unhabitat.urban.transport_access
Retrieve city-level data on the proportion of urban population with convenient access to public transport (SDG indicator 11.2.1). Covers 1,555 cities across all world regions from the UN-Habitat Urban Indicators Database. Filter by country, city name, or UN region. Returns access percentage and e...
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What unhabitat.urban.transport_access does on Apibase
AI agents call unhabitat.urban.transport_access to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
city | string | — | Filter by city name (partial match, e.g. "Nairobi", "Lagos", "Mumbai"). Case-insensitive. |
limit | integer | — | Maximum number of cities to return (1–100, default 50). |
region | string | — | Filter by UN-Habitat region (partial match). Regions include "Sub-Saharan Africa", "Northern America and Europe", "Eastern and South-Eastern Asia", "Central and |
country | string | — | Filter by country name (partial match, e.g. "Kenya", "United States", "Brazil"). Case-insensitive. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why unhabitat.urban.transport_access is rated Low
Tool queries UN-Habitat database for public transit access statistics; no side effects or data modification.
From the tool's definition Retrieve city-level data on proportion of urban population with convenient access to public transport
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The rule that runs unhabitat.urban.transport_access safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For unhabitat.urban.transport_access, this is the rule to start with:
unhabitat.urban.transport_access is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every unhabitat.urban.transport_access call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about unhabitat.urban.transport_access
Retrieve city-level data on the proportion of urban population with convenient access to public transport (SDG indicator 11.2.1). Covers 1,555 cities across all world regions from the UN-Habitat Urban Indicators Database. Filter by country, city name, or UN region. Returns access percentage and estimate source per city. Useful for urban mobility analysis, SDG 11 reporting, and comparing public transit equity across cities. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
unhabitat.urban.transport_access accepts 4 parameters: city, limit, region, country. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for unhabitat.urban.transport_access: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Apibase. Nothing to install.
unhabitat.urban.transport_access is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the unhabitat.urban.transport_access rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for unhabitat.urban.transport_access. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
unhabitat.urban.transport_access is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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