Transport Statistics API

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Summary

Transport Statistics API makes datasets and other data available programmatically using HTTP. It allows you to filter datasets and directly access specific data points.

Department for Transport publish statistics across a range of transport categories, most of which is available using this API. Including:

  • road accidents and safety
  • road traffic
  • vehicle licensing
  • search and rescue taskings

The Transport Statistics API is organized around REST.

Our API has predictable resource-oriented URLs, returns JSON-encoded responses, and uses standard HTTP response codes, authentication, and verbs.

Our OpenAPI 3 Specification documenation describes this API's endpoints, headers, bodies, query string parameters, examples, and much more.

Locations
United Kingdom
Topics
Accidents and incidents Safety Traffic data
Time period
-
Update frequency
Yearly
Transport mode
Buses, Cars, Electric vehicles, Heavy goods vehicles
Road network
-
Locations
United Kingdom
Regions
-
Topics
Accidents and incidents Safety Traffic data
Time period
-
Update frequency
Yearly
Transport mode
Buses, Cars, Electric vehicles, Heavy goods vehicles
Road network
-
Version
-
Date added
02/03/2021
Last updated
05/12/2022
Contact
The Transport Statistics Team
Contact email
tsapi@dft.gov.uk

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This dataset is hosted and viewable at:

http://transport-statistics.api.gov.uk/

To access this dataset you will need to visit their website.

Data formats
json
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