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Traffic API

The Traffic Service provides real time traffic information related to markets, incidents, and flow.

Traffic incidents

The Traffic Incidents request returns a structured list of traffic incidents for a specified bounding box in JSON or XML formats, e.g., road construction, traffic collisions.

MethodDocs Link
GET/traffic/v2/incidents
POST/traffic/v2/incidents

Traffic Markets

The Traffic Markets request returns a structured list of regions, or "markets", for which MapQuest provides traffic data. The list is available in JSON or XML formats.

MethodDocs Link
GET/traffic/v2/markets

Traffic Flow Image

The Flow Request returns an image of the current traffic for a particular area.

MethodDocs Link
GET/traffic/v2/flow

Supporting documentation