Open Mobility Data for Brussels
Access real-time and years of historical mobility data from across the Brussels-Capital Region. One API, every transport mode.
Everything you need to build with mobility data
Access diverse, quality-assured mobility data from Brussels. Explore real-time and historical feeds from public transport, micro-mobility, railway, traffic, and air-quality sources.
Real-time feeds
Live geospatial location feeds from public transport, micro-mobility, railway, traffic, and air-quality sources.
Enriched & integrated
Processed data is enriched and integrated, letting you build applications on high-quality, enhanced datasets.
One unified API
A single access point for all mobility data in Brussels — no need to search through multiple sources.
Historical archives
Access large volumes of historical mobility data for batch analytics and research.
Clean & fused
Efficient pipelines for data cleansing, enhancement, and fusion ensure high-quality, analysis-ready data.
Open & collaborative
A collaborative research platform that encourages community contributions to refine and improve datasets.
Explore by data source
Browse available datasets by category. Each source includes real-time and historical endpoints.
SNCB
4 endpointsSNCB is the national railway company of Belgium. It is an autonomous government company. It is responsible for the operation of the national railway system. It provides a GTFS and GTFS-RT feed. The MobilityTwin.Brussels platform enriches these by providing estimated positions of the trains based on the GTFS-RT feed.
INFRABEL
4 endpointsInfrabel is the company which manages the railway infrastructure in Belgium. It provides a detailed map of the railway network in Belgium. They also provide a daily report of the lateness of the trains.
STIB
9 endpointsSTIB is the main public transport operator in Brussels. It has its own open data platform which provides different data sets. The GTFS feed is used to provide the schedule of the vehicles. Contrary to the SNCB and other operators, the STIB does not provide a GTFS-RT feed. It provides different proprietary APIs to get the real-time data. The MobilityTwin.Brussels platform provides a vehicle_position endpoint which provides the estimated positions of the vehicles based on the GTFS feed and the proprietary APIs. It also provides the vehicle_schedule endpoint which provides the schedule of the vehicles per stop for a given period of time.
TEC
2 endpointsThe TEC is the main public transport operator in Wallonia with a fraction of its network in Brussels. It publishes a GTFS feed which is used to provide the schedule of the vehicles and a GTFS-RT feed which is used to provide real-time data.
DE LIJN
2 endpointsDe Lijn is the main public transport operator in Flanders with a fraction of its network in Brussels. It publishes a GTFS feed which is used to provide the schedule of the vehicles and a GTFS-RT feed which is used to provide real-time data.
MICROMOBILITY
4 endpointsMicromobility is a new form of mobility which is growing in Brussels. It includes bikes, scooters, etc. It is becoming more and more important in the mobility landscape of Brussels which is transitioning towards a more sustainable mobility. The MobilityTwin.Brussels platform provides separate endpoints for each operator. The data is provided in the GeoJSON format.
TRAFFIC
6 endpointsThe traffic component provides some information about the traffic in Brussels. It uses Telraam data to provide the number of vehicles per hour per day for certain segments of the Brussels road network. An other endpoint provides the count of vehicles registered by the cameras present in the tunnels of Brussels.
ENVIRONMENT
2 endpointsThe environment component provides some information about the environment in Brussels. It uses OpenWeather data to provide the weather for Brussels. An other endpoint provides the air quality data for Brussels (provided by Irceline).
Start in minutes
Three steps to access real-time and historical mobility data for Brussels.
Create an account
Sign up for free with your email. No credit card required, no usage limits for research.
Generate an API token
Head to your account page and generate a Bearer token to authenticate your requests.
Query the API
Access real-time snapshots or query years of historical archives across all transport modes.
Built in the open
MobilityTwin.Brussels is a collaborative research project from ULB. Contribute data sources, improve quality, or build new data products.
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Cite this platform
If you use the platform or the data provided by the platform in one of your projects, please cite the paper below:
@article{merten_sakr_mobilitytwin_2023,
title = {Brussels Mobility Twin (Data and Resources Paper)},
author = {Gaspard Merten and Mahmoud Sakr},
booktitle = {The 31st ACM International Conference on Advances in
Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL '23)},
year = {2023},
address = {Hamburg, Germany},
publisher = {ACM},
doi = {10.1145/3589132.3625634}
}