map straight. We accept data in the following formats:

As a spreadsheet

If you choose to transport a spreadsheet, please ensure yous've included the post-obit information:

  • All of the street names that will be closed during the consequence
  • The intersecting street where each closure begins and ends
  • The first and stop time of each road that will be airtight
  • The get-go and end date of each road that will be airtight
  • Indicate if the whole road is closed or just i direction is airtight

Your spreadsheet should resemble this format:

Every bit a screenshot

If y'all would like to send the information as a screenshot, please ensure that the closed roads are marked clearly and include in the electronic mail trunk the first time and finish time of each closure.

Your screenshot should expect like this:

As a map image

Please betoken the start and stop time and date that each route will exist closed, and include all roads that will be affected.

Your image should look like this:

Having problems with closures? Try this

Before reaching out to Waze, try to troubleshoot it on your own:

  1. Bank check the problem on at least one other phone.
    • Are you getting different results?
    • Are y'all getting dissimilar routes?
    • Are the closures only actualization on one telephone and not the other?
  2. If you had already driven through the road in question, delete this destination from your Waze history (Left menu and then swipe right and then delete) and re-test the route.

If the result persists, email Closures@google.com the following information:

  • Username experiencing the problem
  • Date/time that the problem occurred
  • Detailed description of the result y'all're experiencing
  • Confirm that yous completed the Troubleshooting steps (listed above)
  • Answer the following questions for both the Live Map and Waze Map Editor (if possible)
    • Description of trouble location (include the segment ID, if possible)
    • Do the closures appear in the Editor, but not in the Alive Map?
    • Do the closures announced in both the Editor and the Live Map, but not in the Waze mobile app?

Got questions?

How do Waze road closures work and why should I submit them?

From highways to county roads, the need for closures comes up oft — whether it's for planned events like a parade or a block party, or for unplanned emergencies related to crashes, utility piece of work, or natural disasters. Submitting either kind of closure to Waze helps route drivers in your community around closed roadways, improving traffic and reducing driver frustration.

Waze likewise supports scheduled or time-based restrictions, which we sometimes call "partial restrictions". Fractional restrictions are used when turns or roadways are restricted on a regular basis at certain times of the day, days of the week, or for sure vehicle types. For example, a roadway in front end of a school closes at recess each weekday for kids to have a safe space to play.

Still, Waze currently merely supports full roadway closures, non closures that simply bear upon some lanes. Any delays caused past lane closures are automatically reported as Jams Alerts.

Waze only includes public roadways in navigation, and then individual or dirt roads will not appear in routing directions.

How practise Waze users experience route closures?

Closures appear in both the Waze app and the Waze Live Map. Waze'due south routing software will non utilise segments marked as closed when providing driving directions to users. Waze users see unscheduled closures represented by candy cane stripes and scheduled closures represented past white stripes. Closures submitted straight via your organization volition include your Waze username, letting drivers know that the information came from an official source.

How soon will my road closure appear on the map?

Road closures submitted via Data Feed or the Closure Tool appear on the map between ane to iv minutes later entry. Route closures submitted via electronic mail may take upwardly to two business days to be candy.

If the road closure you submit has missing information, it will be uploaded as a "Map Issue" which volition then get routed to Waze Map Editors for review before appearing on the map.

Check the status of your closures by looking for an alert on the Waze Alive Map or the Waze Map Editor, or download the Waze Feed and locate your closures there.

Can I edit my road closure later on I've already submitted it?

You can edit your road closure by submitting changes to the source where you originally created the warning — in your Waze Data Feed or Road Closure Tool, or by communicating with Support or your Map Editor.

How are roads reopened on the map subsequently a closure?

Waze will reopen a route marked closed for any of the post-obit reasons:

  • The appointment/fourth dimension of the closure you submitted has passed
  • You update your feed or email Waze and tell u.s. you have reopened the roadway earlier than expected (e.thousand. y'all finished a big construction project ahead of schedule)
  • Waze's algorithm detects pregnant levels of driving on a road marked as airtight

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