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Documentation for the General Bikeshare Feed Specification, a standardized data feed for shared mobility system availability. Maintained by MobilityData
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What about trip data feeds? #47

Closed tedder closed 5 years ago

tedder commented 8 years ago

There's a lot of 'pre-trip' data (station availability, etc) but nothing about the public trip data. These are provided in a variety of formats, but it'd be nice to have them included in the GBFS and systems.csv so they are discoverable. Perhaps it's more complicated than the normal name/url in a gbfs.json (for instance, daily/weekly files, zip/csv/json, anonymized), but starting to normalize/enumerate these would be helpful.

Some examples:

serialc commented 8 years ago

While practical for those interested in analyzing trips, the purpose of GBFS feed is to better serve customers by allowing a variety of apps and transportation systems to get the present state of bicycle sharing systems.

See the introduction:

This specification has been designed with the following concepts in mind:

  • Provide the status of the system at this moment
  • Do not provide information whose primary purpose is historical

Historical data, including station details and ride data is to be provided by a more compact specification designed specifically for such archival purposes. The data in the specification contained in this document is intended for consumption by clients intending to provide real-time (or semi-real-time) transit advice and is designed as such.

If you're interested in looking for data you can check out (and participate) in a list of data I curate as part of my PhD research: https://bikeshare-research.org/

There's also an API so you can see all the data links provided - just search for the ltype values of 'data' in the following query: https://bikeshare-research.org/api/v1/categories/links/fields/ltype,linkurl

christrillium commented 5 years ago

Hey @tedder thanks for your inquiry, and thank you @serialc for you helpful description. To further the goals of NABSA's 2019 GBFS upgrade, I've included serialc's BSS research in micromobility-tools-and resources. serialc if you have any requests or suggests regarding this inclusion please let me know.

Unless either of you have any objections I'd like to close this issue.