Feature modes passenger services

[schnuerle]

Explain pull request

Work on passenger services to incorporate into Modes

Is this a breaking change

• Yes, breaking

Impacted Spec

Which spec(s) will this pull request impact?

• agency
• policy
• provider

Additional context

Working document to synthesize level data US cities are already getting from ride hail companies:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OV6MiH0bZSF_jswCNwObKwXO-PYdr_uWxf3no27Slk4/edit#

[schnuerle]

The Institute for Transportation Studies at University of California has done this interesting study on Sharing Mobility Data for Planning and Policy Research from 2020, which includes some charts of "Mobility Data Sharing Specifications" (not to be confused with MDS) fields and data asked for ad-hoc from 6 cities like (Table 2, page 8).

Table 3, page 11 also specifies "Sufficiency of Data Specification for Analyses" for different use cases like regulatory compliance, curb management, labor, congestion pricing, safety records, TNC vehicle electrification/EV, speed violations, transit ridership, modal comparison, etc.

https://escholarship.org/content/qt88p873g4/qt88p873g4.pdf?t=q5ng1u

[schnuerle]

This will be a topic at July 21's working group meeting, specifically Passenger Services Data Field Mapping, field difficulty classification, and some use case documentation.

[marie-x]

Working document to cogitate, coalesce and collate:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OV6MiH0bZSF_jswCNwObKwXO-PYdr_uWxf3no27Slk4/edit#

Reviewed at MDS WG 21 Jul 22

[schnuerle]

Austin, TX collects trip-level data for it's Ride Austin program including ids for passengers and drivers, start and end locations and times, etc. Details of the data and analysis of deadheading can be found in this University of Texas study and some open data here.

[schnuerle]

We will be having a big deep dive on the work to consolidate all of your comments, data, use cases, and feedback at this week's working group meeting. Please attend!

https://github.com/openmobilityfoundation/mobility-data-specification/wiki/Web-conference-notes,-2022.09.01-(MDS-Working-Group)

Here is the current draft of the mode in the feature branch for this PR:

https://github.com/openmobilityfoundation/mobility-data-specification/blob/feature-modes-passenger-services/modes/passenger-services.md#fare-attributes

[schnuerle]

I think this is at a good enough point where it can be merged back into the feature-modes branch, so that the next mode can take advantage of the work and formatting here. I'm going to do that tomorrow unless there are objections.