No definitely not incompatible but also not a feature of the existing métro.

REM uses term "light metro" which I think is accurate.

Primary distinguishing factor is the regional (not core-adjacent) service area & longer distance between stations. Users experience it as a different type of service.

Disagree, it serves a regional purpose that the métro does not, with branching and a different type of service offering. It's not about jurisdiction, it's about setting expectations for users.

Just like the RER A is not Line 15 of the Paris métro, REM A shouldn't be advertised as part of the métro.

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Indeed we do! More info about how we handle bike routing here: blog.transitapp.com/go-bike/

This is a crossover episode I love. Enjoy Western Mass, Kenny!

No problem. GOFS is intended to give passengers real-time info about services like taxis, ridehail, and on-demand transit, so freight tracking isn't really a use case. Hope this helps!

The spec is agnostic about vehicle type — Sprinter vans are super common for demand-responsive services. I'm curious why you mention tractor-trailers... are those being used for passenger service? I hope not! 🚚

You can read documentation about vehicle_type here 👉 github.com/MobilityData...

The time has come for MobilityData to take the wheel — just like it did with GTFS and GBFS — and for the entire industry to get involved with GOFS.

Curious? Head on over to GOFS.org to get started 🚀

🚕 Now it's time for GOFS. The idea hatched a few years ago at an industry-wide working group: how can we make it easier to show on-demand transit, taxi, paratransit, and ridehail in navigation apps? @transit.app got rolling with a lightweight version, and slowly but surely, more people got involved.

🚲 GBFS was developed by the North American Bikeshare Association, a coalition of cities and bikeshare operators. Over a decade, it's expanded to support all self-serve mobility, like carshare and scooters.

Proud note: @transit.app was the first app to support GBFS 👉 www.bcycle.com/news/2015/12...

🚌 GTFS was developed by Google Maps and TriMet in Portland as a simple way to share transit schedules. Over the past two decades, it's become an open, international standard that powers how everyone rides public transit.

It's worth reading the full story 👉 beyondtransparency.org/part-2/pione...

MobilityData plays an important role, managing communities of software developers and transit experts that have developed around these open data standards, which are themselves the result of collaboration.

For example...

Well, it takes a LOT of collaboration. Between public agencies and private companies. Between customers, and clients, and yes even between competitors.

Orchestrating it all is a non-profit called MobilityData 👉 mobilitydata.org

Basically, these data formats (GTFS, GBFS, GOFS) are the open-source standards that allow different modes of transportation to appear in navigation apps: like Transit, Google Maps or Apple Maps.

Getting around would be a lot harder without them! So how do they even exist?

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