Traffic Incidents service
Important notes:
- This TomTom Orbis API is in public preview.
- This API is powered by the TomTom Orbis Maps.
- See the TomTom Orbis Maps documentation for more information.
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.
Getting Started
Check these links to get started with the Traffic APIs:
How to get a TomTom API Key
When you use our location Service APIs, we need a way to identify that it is your application that is making the request to use the service (API).
TomTom Knowledge Base
The TomTom Knowledge Base optimizes the retrieval of information via articles, blogs, FAQs, tutorials, and videos for your use and reference.
Traffic Incidents in your map
How to Display Traffic Incidents and Traffic Flow on a Map Using the TomTom Traffic API
FAQs over the Traffic APIs
Visit our knowledgebase for up to date information on our APIs and SDKs.
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.