Navitia API
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For Agents
Plan multimodal journeys, get departures and arrivals, build isochrones, and look up transit lines and disruptions across Navitia coverage regions.
Use for: Plan a public transit journey from Gare du Nord to Charles de Gaulle Airport, Get the next departures from a stop area in Paris, Compute an isochrone showing where I can reach within 30 minutes by transit, List all transit lines on the Île-de-France Navitia coverage
Not supported: Does not handle ride-hailing dispatch, vehicle telemetry, or driving turn-by-turn navigation — use for public transit journey planning, isochrones, departures, and disruptions only.
Navitia is an open multimodal transit API built on top of GTFS and other open transport datasets. It exposes coverage regions, journey planning, isochrones, transit lines, stop areas, real-time departures and arrivals, places search, and disruption feeds for the cities and regions it covers. Authentication uses HTTP Basic with the API key as the username, and responses follow the Navitia v1 hypermedia model.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the Navitia API to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Navitia API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with Navitia API.
Plan a multimodal journey between two points across a Navitia coverage region
Compute an isochrone polygon showing reachable area within a travel-time budget
List the transit lines, stop areas, and places served inside a coverage region
Retrieve real-time departures and arrivals for a stop area on the chosen network
Surface current disruptions affecting routes and stops on a coverage region
Build trip-planning UIs and route widgets that fall back to GTFS-derived data
Use Cases
Patterns agents use Navitia API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Multimodal Journey Planning
Trip-planning apps need a multimodal journey engine that combines walking, public transit, and bike legs across a city. Navitia's /coverage/{region}/journeys endpoint accepts origin and destination coordinates and returns ranked itineraries with leg-level transit information sourced from GTFS feeds. The result is suitable for direct rendering in a journey planner UI.
Call /coverage/fr-idf/journeys with from and to coordinates to return the top 3 ranked itineraries between Gare du Nord and Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Isochrones for Reach Analysis
Property platforms, employer dashboards, and urban-planning tools use isochrones to show areas reachable from a point within a travel-time budget. The /coverage/{region}/isochrones endpoint returns the polygon describing reachable area from the input coordinates, given a maximum duration. Visualising the polygon on top of a map produces a transit accessibility layer in minutes.
Call /coverage/fr-idf/isochrones with the user's home coordinates and max_duration=1800 seconds to return the 30-minute transit reach polygon.
Real-Time Departures and Disruptions
Mobility products need to surface real-time departures and any disruptions affecting a journey. Navitia's /coverage/{region}/stop_areas/{stopAreaId}/departures returns the next scheduled and real-time departures from a stop, while /coverage/{region}/disruptions exposes the current incident feed. Combined, they let an app display 'next train' alongside any service alerts.
For a chosen stop area, call /coverage/fr-idf/stop_areas/{stopAreaId}/departures and /coverage/fr-idf/disruptions, then return the next departures with any active disruptions annotated.
Agent-Driven Transit Assistance via Jentic
Travel and concierge agents need to plan transit journeys for a user without integrating Navitia auth and pagination by hand. Through Jentic the agent searches by intent, loads the schema for the journey or departures operation, and executes it with origin and destination, while Jentic stores the basic auth credentials in its vault. The agent receives a structured itinerary it can summarise to the user.
Search Jentic for 'plan a public transit journey between two coordinates', load the schema for /coverage/{region}/journeys, and execute it with the user's origin and destination.
Key Endpoints
9 endpoints — navitia is an open multimodal transit api built on top of gtfs and other open transport datasets.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
GET
/coverage
List Navitia coverage regions
GET
/coverage/{region}/journeys
Plan a multimodal journey on a coverage region
GET
/coverage/{region}/isochrones
Compute an isochrone polygon for a coverage region
GET
/coverage/{region}/stop_areas
List stop areas on a coverage region
GET
/coverage/{region}/lines
List transit lines on a coverage region
GET
/coverage/{region}/stop_areas/{stopAreaId}/departures
Get next departures from a stop area
GET
/coverage/{region}/disruptions
List current disruptions on a coverage region
GET
/coverage/{region}/places
Search places on a coverage region
GET
/coverage
List Navitia coverage regions
GET
/coverage/{region}/journeys
Plan a multimodal journey on a coverage region
GET
/coverage/{region}/isochrones
Compute an isochrone polygon for a coverage region
GET
/coverage/{region}/stop_areas
List stop areas on a coverage region
GET
/coverage/{region}/lines
List transit lines on a coverage region
GET
/coverage/{region}/stop_areas/{stopAreaId}/departures
Get next departures from a stop area
GET
/coverage/{region}/disruptions
List current disruptions on a coverage region
GET
/coverage/{region}/places
Search places on a coverage region
Why Jentic?
Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.
Credential isolation
The Navitia API key is stored encrypted in the Jentic vault and applied as HTTP Basic auth (key as username, empty password) at execution time. Agents call Navitia operations through Jentic without seeing the raw key.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic by intent (e.g. 'plan a public transit journey between two coordinates') and Jentic returns the matching Navitia operation with its input schema for direct execution.
Time to first call
Direct integration with Navitia: 2-3 days to handle the hypermedia response model, region selection, and basic auth wiring. Through Jentic: under 1 hour — search, load schema, execute.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using Navitia API through Jentic.
What authentication does the Navitia API use?
Navitia uses HTTP Basic authentication where the API key is sent as the basic-auth username with an empty password. Jentic stores the key in its vault and supplies the basic auth header on each request so the agent never sees the raw key.
Can I plan a journey between two coordinates with the Navitia API?
Yes. GET /coverage/{region}/journeys with from and to query parameters expressed as lat;lon (or place IDs) returns ranked multimodal itineraries with leg-level public transport detail.
What are the rate limits for the Navitia API?
Navitia's free tier limits requests per second per token and applies daily caps; commercial plans raise the limits. The OpenAPI spec does not publish exact quotas — review your plan at navitia.io/en/pricing before running batch isochrones or large journey loops.
How do I plan a transit journey through Jentic?
Run pip install jentic, search for 'plan a public transit journey between two coordinates', load the schema for /coverage/{region}/journeys, and execute it with the desired region and from/to parameters. Sign up at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.
Does Navitia cover the United States?
Coverage depends on which GTFS and real-time feeds Navitia ingests for a region. Call /coverage to enumerate the active coverage regions on your account; not all US cities are available, and some regions are read-only or limited to schedules without real-time data.
Does this API include driving directions?
Navitia is focused on multimodal public transport including walking and bike legs. Pure car routing is not Navitia's primary scope; for door-to-door driving directions use a routing engine such as TomTom or HERE.
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