Department of Transportation · FinOps Profile

Department Of Transportation Finops

Name: Department Of Transportation Finops
Creator: Department of Transportation
Keywords: Federal Government, Transportation, Open Data, FinOps, FOCUS

FOCUS-aligned FinOps for Department of Transportation public APIs: zero-cost public data services, funded through congressional appropriations rather than per-call billing. FinOps practice for consumers centers on operational cost (egress, caching, downstream storage, VIN-decode and recall-lookup compute) rather than provider invoice cost.

Department Of Transportation Finops is the FinOps profile for Department of Transportation on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 3 billable meters, billed in USD, on a n/a cycle, and pricing category free / public data.

The profile maps 9 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include Federal Government, Transportation, Open Data, FinOps, and FOCUS.

Category: Federal Government / Public Open Data Pricing: Free / Public Data Billing: N/A FOCUS v1.3

Federal GovernmentTransportationOpen DataFinOpsFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework

FinOps Foundation Framework

Data Spec

FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

Usage

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency

USD

ChargeCategory

Usage

InvoiceIssuerName

N/A (no invoice issued)

PricingCategory

Free

PricingUnit

request

ProviderName

U.S. Department of Transportation

PublisherName

U.S. Department of Transportation

ServiceCategory

Federal Government / Public Open Data

ServiceName

DOT Public APIs

Meters

api_requests

Unit: request

Public API requests (consumer-side count)

data_egress

Unit: GB

Bytes downloaded from DOT endpoints (consumer-side metric)

vin_decodes