Section 03 of 12

Networks

Quavsit launches with eight French networks. Each is exposed under a short slug that prefixes every identifier of that network. What is realtime, what is scheduled, and what is missing depends on what the operator publishes; the table below is the honest inventory, and GET /networks returns the same facts as capabilities.

Launch set#

Slug	Network	City / area	Modes
`tbm`	TBM · Bordeaux Métropole	Bordeaux	tram, bus, ferry
`tisseo`	Tisséo	Toulouse	metro, tram, bus, cable
`idfm`	Île-de-France Mobilités	Paris and Île-de-France	metro, rail, tram, bus
`sncf`	SNCF	France (trains)	rail, coach
`star`	STAR	Rennes	metro, bus
`tam`	TaM	Montpellier	tram, bus
`rla`	Lignes d'Azur	Nice	tram, bus
`ilevia`	Ilévia	Lille	metro, tram, bus

Modes are read from the operator data at refresh time; the column above is indicative.

Capabilities per network#

Slug	Realtime departures	Vehicles	Alerts	Journeys	Shapes
`tbm`	yes (operator feed, GTFS-RT fallback)	`gps`	yes	Quavsit router	yes
`tisseo`	yes (operator feed merged with GTFS-RT)	`estimated`	yes	native (Tisséo planner), Quavsit router as fallback	yes
`idfm`	yes (SIRI Lite stop monitoring, daily budget)	`none`	yes	native (navitia, daily budget, no fallback)	yes
`sncf`	yes (navitia merged with GTFS-RT trip updates)	`none`	yes	native (navitia)	no
`star`	yes (operator feed merged with GTFS-RT)	`gps` (bus only)	yes	Quavsit router	yes
`tam`	yes (GTFS-RT)	`gps`	yes	Quavsit router	yes
`rla`	yes (GTFS-RT)	`gps`	no	Quavsit router	yes
`ilevia`	feed present but carries no delays today, so departures are `scheduled`	`none`	no	Quavsit router	yes

estimated vehicles are placed on the line shape from realtime trip updates, not from GPS; see Concepts. Ilévia realtime will surface automatically the day the operator feed carries delays.

Reading capabilities from the API#

json

{
  "id": "tbm",
  "name": "TBM · Bordeaux Métropole",
  "short_name": "TBM",
  "city": "Bordeaux",
  "region": "Nouvelle-Aquitaine",
  "country": "FR",
  "timezone": "Europe/Paris",
  "bbox": {"min_lon": -0.79, "min_lat": 44.72, "max_lon": -0.42, "max_lat": 44.98},
  "modes": ["tram", "bus", "ferry"],
  "capabilities": {
    "realtime_departures": true,
    "vehicles": "gps",
    "alerts": true,
    "journeys": "quavsit",
    "shapes": true,
    "places": true,
    "streams": true
  },
  "attribution": "Bordeaux Métropole / TBM — Licence Ouverte 2.0",
  "licence": "https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/licence-ouverte-open-licence/",
  "sources": ["gtfs", "tbm:xtradata", "tbm:mecatran"],
  "static_refreshed_at": "2026-09-07T03:12:44+02:00"
}

Illustrative values. capabilities.journeys is native when an operator planner answers, quavsit when the Quavsit router does, and none otherwise; vehicles is gps, estimated or none.

Static data refresh#

Lines, stops, shapes and timetables are re-ingested from the operator every 24 hours at most, and only when the upstream file changed. static_refreshed_at on each network tells you the last successful ingest. A network whose static data has not been ingested yet is still listed with static_refreshed_at: null and answers 503 network_data_unavailable on data endpoints.

Coverage and cross-network endpoints#

Each network has a bounding box. Endpoints without a network in the path (/stops/nearby, /departures/nearby, /vehicles/nearby, /places, /journeys, /alerts) select the networks whose coverage contains the requested point, or the ones you name with networks=. Journeys never cross networks in this version; see Journeys.