Stop.rental_methods vs. fare_attributes.payment_type

[thekaveman]

Issue

Stops defines the rental_methods field as follows:

Enum[]: List of payment methods accepted at stop, see GBFS Rental Methods

GBFS Rental Methods as of April 2023 are:

• key
• creditcard
• paypass
• applepay
• androidpay
• transitcard
• accountnumber
• phone

Further, some modes support the fare_attributes.payment_type field, with a different list of options and the the following variation:

	care-share	delivery-robots	passenger-services
cash	x	x	x
credit_card	x		x
mobile	x	x	x
voucher	x	x	x
paratransit		x	x
no payment	x	x	x
test	x	x	x

[schnuerle]

Stops may be a bit of an outlier right now and should just stay aligned with GBFS and reference that externally.

For the modes, I think 1) paratransit needs to be removed from delivery robots, 2) credit_card added to delivery robots.

applepay vs androidpay is too specific a field for us in MDS land I think. But account_number and phone could be added to all modes, and then maybe mobile needs to be called mobile_app for clarity?

What are the values for micromobility?

[thekaveman]

What are the values for micromobility?

The micromobility mode does not use the fare_attributes property of trip: https://github.com/openmobilityfoundation/mobility-data-specification/blob/release-2.0.0/modes/micromobility.md#fare-attributes

Stops may be a bit of an outlier right now and should just stay aligned with GBFS and reference that externally.

Roger 👍 In openmobilityfoundation/mds-openapi#5 I updated the casing to match exactly with GBFS.

For the modes, I think 1) paratransit needs to be removed from delivery robots, 2) credit_card added to delivery robots.

Done in openmobilityfoundation/mds-openapi#5

But account_number and phone could be added to all modes, and then maybe mobile needs to be called mobile_app for clarity?

Happy to do this as well.

[thekaveman]

@schnuerle in thinking about adding phone and changing mobile to mobile_app... It still doesn't seem clear to me, how does phone differ from mobile_app?

[schnuerle]

Phone is when a reservation is made via a phone call, to a phone number. So it's different from a mobile app.

[schnuerle]

Payment types are aligned in this commit. Ready to close this issue when confirmed by @thekaveman.

[thekaveman]

Looks good 👍