UK transport statistics releases

At a glance

Publisher

Department for Transport · homepage

Category

Transport & logistics

Jurisdiction

United Kingdom

Publisher updates

Several releases a week

SourceFinch checks

Daily by default

Records per run

20 in the latest run

Record key

id

Acquired from

Publisher's public API: https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics.atom?content_store_document_type=statistics_published&organisations%5B%5D=department-for-transport&order=updated-newest

Recipe

v1.0.0, approved October 13, 2026

Verified since

October 13, 2026

Last green run

October 13, 2026

What the data contains

Department for Transport publishes its official statistics on GOV.UK. GOV.UK's research and statistics finder provides, for each organisation, an Atom feed of the 20 most recently published or updated statistics pages. This source reads the Department for Transport feed of published statistics daily and makes one record per statistics page, keyed by its feed identifier, with the title, link, last-updated time and GOV.UK's summary. Releases include road traffic estimates, congestion and travel times, reported road casualties (aggregate tables), light rail and tram statistics and vehicle licensing statistics. A monitor reports each new release and each update to an existing statistics page (new editions are often added to the same page). The statistics themselves and their attachments are not fetched; titles and summaries describe the statistics, not people. An entry leaving the 20-item window is not a withdrawal. SourceFinch is independent of Department for Transport.

Fields and types

Every record has these fields. The key field id identifies a record across runs, so changes are reported field by field.

Sample output

The first 5 of 20 records from SourceFinch's own run on October 13, 2026, exactly as delivered.

[
  {
    "id": "tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/statistics/road-traffic-estimates-in-great-britain-2025",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/road-traffic-estimates-in-great-britain-2025",
    "title": "Road traffic estimates in Great Britain: 2025",
    "summary": "Road traffic estimates for Great Britain broken down by vehicle type and road type for 2025.",
    "updated_at": "2026-09-30T09:30:06+01:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/statistical-data-sets/road-traffic-estimates-tra",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/road-traffic-estimates-tra",
    "title": "Road traffic estimates (TRA)",
    "summary": "Data on road traffic by road and vehicle type, produced by Department for Transport.",
    "updated_at": "2026-09-30T09:30:06+01:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/statistical-data-sets/tra25-quarterly-estimates",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/tra25-quarterly-estimates",
    "title": "Quarterly traffic estimates (TRA25)",
    "summary": "Provisional data on road traffic by vehicle type and road class, produced by Department for Transport.",
    "updated_at": "2026-09-30T09:30:04+01:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/statistics/travel-time-measures-for-the-strategic-road-network-england-and-local-a-roads-great-britain-july-2025-to-june-2026",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/travel-time-measures-for-the-strategic-road-network-england-and-local-a-roads-great-britain-july-2025-to-june-2026",
    "title": "Travel time measures for the Strategic Road Network, England and local ‘A’ roads, Great Britain: July 2025 to June 2026",
    "summary": "Congestion on the Strategic Road Network (motorways and ‘A’ roads managed by National Highways) in England, and on locally managed ‘A’ roads in Great Britain for the year ending June 2026.",
    "updated_at": "2026-09-30T09:30:01+01:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/statistical-data-sets/average-speed-delay-and-reliability-of-travel-times-cgn",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/average-speed-delay-and-reliability-of-travel-times-cgn",
    "title": "Average speed, delay and reliability of travel times (CGN)",
    "summary": "Data on the average speed, delay and reliability of travel times on the Strategic Road Network (SRN) and local 'A' roads, produced by Department for Transport.",
    "updated_at": "2026-09-30T09:30:01+01:00"
  }
]

Evidence behind every value

• Each run keeps the publisher's exact response, hashed with SHA-256. This sample came from a response with hash 8203f68d2a22a9e14d282c66da1f8f26fdce3b942b8ba40650705cce28585d3f.
• Every value records where it came from in that response: a CSS path into the retained capture.
• Each run gets a signed manifest (Ed25519) timestamped by an RFC 3161 authority: this run's manifest hash is 0b3351a073247a806fff555af08691612781dd68ea0155699ed6306591eb32d7, timestamped October 13, 2026.
• The compliance state at capture is recorded with the evidence: robots.txt hash and verdict, AI-preference signals, crawler identity and the usage rights below.
• Download any run as an evidence bundle (WACZ) and check it offline, without trusting SourceFinch: sourcefinch verify-bundle run.wacz.

Terms posture and usage rights

GOV.UK's terms state that its content, including feeds made available for other websites and applications, is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0 unless otherwise stated, which permits copying, publishing, adapting and commercial use with attribution. Personal data and third-party rights are outside that licence; this source reads only feed metadata (identifiers, titles, links, update times and summaries) for Department for Transport statistics and never fetches linked pages. www.gov.uk/robots.txt allows the research and statistics feed path (it disallows only /search/all and print views).

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport. SourceFinch is independent of the publisher.

Usage rights travel with every record SourceFinch delivers (API, exports, webhooks and evidence bundles). They are our documented understanding of the publisher's stated terms, not legal advice.

Reliability

Runs, last 30 days

1

Green

100%

Failed

0

Median run time

0.7 s

Latest run

success, October 13, 2026

Measured on completed runs of this recipe version across SourceFinch, anonymized, within a rolling 30-day window. First successful observation: October 13, 2026. A new recipe has only the history collected since that date; this is not a 30-day uptime guarantee.

Use it

Every surface creates the same monitor from this Verified recipe. Monitors keep record history, report field-level changes and deliver by webhook, export or email. You confirm you have the right to collect the source (rights: true).

{
  "schema": "sourcefinch/source@1",
  "name": "UK transport statistics releases",
  "url": "https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics.atom?content_store_document_type=statistics_published&organisations%5B%5D=department-for-transport&order=updated-newest",
  "recipe": {
    "mode": "http",
    "format": "xml",
    "items": "entry",
    "fields": {
      "id": "id",
      "url": "link[rel=\"alternate\"]@href",
      "title": "title",
      "summary": "summary",
      "updated_at": "updated"
    },
    "required": [
      "id",
      "title",
      "url",
      "updated_at"
    ],
    "types": {
      "updated_at": "datetime"
    }
  },
  "schedule": "daily",
  "key_field": "id"
}

{
  "name": "UK transport statistics releases",
  "url": "https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics.atom?content_store_document_type=statistics_published&organisations%5B%5D=department-for-transport&order=updated-newest",
  "recipe": {
    "mode": "http",
    "format": "xml",
    "items": "entry",
    "fields": {
      "id": "id",
      "url": "link[rel=\"alternate\"]@href",
      "title": "title",
      "summary": "summary",
      "updated_at": "updated"
    },
    "required": [
      "id",
      "title",
      "url",
      "updated_at"
    ],
    "types": {
      "updated_at": "datetime"
    }
  },
  "key_field": "id",
  "schedule": "daily",
  "rights": true,
  "catalog": {
    "slug": "govuk-dft-transport-statistics",
    "version_id": "34dc69c2-f074-4ed8-902d-72b70e2cb035"
  }
}

# the Verified entry (fields, recipe, sample, terms) as JSON
curl https://sourcefinch.com/v1/catalog/govuk-dft-transport-statistics -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY"

# create the monitor from source.json (below)
curl -X POST https://sourcefinch.com/v1/sources \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d @source.json

# then run it now (later runs follow the schedule)
curl -X POST https://sourcefinch.com/v1/sources/$SOURCE_ID/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)"

sourcefinch login
sourcefinch catalog get govuk-dft-transport-statistics --source-json > source.json
sourcefinch sources create --file source.json
sourcefinch runs create $SOURCE_ID --wait
sourcefinch records $SOURCE_ID

import { SourceFinch } from "@sourcefinch/sdk";

const sf = new SourceFinch({ apiKey: process.env.SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY });
const entry = await sf.catalog.get("govuk-dft-transport-statistics");
const source = await sf.sources.create({
  catalog: { slug: entry.slug, version_id: entry.recipe.version_id },
  name: entry.name.slice(0, 100),
  url: entry.acquisition_path.endpoint,
  recipe: entry.recipe.definition,
  key_field: entry.recipe.key_field,
  schedule: entry.recipe.schedule,
  rights: true, // you confirm you have the right to collect this source
});
const run = await sf.runs.wait((await sf.runs.create(source.id)).id);
console.log(run.status);

claude mcp add --transport http sourcefinch https://sourcefinch.com/mcp

# then ask your agent:
"Use SourceFinch to monitor UK transport statistics releases: get_catalog_source govuk-dft-transport-statistics,
then create_source with its create_source_args (dry run first), then run_source."

Pricing

Each check is one run, whatever the number of records, and failed runs are free. On its default daily schedule this source uses about 30 runs a month, which fits the Free plan's 300 runs. It uses HTTP acquisition, so no browser runs are needed. See plans.

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