Sources and licences

Every source a Trafica page reads live or draws from, with its licence as that page credits it, and how often it is read. Nothing on any page names a person: the units are trains, planes, buses, bikes, roads, stations, prices and counts.

SourceOnWhat it givesLicenceHow it is read
ViaggiaTreno (Trenitalia and RFI)/italy, /italy/saronno, the Italy endpoints, the watcherStation boards, each train's run with its stops, delay and platform, the national count of trains running.Unofficial, no licence published. Trenitalia's site terms ask for its prior express consent before reuse and allow personal, non-commercial use; a consent letter in Max's name is drafted (19 October 2026). The pages credit it by name and ask search engines to leave them out.Boards once a minute per open station, runs every 30 to 90 s, answers shared at the CDN 20 to 300 s; at most 1,500 fresh reads a minute per server.
Trenord GTFS (Regione Lombardia open data)/italyStation positions in Lombardy.© Trenord, CC BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0; positions extracted from the GTFS.Built into the map file.
OpenStreetMap/italy (tracks, lakes, station views, subways), /france (rails file)Railway tracks, lakes, each station's own tracks, platforms and stop positions, station points where ViaggiaTreno has none, and every subway line in Italy with its stations.© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL; the derived files rails.json, subways.json and the station files are offered under the ODbL too.Built into files; rebuilt by hand.
Wikidata/italyStation points where neither ViaggiaTreno nor OpenStreetMap places a station well.CC0.Built into the map file.
ISTAT, through openpolis/italy, /fuelProvince outlines.© ISTAT, from openpolis, CC BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0; simplified and redrawn.Built into the map file.
adsb.lol/italy (planes)Every plane over Italy its ADS-B feeders hear: callsign, registration, type, altitude, speed, track, position.© adsb.lol contributors, ODbL.Two reads every seven minutes at most, within its 500 a day; each plane moved on by its own speed between reads.
Virtual Radar Server standing data/italy (a plane's card)The route its users logged for a callsign, with the airports and the airline; shown only when the plane lies on one of its legs.CC0 1.0, as the repository's LICENSE gives it; built from submissions to the SDM site.Each file once per six hours per server, from github.com/vradarserver/standing-data.
Roma Servizi per la Mobilità (Atac, Roma TPL)/italy (buses)Every bus and tram in Rome with a position, by its GTFS-RT vehicle feed.No licence named on its open data page; the feed is offered "esclusivamente a titolo di supporto al viaggio", which a live map is. Credited by name; no history kept.Every 30 s per server, 30 s at the CDN.
GTT, Gruppo Torinese Trasporti (aperTO)/italy (buses)Every GTT bus and tram in Turin with a position and bearing, by its GTFS-RT vehicle feed.CC BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, rights holder GTT.Every 30 s per server, 30 s at the CDN.
nextbike (Bergamo, Senigallia)/italy (bikes)Stations with bikes and free docks, and free bikes, by each system's GBFS feed.CC0-1.0, as each feed names it. BikeMi, Verona Bike, Cooltra and Zeus also answer but name no licence, so they wait for one or for consent asked; Bird names a GBFS Data License Agreement whose address answers 404, so there is no licence to read, and it is held with the four that name none.Every minute per server, a minute at the CDN; station lists once an hour.
TomTom Traffic/streets, /trafficLive flow on every road TomTom carries: tiles over Italy, the Como readings, and for a tapped place on /streets its map tiles' road names with the flow street by street.TomTom's developer terms, under Max's own key. The caption "Traffic ©TomTom" is shown as TomTom's own caption endpoint returns it (clause 17.3). The 120 s cache of /streets tiles at the CDN is read by Stickler as the scaling clause 11.4 forbids; Max chooses the lawful design. Clause 11.6.8 bars any camera or radar siting on TomTom data./streets tiles as viewers look, held 120 s; a tapped place read fresh each tap and kept nowhere, at most 2,000 tiles a day; /traffic every 5 to 15 minutes by the Mac poller.
SNCF Horaires and SNCF Réseau/franceEvery SNCF train's delays by its GTFS-RT feed, its timetable, and the lines in service.Contient des informations de Horaires SNCF, sous licence ODbL; railway lines © SNCF Réseau, ODbL; the rails file under the ODbL too.The feed on the server at most once a minute, held two minutes at the CDN; the page asks every two minutes.
IGN Admin Express, through france-geojson/franceRegion outlines, 2018 edition.© IGN, Admin Express 2018, Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab), through france-geojson.Built into the map file.
Renfe Operadora/spainTrain positions and trip updates by Renfe's GTFS-RT feeds, and its timetables.Origen de los datos: Renfe Operadora, CC BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0; datos reprocesados por Trafica.The feeds on the server at most every 20 s, held 30 s at the CDN; the page asks every half minute. Renfe says its commuter positions refresh every 20 s and its long-distance positions every 15 minutes.
Natural Earth/spain (outlines, lines), /clock (land)Region outlines, coarse railway lines, the world's land.Public domain.Built into files.
GeoNames/clockPlaces with their time zones.CC BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.Built into a file.
Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy/fuel, /streetsEvery filling station's declared prices at 8:00 and the register of stations; for a tapped place on /streets, the stations around it from the ministry's own station search (carburanti.mise.gov.it), each with its latest declaration.Fonte: MIMIT, Osservaprezzi carburanti, IODL 2.0 (dati.gov.it/iodl/2.0); published daily.Both files each hour per server; answers 10 minutes at the CDN. The station search once per tapped place, 10 minutes at the CDN.
U.S. Energy Information Administration/fuel (crude oil, once a key is on the server)Daily Brent and WTI spot prices.EIA data is free of charge and asks to be used under its copyright and reuse policy, with credit.Once an hour, once a key is set.
Eurostat/immigrationRegistrations as residents, first and valid permits, citizenship granted, Italy, by citizenship and year.Reuse authorised for commercial or non-commercial purposes provided the source is acknowledged; cited as Eurostat with the dataset name.Every six hours per server, an hour at the CDN.
UNHCR operational data portal/immigrationSea arrivals in Italy by month.CC BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, as the portal's Italy page links it.Every six hours per server.
Statistics Canada/immigrationImmigrants to Canada by quarter, table 17-10-0040-01.Statistics Canada Open Licence. Source: Statistics Canada, table 17-10-0040-01, the reference date shown on /immigration. Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 17-10-0040-01, that date. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.Every six hours per server.
Ministero dell'Interno and IRCC/immigration (linked)The daily landings dashboard (a PDF) and Canada's monthly permanent resident and new citizen files.CC BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (Interno, by the badge on its page). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (IRCC, version 2.0).Linked, with figures read by hand on 19 October 2026; not yet read by machine.

Where else traffic numbers come from

Public data and APIs for traffic, checked on 23 September 2026, with prices read again on 24 October 2026. Governments publish yearly counts as files. Live street level traffic comes from a few companies who get it from phones and connected cars and sell it: TomTom, HERE and Google below, and INRIX, which says it covers any road in the world (docs.inrix.com, read 24 October 2026). A reading needs phones and cars on the road, so a quiet side street in a small town can go without one. That is the gap this project sits in.

Canada and Ontario

SourceWhat it givesLiveCost
Ontario MTO provincial highway traffic volumesAnnual average daily traffic per highway segment, 1988 to 2024, in one CSV. Highway 26 at the west limits of the former Town of Meaford: 5,400 vehicles a day in 2019, 5,750 in 2024 (Traffic_Volumes_1988-2024.csv, read 24 October 2026).NoFree
Ontario daily highway traffic dataDaily volume and vehicle class from 60 permanent count stations across the province.NoFree
Canada open data, traffic volumeOlder provincial traffic volume set, 1998 to 2010, CSV.NoFree
Canada open data, commercial vehicle flowsTruck traffic by road network, with annual daily truck counts.NoFree
Statistics Canada traffic flow dashboard
The closest thing a government has done to what Trafica does, and it was shut down.
Vehicle counts from traffic cameras using a computer vision detector, Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Ontario and Alberta. Discontinued 16 June 2026, as the page says (read 24 October 2026). History only.NoFree
Grey County roadsThe county road network as a map layer. No county traffic counts were found online.NoFree

Live traffic, commercial, worldwide

SourceWhat it givesLiveCost
TomTom Traffic APILive flow and incidents on mapped roads, from connected cars and phones, worldwide.YesFree each month: 200,000 traffic tiles, 20,000 flow segment requests and 2,500 incident details; above that, prices on request. TomTom's pricing page, read 24 October 2026.
HERE Traffic APILive flow and incidents, worldwide.YesPrices on request: HERE's pricing page lists none for traffic (read 24 October 2026).
Google Maps Platform, Routes APITravel times with live traffic, worldwide. No raw counts or speeds per road.YesCompute Routes: 10,000, 5,000 or 1,000 free a month by tier (Essentials, Pro, Enterprise), then US$5, US$10 or US$15 per 1,000. Google's pricing page, last updated 21 October 2026, read 24 October 2026.

Open data elsewhere

SourceWhat it givesLiveCost
UK Department for Transport road traffic statisticsCounts by vehicle type, road and area for Great Britain, with an open API and no key. The model of what an open traffic API should look like.NoFree
Transport for London unified APILondon transport data including roads, free key.YesFree
US Highway Performance Monitoring SystemEvery state reports yearly traffic to the federal system, published as files per state.NoFree