Web conference notes, 2021.12.02 (MDS Working Group)

Web Conference

MDS Working Group

• Every other Thursday at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 6pm CET

Conference Call Info

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Agenda

Main Topics

• Policy in MDS 2.0 (Michael)
  • Update on Policy work for 2.0.
    • Reminder to put your public or private Policy API links here. Call out to Bergen/Nivel and Baltimore/Populus for direct MDS links
    • We will discuss connection ideas to Modes today.
• Continuation of discussion about adding new modes in MDS 2.0 (review before meeting)
  • Draft Extending MDS to New Modes document
  • Discussion and Feedback
  • New: Modes Open Issues document
  • Have a feature branch now and a Pull Request where work can start

Preparatory work

• Policy ideas based on real-world usage

  • See LADOT work to incorporate taxis via a 'modality' option. Updates to existing Rules
    • In Policy API Rules, they add modality, accessibility_options array, and service_type (essentially, if the vehicle is on a trip, is it a luxury, shared, or standard ride - not in spec draft yet)
    • Modality has 'micromobility' and taxi' as options. And this note "Given the nature of the differing operational flows, and need for regulators to capture this information, each modality may have different state machines, and different data requirements throughout MDS."
    • Accessibility Options has one option 'wheelchair_accessible' and note "currently only used by the Taxi mode, and is not used by micromobility".
    • Includes different state machines per mode. Micromobility and Taxi.
    • Taxi gets its own state machine diagram too.
    • What about geographies? Any other rule changes needed?

• Previous WG discussions about modes

  • Web conference, 2021.12.02 - Modes in MDS (today)
  • Web conference, 2021.10.14 - New Modes Discussion, part 2
  • Web conference, 2021.10.07 - New Modes Discussion, part 1
  • Web conference, 2021.07.01 - New Modes Discussion
  • Web conference, 2021.01.28 - Modes, Robots

WGSC Meeting Organizers

• Host: Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Michael Schnuerle
• Facilitator: Sébastien Berthaud, Blue Systems
• Outreach: Michael Schnuerle
• Note taker: TBD

Action Items and Decisions

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