Travel Impact Model API

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• The Travel Impact Model API provides estimates of carbon emissions for flights.

• You can query the API using REST and the v1.flights resource.

• Google-provided client libraries are recommended for interacting with the API.

• Alternatively, you can use the provided discovery document and service endpoint for custom integration.

• Emission estimates can be retrieved using the computeFlightEmissions method.

Travel Impact Model API lets you query travel carbon emission estimates.

• REST Resource: v1.flights

Service: travelimpactmodel.googleapis.com

To call this service, we recommend that you use the Google-provided client libraries. If your application needs to use your own libraries to call this service, use the following information when you make the API requests.

Discovery document

A Discovery Document is a machine-readable specification for describing and consuming REST APIs. It is used to build client libraries, IDE plugins, and other tools that interact with Google APIs. One service may provide multiple discovery documents. This service provides the following discovery document:

• https://travelimpactmodel.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1

Service endpoint

A service endpoint is a base URL that specifies the network address of an API service. One service might have multiple service endpoints. This service has the following service endpoint and all URIs below are relative to this service endpoint:

• https://travelimpactmodel.googleapis.com

REST Resource: v1.flights

Methods
computeFlightEmissions	POST /v1/flights:computeFlightEmissions Stateless method to retrieve emission estimates.
computeTypicalFlightEmissions	POST /v1/flights:computeTypicalFlightEmissions Retrieves typical flight emissions estimates between two airports, also known as a market.