check_autobahn_traffic
Read-onlyIdempotent
Per motorway (≤ 5), or one Bundesland's motorways with land: an Ampel, then jams, closures, roadworks in force, with place/delay/speed/map. Use when asked about a named motorway now: frei/clear (Ampel), Stau, delay, how it looks, or a LIST of closures; name every motorway (Munich→Berlin: A9). Do NOT use for open/closed/gesperrt/passable, even now, a closure with no time word or a later one (tonight, weekend), or a town, no motorway — check_road_status; Baustellen dated or geplant — find_roadworks_ahead; a named city street: not held; trains (get_train_departures). ~5 min old. Show attribution.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| lat | No | Latitude in WGS 84, e.g. 48.137. Use with lon when the caller already holds coordinates; otherwise use place. | |
| lon | No | Longitude in WGS 84, e.g. 11.576. Use with lat; otherwise use place. | |
| land | No | Optional, instead of roads: one Bundesland, and the answer is the motorways of the whole Land as its page shows them — counts, the longest jams, each motorway with something in force. Use it instead of roads and place when the question names a Land ("Stau in Bayern?", "Autobahnen in NRW"). For Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen only when the question names the Land; a city's traffic is check_road_status. Not with roads, place, lat/lon or radius_km. | |
| kinds | No | Which event kinds to return: warning = live traffic (jams, slow traffic, hazards), closure = full closures, roadworks = construction sites. Set it when the SUBJECT of the question is one of those categories by name: "Baustellen auf der A8?" is ["roadworks"], "welche Sperrungen sind in diesem Moment gemeldet?" is ["closure"]. Omit it when the question is how the road IS — Stau, frei, a delay, "wie sieht es aus", "everything"; the German "Stau?" is the idiom for the whole picture, and a filter nobody asked for hides the closure on the same stretch. Whether a closure question is this tool's at all is decided by two things, and the noun (Sperrung, Vollsperrung, closure) is neither. FIRST THE CLOCK: only a question about this minute (jetzt, gerade, in diesem Moment, right now, at this very minute) can be this tool's — with no time word at all, or for a later window (tonight, heute Abend, am Wochenende, the coming days), it is check_road_status. SECOND, WHAT IS ASKED, which the clock cannot see: what is REPORTED or in force on a named motorway is this tool ("which closures are in force on the A100 at this very minute?"), while whether the road is OPEN or passable is check_road_status AT ANY CLOCK — "ist die A8 offen", "ist die A3 in diesem Moment gesperrt?", "komme ich da durch?" — and so is a closure asked around a town instead of on a motorway number. Baustellen with a date or the word geplant are find_roadworks_ahead. Default: all three. | |
| limit | No | Maximum events to return across all roads (1–50, default 10). Each road's most important item comes first, in the order you listed the roads, so every road with something in force is on the first page when limit is at least the number of roads; after that jams, then closures, other reports, then roadworks, the roads taking turns within each. Only what is in force now is listed — closures announced for later are counted apart in the headline. | |
| place | No | Optional: the town, junction or address the person is at or asks about ("A1 bei Köln", "A3 near Frankfurt"). Then each road's events within radius_km come first, nearest first, and the headline counts them with the road-wide total beside it. Omit it for the whole road. Given with lat+lon, lat+lon is searched around and the place is its label, unless the two lie further apart than radius_km. | |
| roads | No | Autobahn numbers, e.g. ["A9"] or ["A8", "A99", "A9"] (1–5 per call). Name every motorway on the route so the whole drive is briefed in one call — "A9", "A 9" and "a9" are the same road. Results are grouped per road, in the order you list them. Give roads or land, not both. | |
| cursor | No | Pagination cursor from a previous result's _meta.nextCursor. Omit for the first page. | |
| language | No | Set this on every call to the language the person is writing in: "en" if they wrote English, "de" if they wrote German. Do not leave it out: it defaults to German ("de"), which is only the fallback when the language is genuinely unclear, so an English question sent without it is answered in German — a wrong answer. Place names, station names and road numbers are never translated in either language; in English the German term is kept in parentheses so the person recognises it on signs and in local apps. | de |
| radius_km | No | Radius around place or lat+lon in km (1–100, default 25). Ignored without a place. |