Monthly Digest: 200+ New Feeds, Future Availability, Tokyo Meet Up, etc

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?? GBFS Feeds Added Last Month

• 200+ Dott feeds in Europe, Saudi Arabia and Qatar
• Bizi (docked bikeshare) in Zaragoza, ES and Donkey Republic (dockless bikeshare) in Westhoek, BE
• Veo shared scooters in Washington, DC
• Citiz carsharing in France

? Spec Updates

• Carsharing: Trip planners would like to display the availability of vehicles in the future (#616). Technical discussion continues in #726. Thank you @matt-wirtz!
• Reuser experience: The French National Access Point proposed to add a time limit to load a GBFS feed to improve the reuser experience (#715). Our team will analyze the current feeds to help the discussion. Thank you @AntoineAugusti!
• Fix: We fixed a contradiction between two fields in the station_information file spotted by a community member (#719). Thank you @Yaronn44!

??? Events
Past:

• Feb 7, 2025: We had the pleasure of speaking at the webinar on data sharing organized by AAVP (the French association of public bikeshare stakeholders) for its members. What is the value for the operator of using GBFS? The answer in this deck.

Upcoming:

• Feb 27, 2025: @tzujenchanmbd will be representing MobilityData at the Shared Mobility Data Community meet up in Tokyo. He will be happy to take your questions.

?? User Story
Barcelona's bike parking service, Bicibox, uses GBFS to model the number of remaining spaces at 250+ stations (see feed on AMB). Smart!

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