World Bank Data360 API - Transport Sector Data

Overview

The World Bank Data360 API provides access to development indicators across multiple databases. This directory contains scripts and results from a systematic exploration of transport-related data available through this API.

API Base URL: https://data360api.worldbank.org/data360

Key Findings

Transport in the Data360 Taxonomy

Transport sits under the Infrastructure practice group:

P4: Infrastructure (WB Practice Group)
└── P4_000003: Transport (L1)
    ├── P4_000023: Air Transport
    ├── P4_000025: Green and Inclusive Mobility
    ├── P4_000026: Highway Asset Management and Rural Access
    ├── P4_000027: Maritime Transport and Logistics
    ├── P4_000029: Railways
    ├── P4_000030: Regional Connectivity and Transport Corridors
    ├── P4_000031: Road Safety
    ├── P4_000032: Transport Economics
    └── P4_000033: Urban Mobility

Indicators Summary

By Transport Sub-Topic (topic-tagged only)

Key Databases for Transport

Core Transport Indicators

The most directly useful indicators for transport analysis:

Air Transport

Railways

Roads & Road Safety

Maritime & Ports

Logistics & Connectivity

Climate & Investment

Scripts

scripts/explore.py

Full API exploration: searches 15 transport-related terms, discovers all indicators, extracts topic taxonomy, fetches indicator lists for all databases.

python3 scripts/explore.py

scripts/filter-transport.py

Filters raw exploration results to transport-relevant indicators using both topic tags and keyword matching. Produces transport-summary.json.

python3 scripts/filter-transport.py

scripts/fetch-by-topic.py

Fetches indicators using the Data360 topic filter (most precise method), querying each of the 10 transport sub-topics.

python3 scripts/fetch-by-topic.py

scripts/fetch-data.py

Pull actual data values for indicators. Supports filtering by indicator, database, country, and time range.

# List available core indicators
python3 scripts/fetch-data.py --list

# Fetch all core transport indicators
python3 scripts/fetch-data.py

# Specific indicator for specific countries
python3 scripts/fetch-data.py -i WB_WDI_IS_AIR_PSGR -c GBR,KEN,IND,NGA

# All transport indicators from a database
python3 scripts/fetch-data.py -d UNCTAD_MT --from-year 2015

Output goes to data-pulls/ as both JSON and CSV.

API Reference

Endpoints

Key Parameters for /data360/data

Search (POST /data360/searchv2)

{
  "search": "transport",
  "filter": "series_description/topics/any(t: t/id eq 'P4_000003')",
  "select": "series_description/idno,series_description/name,...",
  "top": 100,
  "skip": 0,
  "count": true
}

Files

Scripts

Results

Secondary (Transport-Adjacent) Datasets

Beyond core transport indicators, 107 curated secondary indicators provide essential context. See SECONDARY.md for full details.