GMFS+ | General Mobility Share Feed Specification Plus

This is a proposal based on GBFS+ to extend the principles of GBFS+ to all mobility solutions (bikes, cars, station-based, free floating,...).

Preface

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The standard: GBFS+

1. GBFS ..

2. Deep links, Add rental_url to free bikes and stations ... There is already a change-requests (from others) for an extension of the standard, covering exactly our wishes. So we include request #25 in GBFS+, which enables deep links.

3. Type_of_system ... We will add type_of_system in the “system info” file. Allowed values are [free_floating, station_based, virtual_station_based]

4. Type_of_vehicle ... We add a file “Types_of_bikes” which describes the different bike types (type_id, name, gears, electric, description, img_url) In free-bike-status file we add the field type_of_bike (our first proposal on OpenBikeShare Github)

5. TTL ... The time to live (TTL) for real-time data feeds will be at most 30s, so that traveller has always the most actual information about the availability of bicycles.

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