Agenda Oct 23 - Delivery: Goods, Food, Packages, Freight

[Michael Schnuerle]

Hello MDS Working Group,

Our next MDS working group meeting is Thursday, October 23, 2025, at 9 am PT, 12 pm ET, and 6 pm CET.

Topic: Delivery: Goods, Food, Packages, Freight

Agenda

1. Intro and announcements 
2. Support Delivery of goods, food, packages, freight
   1. Discussion area - leave your needs and data requirements now
   2. Led by Boston, with discussion from Portland, Blue Systems, LADOT
   3. Pull Request of suggested changes forthcoming

Agenda and slides

https://github.com/openmobilityfoundation/mobility-data-specification/wiki/Web-conference-notes,-2025.10.23-(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 · @OpenMobility

[Michael Schnuerle]

Thank you all for attending this meeting and having a very lively and robust discussion on the needs for Delivery data and digital policy in MDS from multiple cities, vendors, and operators. 

Here are the slides, recording, notes, action items, links, etc:

https://github.com/openmobilityfoundation/mobility-data-specification/wiki/Web-conference-notes,-2025.10.23-(MDS-Working-Group)#action-items-and-decisions

Action Items:

1. Discussion area, leave your needs and data requirements
1. Are Incidents enough to track "unsafe and illegal operations by delivery drivers - i.e. speeding, illegal turn, double-parking, etc." - may need more incident types, like CDS Enforcements and Violations
2. Clarify that shifts are made up of journeys, journeys made up of trips. Trips could have multiple orders, orders could have multiple packages.
3. Might need an array of package/orders details (delivery type, order_id, costs)
4. Shift_id allows chaining of journeys. Is this the right name (some term bigger than a journey for freight solution), or is there another additional field needed?
5. Digital policy - how does MDS Policy support density? Eg cap on number of vehicles in an area. New policy type needed?
6. Statistical areas - Change to array from string? Is there only one area per event?
7. If you want a statistical area for an end, but lat/lon for a start, how do you account for privacy? What change in spec could support this?

Please leave your thoughts and needs for Delivery in the discussion area, since we want to wrap this up in 2 months for CDS 2.1 release.

Thanks,

Michael Schnuerle

Director of Open Source Operations

@MichaelMobility · @OpenMobility