Web conference notes, 2025.01.16 (MDS Working Group)

MDS Working Group

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Agenda

Defining the Right of Way

Existing data standards – including the Curb Data Specification and Mobility Data Specification – are paving the way for smarter cities. From more effective curb management to adopting new mobility services, public agencies use these tools to create more dynamic, data-driven policies. Yet, many seek to more fully digitize the right-of-way to meet critical goals around safety, sustainability, equity, and accessibility. We’ll identify shared priorities and craft recommendations to advance cross-sector collaboration and refine data standards for the digital public realm.

1. Intro and announcements (10 min)
2. Defining the Right of Way (20 mins)
   1. Overview
   2. INRIX
   3. DDOT
   4. Philadelphia
3. Discussion (20 mins)

WGSC Meeting Organizers

• Host: Pierre Bouffort, Blue Systems
• Facilitator: Michael Schnuerle, OMF
• Preparation: Michael Schnuerle, OMF
• Outreach: Michael Schnuerle, OMF
• Note taker: TBD

Action Items and Decisions

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Minutes

• 51 Attendees
• OMF Slides
• Recording - Password WP0=1*Y!

Notes

OMF WG Meeting Jan 16 Right of Way

Annoucements

• OMF Technology Council Election open now
• MDS WGSC nominations coming soon
• OMF Conferences
  • CoMotion - Miami - April
  • Curbivore - LA - April
  • NACTO - DC - May
  • POLIS Leadership Summit - Rome - May
  • IPMI - Louisville - June
• OMF All member meetings Feb 5

Right of Way

• Existing data standards – including the Curb Data Specification and Mobility Data Specification – are paving the way for smarter cities.
• From more effective curb management to adopting new mobility services, public agencies use these tools to create more dynamic, data-driven policies.
• Many seek to more fully digitize the right-of-way to meet critical goals around safety, sustainability, equity, and accessibility.
• Today we will identify shared priorities and craft recommendations to advance cross-sector collaboration and refine data standards for the digital public realm.

INRIX

• Micromobility and MDS used for GPS location of vehicles and policy in the ROW and beyond
• CDS rules are asset based, not GPS based per se
• Some edge cases where MDS and CDS don’t work 100%
  • You want to designate a slow street, but allow scooters to cross full speed at intersections
  • bollards that allow some to enter the street, but not others
  • Open or closed for parts of segments, one way, one direction, or one lane
• Working on digitizing the full right of way with Philadelphia, construction, road closures
• operators: who will consume the data and how? AVs, freight, mapping companies,

DC DDOT

• Been on linear referencing for a long time as a state and city, plus centerlines
• Digitizing assets like signs, road design (like Road Rules), every lane and config (Remix)
• How to keep a workflow to feed external changes back into city LR system
• 2D sidewalk assets are needed, straight lines now, need polygons
• Special events: every Nationals game day, send to providers as PDF, planned events
  • Includes no turn movements (can’t do with MDS)
  • Needs to be real time: longer or shifted or cancelled (can use MDS Policy)
  • Emergent events like Seattle and 911 CAD and MDS Policy, vs twitter account from police. Protests

Philadelphia

• Need more granular data for a lot: user experience, supply and demand, traffic safety, policy decisions, new technology needed (like MDS/CDS, etc)
• Smart loading zones pilot outcomes - poly granular curb assets and activity and curb space digitally. Pivot to curb space management
• Pivots from smart loading zones:
  • From loading zone user, to right of way user
  • Compliance must be ubiquitous (full ROW) and incentives, enforcements, automation of enforcement
  • CDS and MDS must be expanded to cover whole ROW
• Integrations:
  • Digital ROW Inventory and Management -> [MDS/CDS/xDS]
  • [MDS/CDS/xDS] -> streets planning and ops like esri, city works
  • [MDS/CDS/xDS] -> Open apis, google, Apple Maps
  • [MDS/CDS/xDS] -> digital signage
  • Partners like oMF, Arcadis, CurbIQ, INRIX, LYT
• Spacial granularity - dynamic pricing, space and time data
  • Currently at center line, large polygon areas in the ROW
  • But people want space level and curb access level
• Arcadis helping to institutionalize all this, future work timeline:
  • ROW Existing Conditions and Analysis Report
  • Collection & Digitization for Missing ROW Data Topology
  • Defining a Comprehensive ROW Data Topology
  • Population of Data Topology with all ROW Data
  • ROW Data Processes: Existing Conditions and Recommendations Analysis and Report
• INRIX helping to institutionalize all this, future work timeline:
  • Curb Analytics Access for City and [CDS/MDS?] API Deployment
  • Right of Way Manager (Road Rules)
  • Integration of ROW assets (read: the stuff besides the curb) into Right of Way Manager
  • Delivery of Comprehensive Pilot Data and Report

MDS 2.1 Release plan

• Things that affect the ROW: AVs, real time policy, unplanned stopping, crash and incidents, car share, Alignment with Specs like CDS and MDS across specs

• MDS 2.1 Release Plan page

MDS and CDS current discussions

MDS (tracks vehicles in full ROW) and CDS (rules and activity at a location).

• MDS connection open Issue #731 - connect Trips/Stops to CDS Zones
• CDS connection open Issue #17 - connect Zones to MDS Trips/Stops
• Related open issues:
  • Additional parking facilities (on street, off street, lots, garages, underground, sidewalk) #818
  • Crash, stopping, incidents in ROW #613
  • Travel lanes and blocked lanes CDS #149
  • Curb objects in and around curbs and on sidewalks, EV Charging, CDS #123
  • New modes like fixed route transit, urban air, drones, fleets, all delivery
• Future ideas like intersections, street lane definitions, sidewalks, etc

**Discussion Questions **

1. What digital policies do cities want to implement in the public right-of-way?

2. What do digital policy consumers (i.e. mobility service providers, curb users, etc.) need to leverage this information?

3. What are the technical solutions used to address city use cases and what limitations are there?

4. How can OMF align public and private sector priorities to ensure equitable outcomes?