We monitor traffic on land, at sea and in the air. Our goal is to make traffic more efficient and smoother and to enable new mobility solutions for both people and goods.
Over the coming years, renewing traffic will, above all, be about more extensive provision of and making much better use of all kinds of traffic-related data. In order to create the strongest possible foundation for a sustainable transport system in Finland and enable the development of new traffic services and solutions, data must flow smoothly between routes, vehicles, different modes of transport, service providers and end users.
Fintraffic’s key tasks include providing actors and data users in the traffic sector with centralised services for sharing and using information. The aim is to bring together actors interested in developing traffic services and to help create new services and permanent business.
Fintraffic data platforms already have hundreds of data users and data producers. The number of API calls made each year to our Digitraffic and Digitransit interfaces has already topped 16 billion.
The service data cover road, rail and water traffic and, among other things, the timetable and routing data for public transport. The services also provide comprehensive address and map interfaces. Most of the data types are obtained from information systems maintained by Fintraffic’s subsidiaries, municipalities and companies.
Our traffic data platform currently consists of three different systems whose data can be utilised by interested parties within the limits of service-specific and data-specific user rights.
All data shared through the Digitraffic and Digitransit services are machine-readable open data and available under the Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution license, which allows the development of new services and software and the combination of data.
Fintraffic’s traffic data publishing and development services include:
- Digitraffic, where you can find information on the smoothness of traffic flow and traffic conditions, notifications of traffic disruptions and exceptional situations, traffic volumes and more. Train timetables and locations. Sea traffic warning and disruption data and port timetable data.
- Digitransit, an open journey planner platform that focusses on the planning of public transport routes and the provision of real-time timetable information. Digitransit provides access to the Finnish public transport system and operational data through developer interfaces. Digitransit also covers Finland’s address information, maps and POI data related to addresses.
- FINAP traffic service catalogue is a national access point where traffic service providers submit essential information on their services, such as service descriptions, routes, timetables, prices and their booking and sales interfaces. Application developers can use these open data.
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