Open Data

Fintraffic supports the transport ecosystem by offering the data used  and collected in traffic management activities  openly for the public.

Act on Transport Services (320/2017) states that a traffic control and management service provider shall open the following up-to-date information in a machine-readable format via an open interface for free use:

  1. traffic-related meteorological data and weather forecasts;
  2. information on traffic-related conditions;
  3. measurement data on traffic amounts;
  4. information on traffic flow and travelling times;
  5. information on disturbances and exceptional circumstances;
  6. information on changing speed limits and other changing traffic rules;
  7. information on vehicle locations, if available;
  8. other public information produced through public funding and referred to in the Act on the Openness of Government Activities (621/1999), unless the disclosing authority prohibits its opening as open data.

Furthermore, a traffic control and management service provider shall open the following static information in a machine-readable format for free use via an open interface:

  1. history information on traffic flow and travelling times;
  2. history information on traffic and measurement data;
  3. history information on conditions;
  4. other statistical data.

Fintraffic is providing this data mainly via Digitraffic-service.