Web conference notes, 2025.06.05 (MDS Working Group)

MDS Working Group

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Agenda

MDS 2.1 Issues, CDS, AVs, AAM

1. Intro and announcements (5 min)
   1. MDS 2.0.2 Patch Release - release notes
2. MDS 2.1 Issues (50 mins)
   1. CDS Connection #731, external references CDS proposal
   2. AV trip type for testing #905
   3. AV unplanned stopping events - clarification #758 - unplanned stops #905
   4. Advanced Air Mobility #896 - LADOT Update

Next month we will talk about crash data.

WGSC Meeting Organizers

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

Action Items and Decisions

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Minutes

• 49 Attendees
• OMF Slides
• Recording - Password *R!j8ubT

Notes

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Chat

• 00:04:24 Ken Yang: Ken Yang, AECOM (kyang@aecom.com)

• 00:04:25 Mike Manzella: Hi everyone, Mike Manzella - Director of Transportation Planning, City of Jersey City, NJ - happy to listen in!

• 00:04:33 Kristian Sims: Hi! First meeting. Kristian Sims - Columbus, OH

• 00:04:36 ramses madou: Hi all. Ramses Madou here from City of San Jose and Chair of the OMF board. Looking to deepen my understanding of what we are working on at the moment.

• 00:04:55 Chad Agate (Autolane): Hello everyone. First time coming to a meeting, Chad Agate, Autolane. chad@goautolane.com

• 00:05:16 Andrew Glass Hastings (OMF): Hi @Chad Agate (Autolane) - great to see you! Welcome!

• 00:05:28 Andrew Glass Hastings (OMF): @Ramses Madou, San Jose thanks for being here!

• 00:05:30 Michael Schnuerle (OMF): Agenda: https://github.com/openmobilityfoundation/mobility-data-specification/wiki/Web-conference-notes,-2025.06.05-(MDS-Working-Group)

• 00:05:41 Hrishikesh Ballal (Openskies): Hello All, Hrishikesh from Openskies, we work on drone traffic management and interested in AAM

• 00:05:59 Andrew Glass Hastings (OMF): Replying to "Hi everyone, Mike Ma..."

• Welcome Mike - great to have your join! Don’t hesitate to ask any questions!

• 00:06:08 Andrew Glass Hastings (OMF): Replying to "Hi! First meeting. K..."

• Hi Kristian - welcome!!

• 00:06:28 Andrew Glass Hastings (OMF): Replying to "Hello All, Hrishikes..."

• Welcome!

• 00:08:17 Michael Schnuerle (OMF): Patch release notes https://github.com/openmobilityfoundation/mobility-data-specification/releases/tag/2.0.2

• 00:10:49 Michael Schnuerle (OMF): External spec alignment https://github.com/openmobilityfoundation/curb-data-specification/pull/96

• 00:14:10 Michael Schnuerle (OMF): External Reference object https://github.com/openmobilityfoundation/curb-data-specification/blob/79166dec742fe755769626b89592841462c6c8ab/data-types.md

• 00:14:46 Zackary Campos: Reacted to "External Reference o..." with ❤️

• 00:15:51 Michael Schnuerle (OMF): Replying to "External spec alignm..."

• Leave your comments and feedback here on this Issue now or after the call.

• 00:22:20 Andrew Glass Hastings (OMF): @Vladimir Gallegos he/him (LADOT) This is a great use-case for MDS and CDS!

• 00:23:12 Andrew Glass Hastings (OMF): If you aren’t familiar with this project we just started with Seattle to communicate in real-time emergency repose zones via MDS Policy API to AVs, connected fleets, transit, etc

• Blog post: https://sdotblog.seattle.gov/2025/05/28/connected-vehicles-technology-pilot-program/

• Project website: https://www.seattle.gov/transportation/projects-and-programs/programs/digital-conflict-area-awareness-management-program

• 00:24:08 Armand Shahbazian: Reacted to "If you aren’t famili..." with ❤️

• 00:26:50 Michael Schnuerle (OMF): Reacted to "If you aren’t famili..." with ❤️

• 00:29:59 Aylene McCallum (OMF): I really like advancing this idea - it demonstrates how MDS helps with the robust testing process that these vehicles will be going through

• 00:31:43 Michael Schnuerle (OMF): Reacted to "I really like advanc..." with 👍🏼

• 00:33:12 Zackary Campos: Reacted to "If you aren’t famili..." with ❤️

• 00:34:48 Aylene McCallum (OMF): Good point Stephanie

• 00:36:36 Michael Schnuerle (OMF): Incidents https://github.com/openmobilityfoundation/mobility-data-specification/issues/613#issuecomment-2942595074

• 00:38:27 Salvador Gutierrez (LADOT): Reacted to "If you aren’t famili..." with ❤️

• 00:41:45 Aylene McCallum (OMF): What aspects of this need to be standardized and maybe which fields should be prioritized?? This could be a huge improvement / update to MDS and there are so many fields that could be added, so maybe first focus on what to focus on first?

• 00:49:56 Bryan Ovalle (Hello Llama AI): Great insight!

• 00:50:44 Aylene McCallum (OMF): This is definitely going to be hard, fleshing out the right way and the right format for collecting data

• 00:54:48 Alex Demisch (SFMTA): Do we want to separate out into two endpoints: (1)the info that could be reported in real time, e.g., there was an incident in /Events, from (2) things that comes much later after further investigation (whether 12 hours or every month) like type of crash, who was involved, police report ID, into something like the /Reports endpoint?

• 00:54:59 Michael Schnuerle (OMF): Yes maybe that’s a good idea. It could be in those two areas.

• 00:55:18 Aylene McCallum (OMF): Reacted to "Do we want to separa..." with 👍🏻

• 00:56:14 Aylene McCallum (OMF): Replying to "Do we want to separa..."

• Is there a way to have an on/off feature where an agency can identify what fields are required to report (per Stephanie's comments)?

• 00:57:35 Michael Schnuerle (OMF): Replying to "Do we want to separa..."

• Yes this can be done in the MDS Policy Requirements file the city provides.

• 00:57:55 Armand Shahbazian: Apparently City of Redmond, WA received interest from Zipline to do drone delivery - I'm meeting with them in a couple weeks and may have some more to share: Pagliacci Pizza | Elevating Our Game: Sustainable Pagliacci | Pagliacci Pizza

• 00:58:14 Bryan Ovalle (Hello Llama AI): Reacted to "Apparently City of R..." with 👍

• 00:58:48 Michael Schnuerle (OMF): Reacted to "Apparently City of R..." with 👀

• 00:58:49 Aylene McCallum (OMF): Replying to "Apparently City of R..."

• Of course it is a pizza company innovating delivery

• 00:59:02 Aylene McCallum (OMF): Reacted to "Apparently City of R..." with 🍕

• 00:59:49 Armand Shahbazian: Reacted to "Of course it is a pi..." with 😆

• 01:00:04 Aylene McCallum (OMF): Don't forget to add comments / questions / ideas in GitHub and feel free to continue the conversation on the OMF's Slack for OMF members.

• 01:00:51 Chay Mosqueda | WFRC: Thank you!