UK Data: GB road traffic counts (DfT) is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.
Great Britain road traffic counts from the DfT: count points, vehicles per day by type, hourly
Uptime history
21 hours of history
21 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
75 of 75 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
215 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check UK Data: GB road traffic counts (DfT) every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add uk-roads-traffic --transport http https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-roads-trafficSettings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-roads-traffic~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.uk-roads-traffic]
url = "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-roads-traffic".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"uk-roads-traffic": {
"url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-roads-traffic"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"uk-roads-traffic": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-roads-traffic"
}
}
}Available tools 6
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
road
road_traffic_flow_at_point
Gives average annual daily flow (AADF) at one DfT count point: the average number of vehicles passing per day over a year, both directions together, split into cars and taxis, vans, HGVs, buses, motorbikes and pedal cycles, newest year first. Answers "how many cars pass this site a day" and "is traffic on this road rising" for shop, billboard, EV charger or planning work. Some years are estimated by DfT rather than counted, and each row says which; it does not cover live traffic or congestion. (cost: 1 credit)
road_traffic_hourly_counts
Returns the hour-by-hour manual traffic counts DfT recorded at one count point on its survey day, by direction of travel, with each direction's busiest hour and 12-hour total. Answers peak-hour questions such as "how busy is this road at 8am" for transport consultants and planning statements. Counts cover one weekday between 07:00 and 19:00 in the survey year, not averages or night-time, and many points are only surveyed every few years. (cost: 1 credit)
traffic
traffic_local_authority_find
Finds the DfT local authority id, ONS code and region for a council from its name (partial names work, e.g. "Leeds", "Bristol", "Kingston"), or from an ONS code such as E08000035. Use it before local_authority_traffic_totals or traffic_count_points_in_council. Covers Great Britain councils as DfT lists them, including some former councils kept for older years; it is not a postcode lookup. (cost: 1 credit)
traffic_regions_list
Lists the 11 Great Britain regions DfT uses for traffic statistics (the nine English regions, Scotland and Wales) with their DfT region ids, ONS codes and country. Use it to get the region_id for region_traffic_by_vehicle_type. Northern Ireland is not covered by DfT road traffic statistics. (cost: 1 credit)
local
local_authority_traffic_totals
Gives the total distance driven on all roads in one GB council area each year, in million vehicle miles (and vehicle km), for all motor vehicles and for cars and taxis, plus the area's road length, newest year first. Answers "how much traffic is there in Leeds and is it growing" for council officers, net-zero and carbon plans, and consultants comparing areas. Minor-road traffic is a DfT estimate; this endpoint does not split vans, HGVs or buses (use region_traffic_by_vehicle_type for that at region level). (cost: 1 credit)
region
region_traffic_by_vehicle_type
Gives annual traffic in one GB region (English regions, Scotland or Wales) by vehicle type, in million vehicle miles: cars and taxis, vans, HGVs, buses and coaches, motorcycles and pedal cycles, plus road length, newest year first. Useful for market sizing (for example van or HGV traffic for fleet services), journalism and coursework. Regional totals only; for a single council use local_authority_traffic_totals, and for one road use road_traffic_flow_at_point. (cost: 1 credit)
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-roads-traffic | streamable-http | answering | 604 ms | 9 min ago |
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UK Data: GB road traffic counts (DfT) — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can UK Data: GB road traffic counts (DfT) do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: local_authority_traffic_totals, region_traffic_by_vehicle_type, road_traffic_flow_at_point, road_traffic_hourly_counts, traffic_local_authority_find, traffic_regions_list. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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What is UK Data: GB road traffic counts (DfT) mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around road and traffic. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is UK Data: GB road traffic counts (DfT) working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 75 of 75 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 215 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect UK Data: GB road traffic counts (DfT)?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does UK Data: GB road traffic counts (DfT) need an API key?
No. UK Data: GB road traffic counts (DfT) completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is UK Data: GB road traffic counts (DfT)?
It answers our handshake in 215 ms on average, which is faster than 67% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.