Traffic Incidents service
Purpose
The Traffic Incidents service is a suite of web services designed for developers to create web and mobile applications around real-time traffic.
- These web services can be used via RESTful APIs.
- The Traffic Incidents APIs are based on real-time traffic data from TomTom Traffic™.
The Traffic API Traffic Incidents service consists of the the following endpoints:
Incident Details
The Incident Details service provides information on traffic incidents which are inside a given bounding box or whose geometry intersects with it.
Vector Incident Tiles
The Traffic Vector Incidents Tiles API provides data on zoom levels ranging from 0 to 22.
Raster Incident Tiles
The Traffic Raster Tiles service serves 256 x 256 pixel or 512 x 512 pixel tiles showing traffic incidents.
Getting Started
Check these links to get started with the Traffic APIs:
Blogs and tutorials
Traffic Incidents in your map
Display traffic incidents and flow on a map with the Traffic API.
Features
Harness the power of TomTom Traffic™ for your application!
TomTom’s Traffic Incident RESTful API
- Is updated every minute with the very latest traffic incident and delay information.
- Returns detailed information about traffic jams and traffic related incidents. Details include: start-location, end-location, road-name, type of delay, length (in time) of the delay, significance, and distance.
- The Incident Tile API provides traffic incident and delay information for display on your map view.