Metro Transit

Metro Transit provides real-time departure information, service alerts, trip planning, and schedule data APIs for the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan transit system. The APIs support creating transit departure displays and accessing real-time bus and train arrival data for the Twin Cities.

Metro Transit publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Alerts API, NexTrip API, Planner API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Minneapolis, Minnesota, Public Transportation, Real-Time, and Transit.

Metro Transit’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, and 6 more developer resources.

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24.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

AccessFreeOpen⚡ Free to try

4 APIs

MinneapolisMinnesota Public Transportation Real-Time Transit

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 24.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 8.9 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 3.4 / 18

Access Clarity 2.4 / 18

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 12

Contract Governance 0.0 / 11

Discoverability 6.7 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Metro Transit Alerts API

The Alerts API from Metro Transit — 3 operation(s) for alerts.

Metro Transit NexTrip API

The NexTrip API from Metro Transit — 8 operation(s) for nextrip.

Metro Transit Planner API

The Planner API from Metro Transit — 8 operation(s) for planner.

Metro Transit Schedule API

The Schedule API from Metro Transit — 5 operation(s) for schedule.

Open Collections 9

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Service Alerts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Service Alerts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Service Alerts NexTrip API

OPEN COLLECTION

NexTrip API

OPEN COLLECTION

Service Alerts Planner API

OPEN COLLECTION

Service Alerts Schedule API

OPEN COLLECTION

Schedule API

OPEN COLLECTION

Trip Planner API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Metro Transit Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Metro Transit Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Metro Transit Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Metro Transit Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Metro Transit Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Metro Transit Agentic Access

24 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: metro-transit
name: Metro Transit
description: Metro Transit provides real-time departure information, service alerts, trip planning, and schedule data APIs
  for the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan transit system. The APIs support creating transit departure displays and accessing
  real-time bus and train arrival data for the Twin Cities.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · Open access
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/metro-transit.png
tags:
- Minneapolis
- Minnesota
- Public Transportation
- Real-Time
- Transit
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/metro-transit/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2025-05-02'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: metro-transit:metro-transit-alerts-api
  name: Metro Transit Alerts API
  description: The Alerts API from Metro Transit — 3 operation(s) for alerts.
  humanURL: https://svc.metrotransit.org/swagger/index.html
  baseURL: https://svc.metrotransit.org/nextripv2
  tags:
  - Alerts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metro-transit-alerts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://svc.metrotransit.org/swagger/index.html
- aid: metro-transit:metro-transit-nextrip-api
  name: Metro Transit NexTrip API
  description: The NexTrip API from Metro Transit — 8 operation(s) for nextrip.
  humanURL: https://svc.metrotransit.org/swagger/index.html
  baseURL: https://svc.metrotransit.org/nextripv2
  tags:
  - NexTrip
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metro-transit-nextrip-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://svc.metrotransit.org/swagger/index.html
- aid: metro-transit:metro-transit-planner-api
  name: Metro Transit Planner API
  description: The Planner API from Metro Transit — 8 operation(s) for planner.
  humanURL: https://svc.metrotransit.org/swagger/index.html
  baseURL: https://svc.metrotransit.org/nextripv2
  tags:
  - Planner
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metro-transit-planner-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://svc.metrotransit.org/swagger/index.html
- aid: metro-transit:metro-transit-schedule-api
  name: Metro Transit Schedule API
  description: The Schedule API from Metro Transit — 5 operation(s) for schedule.
  humanURL: https://svc.metrotransit.org/swagger/index.html
  baseURL: https://svc.metrotransit.org/nextripv2
  tags:
  - Schedule
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metro-transit-schedule-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://svc.metrotransit.org/swagger/index.html
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/metro-transit-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/metro-transit-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/metro-transit-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/metrotransit
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/metro-transit
- type: Portal
  url: https://www.metrotransit.org/developer-resources
- type: Documentation
  url: https://svc.metrotransit.org/swagger/index.html
- type: Website
  url: https://www.metrotransit.org/
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.metrotransit.org/integrations
integrations:
- name: metro transit on X
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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