Case Study: Samtrafiken improves transit innovation and API management with Apigee

Samtrafiken Transforming the Swedish transportation industry with help from APIs

Samtrafiken, a Swedish non-profit coordinating national public transportation, faced challenges when third-party developers created popular but unreliable mobile apps by screen-scraping its data. This led to user complaints and system instability. To address this, they partnered with Apigee to implement a new open data strategy.

Using the Apigee platform to manage and open its APIs, Samtrafiken launched the Trafiklab initiative. This allowed developers to build apps with accurate, official data. The solution made Samtrafiken more resilient to shifts in user behavior and fostered innovation. Apigee's platform remains the main gateway for nearly all API activity, with over half of Stockholm's transit API requests now coming from third-party services.

Samtrafiken

Elias Arnestrand

Innovation Manager