# BTS Open Data SODA API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/bureau-of-transportation-statistics/bts-open-data-soda-api/  
**Provider:** Bureau of Transportation Statistics — https://apis.io/providers/bureau-of-transportation-statistics/  
**Base URL:** https://data.bts.gov/resource/  
**Documentation:** https://data.bts.gov/

BTS Open Data SODA API is one of 5 APIs that [Bureau of Transportation Statistics](https://apis.io/providers/bureau-of-transportation-statistics/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Federal-Government, Transportation, Open Data, and Statistics. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The BTS Open Data portal powered by Socrata provides programmatic access to transportation datasets via the Socrata Open Data API (SODA). Supports filtering, querying, and aggregation across aviation, freight, and transportation economics datasets. Also supports OData V2/V4 for tools like Tableau and Excel.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Portal** — https://data.bts.gov/
- **Documentation** — https://dev.socrata.com/
- **DataAPI** — https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?organization=dot-gov&q=bts
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bureau-of-transportation-statistics/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Bureau of Transportation Statistics APIs (4)

- [TranStats - Airline On-Time Performance Data](https://apis.io/apis/bureau-of-transportation-statistics/transtats/)
- [BTS Freight Analysis Framework (FAF)](https://apis.io/apis/bureau-of-transportation-statistics/bts-freight-data/)
- [Bureau of Transportation Statistics Metadata API](https://apis.io/apis/bureau-of-transportation-statistics/bureau-of-transportation-statistics-metadata-api/)
- [Bureau of Transportation Statistics Resource API](https://apis.io/apis/bureau-of-transportation-statistics/bureau-of-transportation-statistics-resource-api/)

## Tags

Federal-Government, Transportation, Open Data, Statistics

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