Is there a web site that can inform of the time taken to drive a
certain distance at a certain time of the day on a certain route?

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Clarification of Question by skip1851-ga on 14 Oct 2004 02:14 PDT

Sorry, I forgot to mention I was referring to Freeways in Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia only.  :-)

Sure, You didnt mention Europe or US but I guess from your "freeway" you mean US.

www.mapquest.com is great but doesnt include what time of day you might be leaving.

www.aaa-calif.com is also good, but you need to register

also i can highly recommen Maps.com and maps.yahoo.com

you should be able to answer your question with one of those links
thanks

honestly, you ask a difficult question.

Map services like MapQuest found they were influencing drive times by
the directions they gave, so they added in a randomizer that sends
people on a various few alternate routes to balance their effect.
You'll sometimes notice on entering a common driving route you know
well, depending on the randomizer and server, it puts out different
results, or one that you know is not shortest, but pretty close.

A good bet is to check if you have webcams posted by your government.
We have them here in the US, and you can check traffic density by
eyeballing/estimating. You'll also have to account that you'll be
seeing traffic coming from other sources, so picking points out from
your hotspots might help...i.e., on my 25 min. drive to work, 10 and
20 minutes are busy junctions, so look at cams 10 minutes away from my
10 min. junction, and 20 from the 20 junction.

Some individual people also have their own traffic updates or webcams,
but unless they are real time,...

Perhaps there are SMS services for cell phones?

Try also asking friends when the busy times run, and where.

Otherwise, radio traffic reports are about it.

happy driving!