Top Features

1. Modes Overhaul: Clear support for many existing and new services, modes, vehicles, and programs
2. Incidents and Crashes: New endpoint to capture crashes and incidents like unplanned stops, remote takeovers, ADS dis/engagement, tip overs, harsh braking/acceleration, near misses, vandalism, and theft
3. Delivery:  Full support for delivery of goods, food, packages, and freight, including sidewalk robots and app/gig deliveries
4. Transit fixed route: Support for bus/shuttle/fixed route/fleets and connecting to GTFS trips, stops, and schedules
5. For-hire Autonomous Vehicles: Clearer that MDS fully supports autonomous for-hire services (robotaxis), both sending and receiving data, and special understanding stopping and operational events
6. Real-time Digital Policy: Better real-time solutions and geofencing down to the second, and a new push option
7. Enforcement and Violations: Understand, record, and connect to reports and resolutions

See our Release Plan for more details and links.

Version

According to our semantic versioning, this is a minor release and includes items that will not break the previous functionality of 2.x.

Features

The 2.1.0 release may include the following features.

General

1. Connections to CDS and other specs with External References #731, PR #946
2. Move 2021 Stops, Metrics, Jurisdiction out of Beta #638, #671, #673

Provider/Agency

1. Add lifecycle operations service start and end to Vehicles #899, PR #931
2. Clarify start, stop, cancel, end events #758
3. Clarify relationship between Vehicles and Vehicles/status #955
4. Multiple /vehicles requests at once #924

New Feature

1. Incident and crash information, both historic and real-time, for all Modes #613, PR #944
   1. Includes enforcement and violation information if relevant

Policy

1. Improved support for real-time Policy for emergency response #906
   1. PR #928
   2. Option to push Policy PR #951
2. Clarify Policy can require Authorization #915, PR #949
3. Rule unit of distance travelled #908, PR #950
4. Add geographies to Policy Requirements #873, PR #930

Passenger Services

1. Clearer support for AV taxis (aka robotaxis) within Passenger Services mode #905
2. Support for busses, commuter shuttles, fixed route operations, fleets #927

Car Share

1. More details in car share mode
   1. New car type field #869
   2. More vehicle attributes #870

Delivery

1. Support for general food, goods, package delivery #957, #959

Modes

1. Clearly defining and expanding scope of modes to various services. Includes new mode names: Micromobility, Passenger, Fleet, and Delivery.

These improvements stem from on-the-ground experience, learnings, and needs of OMF member cities and companies.

Meetings

Full details are in the Working Group Meetings agendas, and topics are listed in the description of each OMF public calendar event.

See a full list of all release meetings.

What's Changed

• Admin patch 2.0.2 dev by @schnuerle in #943
• Externally Reference Overlapping Data Sources (WZDz, CWZ, CDS, MDS, GBFS, GTFS, 311, Police Reports, etc) by @schnuerle in #946
• Add New SFMTA shuttle operators by @MarcusVerdoza in #945
• Add external references to MDS objects by @schnuerle in #952
• Creating an option to Push Policies by @schnuerle in #951
• Adding distance rule types and relevant rule units to policy documentation by @pierre-bouffort in #950
• Add Incidents by @schnuerle in #944
• Update providers.csv with Track My Shuttle by @MarcusVerdoza in #956
• Clarify relationship between /vehicles and /vehicles/status by @jiffyclub in #955
• Update Policy Authorization description to allow authentication by @pierre-bouffort in #949
• Add Greenwheels, update nextbike by @schnuerle in #961
• Add Sixt car-share provider to providers.csv by @bruno-cardenas in #958
• Delivery: Goods, Food, Packages, Freight by @schnuerle in #959
• Moving Metrics, Jurisdictions, Stops, and GDE out of beta by @schnuerle in #964
• Add Getaround car-share provider to providers.csv by @ThomPouillevet in #966
• Add Getaround GBFS link by @ThomPouillevet in #967
• Add service_start and service_end to Vehicle object in Provider and Agency APIs by @Mu-yi-Zhou in #931
• Update Getaround GBFS URL in providers.csv by @ThomPouillevet in #968
• MDS 2.1 Cleanup and prep by @schnuerle in #965
• Vehicle properties and maintenance by @schnuerle in #969
• Update providers.csv with Transwest by @MarcusVerdoza in #970
• Add Drop Mobility to listed providers by @philteigne in #971
• Added DoorDash as a MDS provider by @josephlaidoordash in #976
• Update fare_attributes object for micromobility mode to include rate_id by @mschwartzie in #975
• Update providers.csv with Peak Transit by @MarcusVerdoza in #978
• Feedback and Cleanup ahead of MDS 2.1 release by @schnuerle in #977

New Contributors

• @MarcusVerdoza made their first contribution in #945
• @pierre-bouffort made their first contribution in #950
• @bruno-cardenas made their first contribution in #958
• @ThomPouillevet made their first contribution in #966
• @Mu-yi-Zhou made their first contribution in #931
• @philteigne made their first contribution in #971
• @josephlaidoordash made their first contribution in #976

Full Changelog: 2.0.2...2.1.0