Route Monitoring API

Important Note
Explore ready-to-use traffic reports and data visualizations immediately by signing up for a 30-day free trial on the MOVE Portal. Once registered, you'll receive an API key to start using the Traffic Analytics APIs right away. Alternatively, you may contact our Sales team for a tailored solution.

Introduction

What is Route Monitoring?

The Route Monitoring API provides an intuitive and powerful way to monitor strategic routes in real time.

Route Monitoring gives customers the ability to pre-define routes important to their business and get detailed information on current travel time, current delay time and percentage delay, route distance, live data coverage, and data confidence level. Route information can also be checked at a segment level, providing accurate and detailed insight into traffic flow dynamics down to short length extensions.

This documentation covers two ways to use Route Monitoring:

• Route Monitoring API — a set of RESTful APIs for developers who want to integrate real-time route monitoring directly into their own applications.
• Route Monitoring in the MOVE Portal — a ready-to-use reference implementation for pre-defining and monitoring routes through a web interface, no coding required.

Getting Started

Use the following topics to become more acquainted with this API and its endpoints.

To enable the 30-day free trial of Route Monitoring — whether through the MOVE Portal or the API — you'll need to create a MOVE account at move.tomtom.com. Once your account is set up, you can:

• Set up and monitor routes directly in MOVE for 30 days, or
• Retrieve an API key to start calling the Route Monitoring API — once logged in to MOVE, your API key can be found in the menu.

Common use cases you can implement

• Measure travel time and delays on a defined route.
• Compare travel times between your routes.
• Identify bottlenecks and traffic congestion on your route.
• Monitor routes in details thanks to segment-level traffic flow data.
• Easily connect your routes to VMS (Variable Message Sign) displays.