Available traffic options
When you request a route, you can choose how the Routes API uses traffic
data when calculating your route. A traffic model is a way to factor
historical and live traffic conditions into your route generation, and can
affect both which routes you get and how long the estimated travel time is.
Here are the traffic options for a route:
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Last updated 2025-03-01 UTC.
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