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TxDOT statewide data contract

Unlock digital roadway insights with TxDOT's statewide connected vehicle data contracts

TxDOT responsibly acquires aggregated digital roadway, traffic and connected vehicle data to inform statewide transportation planning, operations, and innovation. These efforts support advanced modeling and artificial intelligence to deliver actionable insights from digital roadway data.

Through its statewide data contract, TxDOT offers traffic data and data services as part of its strategy to make transportation data accessible, actionable, and impactful—helping TxDOT and its partners respond to today’s challenges and plan for tomorrow.

This offering of data and data services includes aggregated speed and trip path data, and granular connected vehicle data.

Who can access data and data services?

User groups include:

  • TxDOT employees 
  • TxDOT contractors and consultants
  • Texas research partners
  • Texas public transportation partners, including: cities, counties, metropolitan planning organizations, and other Texas state agencies and their consultants. 

Start an access request

What insights will you uncover?

TxDOT works with partners to provide data and data services to transportation partners. Get started with TxDOT's statewide data contract.

Real-time and historic traffic and trip data

Access traffic data and tools.

Start request for digital roadway data

Speed and travel time information

  • Real-Time Traffic Data and Tools
  • Real-Time Traffic Flow Data
  • Connected Services Platform (API's)
  • Real-Time Traffic Monitoring Site

Historical Traffic Data and Analytics

  • Historical Travel Speed and Travel Time Archive
  • Historical Traffic Flow Profiles Statistics
  • IQ Roadway Analytics
  • Probe Data Analytics (PDA) Powered by CATT Lab

Trajectory and origin/destination data 

  • Trip Data & Analytics
  • Trip Path Dataset (Passenger and Truck)
  • Trip Analytics Powered by the CATT Lab

All requests start with an email to our service provider partner.

Include in your email

Specify your user group.

  • Are you a TxDOT employee, TxDOT contractor or consultant, Texas Research Partner, Texas Public Transportation Partner?

Specify the services you want

  • Speed and travel time information
  • Historical traffic data and analytics
  • Trajectory and origin/destination data 

The data provider will reach out and help you with the request process. 

TxDOT employees: You will be provided a form request and access will be granted immediately. 

All other groups: After group verification additional documentation may be requested prior to providing access. 

Granular connected vehicle data

Access vehicle journeys and hard braking/acceleration data.

Coming soon.

Connected Vehicle (CV) Journeys Data

  • Speed and movement information
  • 3-7% average penetration for Texas
  • 3 second pings
  • Provided in real-time feed (sub 60-second feed), batch request, or one-time request

Hard Braking/Acceleration Data 

  • Derivative of CV Data
  • GFORCE attribute shows data with <-0.3 or >0.3G
  • Provides starting speed, and ending speed 
  • Provided in batch request (daily or larger) or one-time request