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X-ROAD INSIGHTS · Traffic register
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Register hub · Dec 2025 – May 2026

Estonia's traffic register answers around 0.80 million requests per day — vehicles, owners, driving licences and technical inspections in real time.

The traffic register (Liiklusregister), operated by the Transport Administration (Transpordiamet), holds vehicles, owners, driving licences, tachograph cards and professional-driver training. The largest consumer is the Chamber of Bailiffs — vehicles are attachable assets. The traffic insurance fund, the police (a dedicated pol_ service family for traffic control) and even the island-ferry operator (discounts by vehicle registration) also query it.

Traffic register requests / day
— der gesamten X-Road-Last
Service endpoints
in the liiklusregister subsystem (Transpordiamet)
Avg. latency
ms
across all services — vlaev (vehicle detail) is the slowest

Four thematic clusters

The traffic-register services fall into four clusters — vehicle data (the core), driving licences, exams & professional drivers, and police access. Shares are daily averages over Dec 2025 – May 2026. Each cluster has its own detail page.

Top 20 services in the traffic register

The most-used service endpoints across all four clusters, as requests per day. The cluster pill links to the detail page.

#ServiceClusterCalls / dayAvg ms

Sankey flow: clusters → top consumers

How do the 0.80 M calls/day flow from the service clusters to the 16 largest consumers?

Daily load — when is the traffic register used most?

Morning and afternoon peaks — the rhythm of authorities, insurers and police traffic control.

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Key facts about overall usage

What the aggregate data reveals about Estonia's traffic register.

Pfändung

The bailiff is the main user

With about 391,000 calls per day the Chamber of Bailiffs leads the field — vehicles are attachable assets and the owner is determined live. As with the land register, enforcement is the biggest driver.

Island discount

Island-ferry discount via registration

The saarteLaevPiletSoodust service grants island residents ferry discounts based on their vehicle registration. The ferry operator TS Laevad checks live.

pol_ family

A dedicated service layer for the police

The police do not use the general queries but a dedicated pol_ service family (pol_isikud3, pol_soidukid2, pol_juhtoigus). A separation of administrative routine and operational traffic control.