Working Group Agenda - April 10, 2025 - Vehicle States and Requirements Updates w/ SFMTA

[Michael Schnuerle]

Hello MDS Working Group,

Our next MDS working group meeting is this Thursday, April 10, 2025, at 9 am PT, 12 pm ET, and 6 pm CET.

Topics: Vehicle States and Requirements Updates w/ SFMTA

Meeting Agenda: 

1. Intro and announcements (15 min)
   1. New MDS WGSC members
   2. Feedback on Policy real-time updates in PR #928
2. MDS 2.1 Updates Discussion (40 mins)
   1. Add geographies to be returned in Reports in Requirements #873
   2. Add operations start and end dates to VEHICLES endpoint #899

Agenda and slides

https://github.com/openmobilityfoundation/mobility-data-specification/wiki/Web-conference-notes,-2025.04.10-(MDS-Working-Group)

Call details:

Zoom Registration and Join Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAscOmhpjIuHNakPx6CNbACpjUjw1Gsucr4 

Meeting info is reflected on the OMF public calendar and MDS mailing list.

Thanks,

Michael Schnuerle

Director of Open Source Operations

@MichaelMobility · @OpenMobilityFnd

[Michael Schnuerle]

Hi MDS Working Group,

Thank you for a great meeting, about Vehicle States and Requirements Updates.

Review the recording, notes, slides, and discussions here on the agenda page.

Action Items and Decisions

1. Feedback is needed on Policy real-time updates in PR #928, closing in one week
2. Feedback on tracking vehicle property changes PR #913

Key Points for tracking vehicle property changes, PR 913

• MDS Vehicles is a real time status of vehicles, not a history
• Vehicle property change: when part of a vehicle is changed: accessibility, battery, tires, IoT device, license plate, color, etc (custom for each Mode). Useful for knowing use and rides with certain equipment. This is really what SFMTA wants to see (going to rename Issue/PR). Is this history a new data structure in MDS? Or a new event type in Events with descriptive text?
  • Vehicle lifecycle: when a vehicle was added to service, then finally retired. Useful for carbon footprint discussions, lifetime operations, green goals, etc. Events already has decommissioned state for when it's removed from service.
  • Vehicle maintenance: When vehicles have maintenance done on or off street - already covered in MDS with vehicle states in Events. Last inspection date is in Vehicles now. Some public agencies get this in monthly reports, but MDS should be able to handle this instead.
• Need to hear more from operators, vendors, data aggregators. Comment on GitHub now with challenges or issues.

Thank you and see you next month on May 20.

Thanks,

Michael Schnuerle

Director of Open Source Operations

@MichaelMobility · @OpenMobilityFnd