How to send a request to the Transit Routing API

To send a request to the Public Transit Routing API v8, you need the required request parameters shown in the following table:

Table 1. Required request parameters

Name	Format	Description
Base URL	string, `https://transit.router.hereapi.com`	Production environment
Version	string, `/v8`	The API version to use
Resource	string, `/routes`	The endpoint to access the resource
`origin`	string, `"{lat},{lng}"`	The origin WGS-84 compliant coordinates of the request
`destination`	string, `"{lat},{lng}"`	The destination WGS-84 compliant coordinates of the request

For more information, see how to Calculate a Transit Route.

Notes

The response to the above request delivers the following high-level elements:

metadata – a notices (optional) object with a list of issues related to the response
response – a routes object with a list of sections for each transit route alternative.

For more information on the request parameters, see the Routing section of the Public Transit API Reference