Integration

National Highways WebTRIS integration

WebTRIS is National Highways' open traffic flow database for England's strategic road network (motorways and major A roads, formerly Highways England). Find traffic count sites by id, type or area, check how complete their data is, and pull daily (15-minute), monthly or annual traffic reports with vehicle volumes, length and speed bands, average speeds and large vehicle shares, going back years. The duplicate date-in-path report route is left out. No authentication: the API is free and open, with no key or registration.

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When this happens, do that in National Highways WebTRIS.Built from the 9 National Highways WebTRIS tools below, on the connection you add once.

What you can do with National Highways WebTRIS

Each of these is one operation on one endpoint, available both as a workflow step and as a tool an AI agent can call on its own. Nothing bundles several operations into one action, so what a run did stays readable afterwards.

Most endpoints run on the free plan. A few, mainly the ones that publish on your behalf, need a paid plan.

Site, 3 operations

get_sites_by_idsGet sites by idsGETGet one or more traffic count sites by id: name, description (road, link and direction), coordinates and active status.
list_sitesList sitesGETList every traffic count site on England's strategic road network (over 20,000 MIDAS, TAME, TMU and legacy sites) with name, description, coordinates and active status.
list_sites_by_typeList sites by typeGETList every count site of one site type, with name, description, coordinates and active status.

Area, 2 operations

get_areaGet areaGETGet one WebTRIS area by its id: name, description and the longitude and latitude of its bounding corners.
list_areasList areasGETList every WebTRIS area (the numbered National Highways operational areas and the DBFO road contracts such as the M25 or the M6 Toll Road) with its name and bounding coordinates.

Daily, 1 operation

get_daily_data_qualityGet daily data qualityGETGet the data quality percentage of one count site for each day of a date range.

Overall, 1 operation

get_overall_data_qualityGet overall data qualityGETGet the overall data quality percentage of one or more count sites over a date range, to judge how complete their traffic counts are before using a report.

Report, 1 operation

get_traffic_reportGet traffic reportGETGet a traffic flow report for one or more count sites over a date range.

Sitetype, 1 operation

list_site_typesList site typesGETList the site types used to classify count sites, such as MIDAS, TAME, TMU and Legacy.

Use National Highways WebTRIS from Claude Code, Cursor or Codex

Connect National Highways WebTRIS in LiveContext, create an API key in Settings, then add the LiveContext MCP server to your client. Its National Highways WebTRIS operations become tools the client can call, next to every other integration you connected.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http livecontext https://livecontext.ai/mcp --header "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Codex (~/.codex/config.toml)

[mcp_servers.livecontext]
url = "https://livecontext.ai/mcp"

[mcp_servers.livecontext.http_headers]
"X-API-Key" = "YOUR_API_KEY"

Cursor, Claude Desktop and other JSON configs

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "livecontext": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://livecontext.ai/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

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How to connect National Highways WebTRIS

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