Adopt additional parking facilities information
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Yes. As more mobility providers add infrastructure in the ROW, the City of Minneapolis has been having challenges understanding where parking facilities are located and what their different features are.
We'd like mobility operators to regularly report where their parking facilities are so we can know where they are, what features/amenties they have and to be able to direct riders to those locations and create optional or required parking zones. The City would also share its parking infrastructure as well.
Additionally, as we add more and different parking facilities; racks, docks, hangars, etc. with various features; power, security, etc. we need to better track what capabilities and capacities these new facilities have for residents & users.
Describe the solution you'd like
We would like to add data fields and new variables that can capture the different data necessary to map and understand their locations and different features.
Is this a breaking change
- I'm not sure
Impacted Spec
For which spec is this feature being requested?
agencyprovider
Describe alternatives you've considered
Receiving regular reports or maps from individual providers.
Additional context
Here are the fields and variables we've come up with to start. We've grouped them under Station Information, Station Location, Station Status, and Station Features to start. Some of these fields are included, but I wanted a full list to start.
Station Information
Station ID:
Name:
Operator:
Station type
- Dock
- Rack
- Hitch
- E-Station
- Virtual Corral
- Valet Zone
- Locker
- Enclosed Facility
Secure
- True
- False
Permit #:
Contact info:
Station Usage (who can use it)
- Public (anyone)
- Private (only their customers)
Rental methods
- key (operator issued vehicle key / fob / card)
- Credit card
- Pay pass
- Apple pay
- Android pay
- Transit card
- Account number
- Phone
Station Location
- Latitude
- Longitude
Address:
Cross-street:
Property Owner
- City
- County
- State
- Federal
- Tribal
- University
- Park Board/District
- Private
- Other
Station Attached (is it attached in the ground or not)
- None
- Permanently affixed
- Temporarily affixed
Ground type
- Turf
- Dirt
- Brick
- Concrete
- Pavers
- Specialty Surface
- Other
Location Type
- On-street metered
- On-street non-metered
- Off-street parking lot
- Underground parking
- Sidewalk/Furnishing zone
- Other
Station Status
Is Installed
- True
- False
Is Renting
- True
- False
Is Returning
- True
- False
Is stored in place (for seasonal removals)
- True
- False
Hours of operation:
Capacity
- Number of total places per vehicle type
Station Features
Electrified
- True
- False
Charging Capacity
- Number of total places per vehicle type
Vehicle types it can serve
- Scooter
- Bike
- E-bike
- Cargo bike
- E-cargo bike
- Moped
- Other
Vehicle types it can charge by vehicle type (or connector types)
Thanks Russ the details you provided in this issue are great.
It's an interesting idea. It seems we would need to allow:
- cities to publish this through Policy (which is part of Stops, but with not as many fields as you are suggesting), and
- allow operators to publish as well (which we don't have now, mostly because it's usually the cities who are the authority on this on stations in the right of way).
GBFS does have a way to for operators to publish, which has good information, but not all the fields you list:
https://github.com/MobilityData/gbfs/blob/master/gbfs.md#station_informationjson
Some of your ideas overlap with ways of defining things at the curb with the CDS, and something we are thinking of expanding in the next release (like other curb area adjacent elements that facilitate or impede curb transactions: trees, utility box, bench, ramp, art, bike rack, planter, meter pay stations, signal cabinets, scooter parking. Specific focus on EV Charging in spec - status Active/Charging/Inactive, reliability, uptime).
So now others can chime in here, and the steering committee can look at this to bring to a future working group meeting as a topic too.