Eurostat Road Freight Transport — National Totals, Per Record

Official source. No API key. Pay per record.

This actor turns Eurostat's road freight transport statistics (dataset road_go_ta_tott) into clean, per-record data. Each run reads the figures directly from Eurostat's public JSON-stat dissemination API and delivers one record per observation — the country, the transport type, the transport operation, the unit, the period, and the value, verbatim from the source. These are national statistical totals of goods moved by road (in tonnes and tonne-kilometres). They are aggregate totals, not shipment- or vehicle-level tracking, and nothing is modelled or reinterpreted.

Who buys this and for what job

• Transport economists and logistics analysts comparing national road-freight volumes across EU markets.
• Supply-chain and policy teams feeding official freight totals into models with provenance intact.
• Researchers and journalists who need the exact national tonnage and tonne-km figures.
• Data engineers wanting a keyless, one-call official series for a pipeline.

The job it does: get the official road freight transport series as rows — reliably, with provenance, and without an account or key at the source.

Pricing

Pay per event. One event: a delivered record. Tiered by your Apify plan; the record is delivered before it is charged. No start fee, no subscription. Blocked runs and empty results cost nothing.

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
road_freight_record	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
sinceTimePeriod	string	2024	Earliest period to return. Earlier start = more history and more records.
maxRecords	integer	500	Ceiling on records delivered and billed. The default is a fast bounded sample; raise it to pull the full set.

Both are optional; the default run is a bounded sample that finishes quickly so you can see the shape before scaling up.

Output

One JSON object per observation. Every dimension is emitted as a code and a label, both verbatim from Eurostat; a composite record_id uniquely identifies each row so no two source observations collapse together. Example record from a real run:

{
  "record_id": "A:HIRE:EINTL:MIO_TKM:AT:2024",
  "dataset_code": "road_go_ta_tott",
  "indicator": "Road freight transport",
  "freq": "A",
  "freq_label": "Annual",
  "tra_type": "HIRE",
  "tra_type_label": "Hire or reward",
  "tra_oper": "EINTL",
  "tra_oper_label": "Empty - international transport - total",
  "unit": "MIO_TKM",
  "unit_label": "Million tonne-kilometre (TKM)",
  "geo": "AT",
  "geo_label": "Austria",
  "time": "2024",
  "time_label": "2024",
  "value": 0,
  "obs_status": null,
  "source": "Eurostat",
  "source_dataset": "road_go_ta_tott",
  "licence": "Eurostat, CC BY 4.0. Reformatted from Eurostat JSON-stat; values unmodified. Third-party content and logos excluded. Commercial-barred geographies removed.",
  "attribution": "Source: Eurostat (dataset road_go_ta_tott)",
  "caveat": "National statistical totals of road freight (tonnage and tonne-kilometres) by transport type and operation — these are aggregate totals, not shipment, consignment, or vehicle-level tracking. Values reproduced verbatim.",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-17T00:00:00Z"
}

Every run also writes an unbilled RUN_RECEIPT to the run's key-value store: the robots check, the source URL, how many observations were present, delivered, excluded as missing or as commercial-barred geographies, and whether charged equals delivered.

Cost guidance

One road_freight_record is billed per delivered observation, so cost = records pulled × your plan's per-record price. The full permitted set from 2024 is roughly 5,697 records — about $285 on the Free-plan rate, or about $191 at the Gold-tier rate. A default 500-record sample is about $25 (Free) or $16.75 (Gold). You control volume with sinceTimePeriod and maxRecords.

Honest limitations and caveats

• These are national statistical totals — not shipment, consignment, waybill, or vehicle-level tracking.
• Transport type, operation, and unit (tonnes vs tonne-km) are distinct rows; read those fields before comparing.
• Different from US BTS freight datasets by continent (Europe) and grain (national totals); do not conflate the two.
• Coverage is licence-limited by design. Eurostat permits commercial reuse only for EU, EFTA, and official acceding/candidate countries; geographies outside that set are excluded at ingest and counted in the run receipt. This is a compliance choice, not a data gap.
• Missing observations are excluded, never invented; published zeros are kept as real values.
• Values, units, statuses, and dimension codes are reproduced verbatim — never rescaled, relabelled, or re-derived.

The NexGen Signal family

Part of the NexGen Signal family of official-source, per-record Eurostat products. Its live siblings on the store — all official-source, no API key, values verbatim, pay per record:

• Eurostat House Price Index
• Eurostat Waste Generation
• Eurostat Waste Treatment
• Eurostat Business & Consumer Confidence
• Eurostat Income Distribution (EU-SILC)

Source: Eurostat. Reformatted from the Eurostat JSON-stat dissemination API; values unmodified. Third-party content and logos excluded. Data for geographies outside EU/EFTA/candidate countries is excluded in line with Eurostat's reuse terms.