Transport for London MCP connector
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Transport for London is the unified API providing realtime and status information across the city's transport network, covering roads, bike points, and journey planning. The Transport for London MCP connector allows AI agents to retrieve accident statistics, air quality data, and bike point locations and availability, as well as plan journeys using various transport modes. It also supports searching for bike stations by name, accessing taxi and minicab contact information, and querying disruption categories and journey planner modes across the network.
Authentication type
- API Key - Requires a static API key to be configured before the agent can connect to the service.
Uses
Use the Transport for London MCP connector to perform the following actions:
- Monitor live line status across the Underground, buses, and other transport modes
- Plan journeys across London using real-time transport data
- Track bike point availability to find bikes or docking stations nearby
- Check air quality data to inform travel and health decisions
- Review historical accident data to assess road safety trends
- Get taxi and minicab contact details for booking transport
- Identify disruptions affecting specific lines or transport modes
- Retrieve timetables and stop sequences for planning transit operations
Example prompts
Use the following example prompts to invoke Transport for London MCP connector tools from your AI assistant or Boomi Connect workflow:
What's the current status of the Central line in London?Find bike points near King's Cross station.Show me today's air quality readings for London.Plan a journey from Paddington to Canary Wharf.List all disruptions affecting the Piccadilly line right now.Give me the contact number for a licensed London taxi.How many bikes are available at the Soho Square bike point?Show accident data for London in 2022.What are the valid severity codes for line status updates?Get the timetable for Victoria station on the Victoria line.
Transport for London MCP connector tools
The Transport for London MCP connector provides the following tools. Each tool maps to a specific action you can invoke from your AI agent or automation.
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| AccidentStats_Get | Gets all accident details for accidents occuring in the specified year |
| AirQuality_Get | Gets air quality data feed |
| BikePoint_GetAll | Gets all bike point locations. |
| BikePoint_Search | Search for bike stations by their name, a bike point's name often contains information about the name of the street or n... |
| BikePoint_Get | Gets the bike point with the given id. |
| Cabwise_Get | Gets taxis and minicabs contact information |
| Journey_JourneyResults | Perform a Journey Planner search from the parameters specified in simple types |
| Journey_Meta | Gets a list of all of the available journey planner modes |
| Line_MetaDisruptionCategories | Gets a list of valid disruption categories |
| Line_MetaModes | Gets a list of valid modes |
| Line_MetaServiceTypes | Gets a list of valid ServiceTypes to filter on |
| Line_MetaSeverity | Gets a list of valid severity codes |
| Line_GetByMode | Gets lines that serve the given modes. |
| Line_DisruptionByMode | Get disruptions for all lines of the given modes. |
| Line_RouteByMode | Gets all lines and their valid routes for given modes, including the name and id of the originating and terminating stop... |
| Line_StatusByMode | Gets the line status of for all lines for the given modes |
| Line_Route | Get all valid routes for all lines, including the name and id of the originating and terminating stops for each route. |
| Line_Search | Search for lines or routes matching the query string |
| Line_StatusBySeverity | Gets the line status for all lines with a given severity A list of valid severity codes can be obtained from a call to L... |
| Line_Get | Gets lines that match the specified line ids. |
| Line_Arrivals | Get the list of arrival predictions for given line ids based at the given stop |
| Line_Disruption | Get disruptions for the given line ids |
| Line_LineRoutesByIds | Get all valid routes for given line ids, including the name and id of the originating and terminating stops for each rou... |
| Line_StatusByIds | Gets the line status of for given line ids e.g Minor Delays |
| Line_Status | Gets the line status for given line ids during the provided dates e.g Minor Delays |
| Line_RouteSequence | Gets all valid routes for given line id, including the sequence of stops on each route. |
| Line_StopPoints | Gets a list of the stations that serve the given line id |
| Line_Timetable | Gets the timetable for a specified station on the give line |
| Line_TimetableTo | Gets the timetable for a specified station on the give line with specified destination |
| Mode_GetActiveServiceTypes | Returns the service type active for a mode. |
| Mode_Arrivals | Gets the next arrival predictions for all stops of a given mode |
| Occupancy_GetBikePointsOccupancies | Get the occupancy for bike points. |
| getOccupancyCarpark | Gets the occupancy for all car parks that have occupancy data |
| Occupancy_Get | Gets the occupancy for a car park with a given id |
| Occupancy_GetAllChargeConnectorStatus | Gets the occupancy for all charge connectors |
| Occupancy_GetChargeConnectorStatus | Gets the occupancy for a charge connectors with a given id (sourceSystemPlaceId) |
| Place_GetByGeo | Gets the places that lie within a geographic region. |
| Place_GetStreetsByPostCode | Gets the set of streets associated with a post code. |
| Place_MetaCategories | Gets a list of all of the available place property categories and keys. |
| Place_MetaPlaceTypes | Gets a list of the available types of Place. |
| Place_Search | Gets all places that matches the given query |
| Place_GetByType | Gets all places of a given type |
| Place_Get | Gets the place with the given id. |
| Place_GetAt | Gets any places of the given type whose geography intersects the given latitude and longitude. |
| Place_GetOverlay | Gets the place overlay for a given set of co-ordinates and a given width/height. |
| Road_Get | Gets all roads managed by TfL |
| Road_MetaCategories | Gets a list of valid RoadDisruption categories |
| Road_MetaSeverities | Gets a list of valid RoadDisruption severity codes |
| Road_DisruptionById | Gets a list of active disruptions filtered by disruption Ids. |
| Road_DisruptedStreets | Gets a list of disrupted streets. |
| getRoad | Gets the road with the specified id (e.g. |
| Road_Disruption | Get active disruptions, filtered by road ids |
| Road_Status | Gets the specified roads with the status aggregated over the date range specified, or now until the end of today if no d... |
| Search_Get | Search the site for occurrences of the query string. |
| Search_BusSchedules | Searches the bus schedules folder on S3 for a given bus number. |
| Search_MetaCategories | Gets the available search categories. |
| Search_MetaSearchProviders | Gets the available searchProvider names. |
| Search_MetaSorts | Gets the available sorting options. |
| StopPoint_GetByGeoPoint | Gets a list of StopPoints within {radius} by the specified criteria |
| StopPoint_MetaCategories | Gets the list of available StopPoint additional information categories |
| StopPoint_MetaModes | Gets the list of available StopPoint modes |
| StopPoint_MetaStopTypes | Gets the list of available StopPoint types |
| StopPoint_GetByMode | Gets a list of StopPoints filtered by the modes available at that StopPoint. |
| StopPoint_DisruptionByMode | Gets a distinct list of disrupted stop points for the given modes |
| getStoppointSearch | Search StopPoints by their common name, or their 5-digit Countdown Bus Stop Code. |
| StopPoint_Search | Search StopPoints by their common name, or their 5-digit Countdown Bus Stop Code. |
| StopPoint_GetServiceTypes | Gets the service types for a given stoppoint |
| StopPoint_GetBySms | Gets a StopPoint for a given sms code. |
| StopPoint_GetByType | Gets all stop points of a given type |
| StopPoint_GetByTypeWithPagination | Gets all the stop points of given type(s) with a page number |
| StopPoint_Get | Gets a list of StopPoints corresponding to the given list of stop ids. |
| StopPoint_Disruption | Gets all disruptions for the specified StopPointId, plus disruptions for any child Naptan records it may have. |
| StopPoint_ArrivalDepartures | Gets the list of arrival and departure predictions for the given stop point id (overground, Elizabeth line and thameslin... |
| StopPoint_Arrivals | Gets the list of arrival predictions for the given stop point id |
| StopPoint_ReachableFrom | Gets Stopoints that are reachable from a station/line combination. |
| StopPoint_Crowding | Gets all the Crowding data (static) for the StopPointId, plus crowding data for a given line and optionally a particular... |
| StopPoint_Direction | Returns the canonical direction, "inbound" or "outbound", for a given pair of stop point Ids in the direction from -> to... |
| StopPoint_Route | Returns the route sections for all the lines that service the given stop point ids |
| getStoppointPlacetypes | Get a list of places corresponding to a given id and place types. |
| StopPoint_GetCarParksById | Get car parks corresponding to the given stop point id. |
| StopPoint_GetTaxiRanksByIds | Gets a list of taxi ranks corresponding to the given stop point id. |
| TravelTime_GetCompareOverlay | Gets the TravelTime overlay. |
| TravelTime_GetOverlay | Gets the TravelTime overlay. |
| Vehicle_Get | Gets the predictions for a given list of vehicle Id's. |
