Real-Time Traffic Data API

The Real-Time Traffic Data API gives you live traffic conditions for any geographic area, sourced from Waze's crowdsourced data network. When a driver spots an accident, a road hazard, police presence, or a traffic jam, they report it - and that report is immediately available through the API. You get traffic alerts with GPS coordinates, street-level detail, and community-verified confidence scores, plus traffic jam data with current speed and congestion severity.

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Alerts are reported directly by drivers and cover accidents, road hazards (construction, weather, objects on road, stopped vehicles), road closures, police presence, and traffic jams. Each alert includes its type and subtype, GPS coordinates, street name, a driver-provided description where available, a reliability score, a confidence score, and a thumbs-up count from other drivers who confirmed the report on the road.

Every alert is submitted by a driver who actually witnessed the condition. Other drivers passing the same spot can confirm it with a thumbs-up, which raises the alert's confidence score. The reliability score reflects the reporting driver's track record. Together, these signals let you assess how trustworthy an alert is before acting on it - useful for filtering out false positives in automated systems.

Each traffic jam object includes a severity level (1-5), current speed in km/h, jam length in meters, delay in seconds, and GPS polyline coordinates for the affected road segment. When the jam is caused by a blocking event - a road closure or accident - the API links the jam to that source alert so you see the root cause, not just the congestion.

You define the area using a bounding box (bottom-left and top-right latitude/longitude pairs) or a center point plus a radius in KM or MI. You can cap how many alerts and jams are returned per call, and filter to only the alert types you care about.

Yes - you can request only accidents, only police reports, only hazards, or any combination. Subtype filtering is also supported, so you can narrow down to specific conditions like construction-related hazards or road closure events specifically.

Traffic monitoring dashboards, fleet and logistics route optimization, smart city and urban mobility platforms, incident detection and alerting systems, insurance telematics, and any application where knowing what's actually happening on the road right now changes the outcome.