specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
providerId: bureau-of-transportation-statistics
generated: '2026-09-05'
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://data.bts.gov/, https://data.bts.gov/profile/edit/developer_settings,
  https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html, https://geodata.bts.gov/ — searched 2026-09-05
plan_count: 0
description: >-
  THE BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS PUBLISHES NO PLANS AND CHARGES NOTHING. Every
  surface is a public federal open-data API: data.bts.gov (SODA/OData), geodata.bts.gov
  (NTAD geospatial, OGC API) and www.transtats.bts.gov. There is no pricing page, no
  paid tier, no metered quota and no billing relationship of any kind. The only signup is
  a free developer registration at
  https://data.bts.gov/profile/edit/developer_settings which issues an X-App-Token; the
  token is not a licence and buys no quota — it moves the caller out of the shared
  anonymous throttling pool. Data is released as a U.S. Government Work
  (https://www.usa.gov/government-works), free of copyright and free of charge.
plans: []
supersedes:
  note: >-
    This file replaces a 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep scaffold that invented a "Free" tier with a
    1,000 requests/month quota and a 10 requests/minute rate limit. BTS publishes neither
    number; both were placeholder defaults and are removed. See roadmap#35.