Transport for The Netherlands

About Transport for The Netherlands

KV78Turbo-OVAPI is a REST API implementation providing public transport arrival and departure data for the Netherlands, hosted at v0.ovapi.nl. It is built on "passtimes" — expected times at which a vehicle passes a given point — and supports queries by timing point, stop area, line, or journey, with comma-separated requests for querying multiple objects at once.

Access is governed by the GOVI license, under which retrieved data may not be stored for more than 30 minutes and is not suitable for analyzing operator punctuality (with an exception noted for GVB, HTM, and Veolia Haaglanden). Users are asked to set a custom user-agent and use gzip compression, and are directed to request a KV78Turbo license from OpenOV (secretariaat@openov.nl) to run their own feed rather than scraping the same timing points repeatedly.

The repository is intended for developers building applications that consume Dutch public transport timing data, such as departure boards or journey tracking tools, rather than for large-scale historical performance analysis.

Key features

• REST API for public transport passtime (expected arrival/departure time) data
• Query by timingpoint, stop area, line, or journey
• Supports comma-separated requests for multiple objects at once
• Supports gzip compression to reduce bandwidth usage

Frequently asked questions