MobilityData

APTA Mobility Conference 2025
2025-04-06 - 2025-04-09
🇺🇸 Are you heading to Austin for APTA Mobility? 🇨🇱
Don’t miss the chance to connect with Gretchen Newcomb, who will be there representing MobilityData! Whether you want to chat about the future of mobility data or explore collaboration opportunities, she’d love to meet.

MobilityData Members' Exclusive Event
2025-04-02 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Online
🚀 MobilityData Members, Mark Your Calendars! 🚀
Join us on April 2nd at 11 AM EST for an exclusive Members-only online event where we’ll share the latest updates on GTFS, GBFS, and our tools just for you!
What’s on the agenda?
✅ GTFS Fares updates
✅ New Mobility Database features
✅ GTFS Flex in the GTFS Schedule Validator
Plus, some members of our Spec & Development team will be there for a brief Q&A, giving you direct access to ask questions and engage with our experts.
To RSVP or to verify your Membership status, email us at members@mobilitydata.org!

MobilityData Cambridge Coffee
2025-03-26 08:00 - 10:00 (America/Toronto) | 24 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA 02138, 24 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
MobilityData’s Executive Director, Eric Plosky, will be in Harvard Square, and we’d love for you to stop by! Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, industry professional, or just someone who loves talking transportation data and standards, grab a hot beverage and connect with the community.
📍 Capital One Café (Community Room, 24 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA)

[Specifications discussions] GTFS-Fares v2 – Monthly Meeting
2025-03-25 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-02-25 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Online
This meeting is public and designed for the community working with GTFS feeds. The content of this event is technical and not destined for business development.
What
Type of meeting: Technical specifications discussion
Date: 4th Tuesday of the month
Time: 11:00 EST (08:00 PST – 17:00 CET)
Frequency: monthly
Duration: 60 minutes
Language: English
Host: Isabelle de Robert and Tzu-Jen Chan
Why this meeting
Let’s come together to make a real impact on the future of public transportation!
Our regular meetings for the GTFS-Fares v2 extension are an opportunity for us to collaboratively work through open proposals and drive progress forward. Each meeting will have a unique agenda focused on what’s currently being worked on, including updates, discussions on requirements, prioritizing the next steps, and unblocking any obstacles for contributors.
This meeting is open to all; anyone can join even if it’s just to listen.
Expected outcomes
More efficient use of everyone’s precious time and energy.
Greater accountability and follow-through.
Better alignment and understanding of goals and priorities.
Improved collaboration and teamwork.

Transport Ticketing Global
2025-03-04 - 2025-03-05
Heili Toome, Global Engagement Director, and Isabelle de Robert, Regional Director, Europe, will be representing MobilityData at TTG! Book a meeting or attend one of their sessions:
Heili will be hosting a roundtable discussion on Tuesday, March 4 at 16:30: Discoverable traveler data is the backbone of accessible, reliable mobility: Uncovering approaches to standardizing fare and ticketing data to increase ridership
Isabelle will be presenting on Wednesday, March 5 at 11:00: Focusing on ridership and revenue: How GTFS-Fares can help increase transparency and accessibility of public transit options to support greater usage

2024 Annual POLIS Conference
2024-11-27 - 2024-11-28

The 2024 International Mobility Data Summit
2024-10-30 - 2024-10-31 | St-James Theatre, 265 Rue Saint-Jacques, Montreal, Quebec, 265 Rue Saint-Jacques,H2Y 1M6, Canada

EUROPEAN MOBILITY EXPO
2024-10-01 - 2024-10-03
From 1-3 October 2024, public transport and sustainable mobility stakeholders will be getting together in Strasbourg for an exhibition featuring some 250 French and international exhibitors and up to 11,000 participants from all across the mobility sector: manufacturers, ticketing, service management systems, mobility authorities and more.

APTA TRANSform Conference
2024-09-29 - 2024-10-02

2024 CUTA Policy Forum
2024-09-25
Join us for CUTA’s 2024 Policy Forum. We are pleased to provide a platform for some of North America’s leading transit and urban mobility experts to discuss the future of our industry. It is crucial to maintain cross-sector dialogue to keep transit systems running and ready to adapt to change. As the national voice for the Canadian public transit industry, CUTA proudly holds this annual event in our nation’s capital to help advance public transit policy, particularly at the federal level. This year’s event will focus on public transit’s contributions to economic affordability and productivity, regional coordination and integration, and transit’s role in addressing the state of zero-emission transmission readiness across the public transit sector.

InnoTrans 2024
2024-09-24 - 2024-09-27

MOVE America 2024
2024-09-24 - 2024-09-25
MOVE America is the #1 tech mobility event in the Americas, bringing together the people and companies redefining mobility.
MOVE America connects the entire mobility ecosystem, focused on tech, business models and sustainable futures. Leaders and visionaries from across the mobility value chain gather at MOVE for an unparalleled opportunity to learn, innovate, partner and do business.

GTFS-Flex: How to implement it - Asia-Pacific Timezone Edition
2024-09-10 09:00 - 10:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online
🛺 In this online event, the MobilityData team will explain how to implement GTFS-Flex.
After the success of our GTFS-Implementation event in June, we’re offering a second edition of the webinar, but this time in the Asia-Pacific Timezone. The June event brought together organizations from all over the world, many of them completely new to the MobilityData community.
GTFS-Flex has been officially adopted into the specification, with record participation from our key contributors and the community: 46 organizations in 17 countries over 6 continents. We hosted multiple working group meetings and with the support of community contributors, GTFS-Flex has been tested in real-world settings, and then officially adopted in GTFS, after eleven years of development.
We’re excited to offer riders the value of flexible and accessible on-demand transportation with GTFS-Flex thanks to our community and contributors!
Now it’s time to implement GTFS-Flex, let’s discover how!
Join us on Tuesday, September 10th
🇯🇵 8 am Japan Standard Time (JST)
🇦🇺 9 am Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)
If you’re in North America or Europe, the event will be on:
Monday, September 9th, 4 pm 🇨🇦PST or 7 pm 🇺🇸EST.
Tuesday, September 10th, 1 am 🇪🇺CET for night owls 🦉🌙.
Host: Tzu-Jen Chan, GTFS Program Manager, MobilityData
Co-Host: Gretchen Newcomb, Directorm Partnerships North America, MobilityData
Agenda:

Use cases covered by Flex
Who is implementing GTFS-Flex worldwide
Flexible service features
Presentation of free MobilityData resources
How to model use cases with Flex
Q&A

🗺️ What is GTFS-Flex?
Imagine traveling in a new city, and you’d like to reach a rural area that only offers an on-demand bus service. You check your preferred trip planner app and can’t find a viable public transportation option, so you end up renting a car. It would be a shame not to use public transportation when it’s within reach.
Flex is a part of GTFS that allows riders to discover Demand Responsive Transportation Services. This is especially exciting for rural transit providers who can look to start or expand flexible transit services with the confidence that riders can find those services more easily.

World Passenger Festival
2024-06-25 - 2024-06-26

UITP North America Forum 2024
2024-06-23 - 2024-06-26
The UITP North America Forum is an annual conference aimed to offer the North America region UITP’s worldwide resources for global connectivity and knowledge, bringing together the most current information and developments for our urban transit industry. The 7th Edition of UITP North America Forum is an opportunity to bring members from around the world.

Velo-City
2024-06-18 - 2024-06-21

Micromobility Europe - 2024
2024-06-05 - 2024-06-06 | The Kromhouthal, Gedempt Hamerkanaal 231, Amsterdam, North Holland, 1021 KP, Netherlands

GTFS-Flex: it’s adopted, now let’s implement it!
2024-06-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto)
Help riders explore demand-responsive transport:
Learn how to implement GTFS-Flex
June 4th, 2024, 11 am – 12 pm EST

📌 Sign up here! 📌

👋 🚌 In this online event, the MobilityData team will explain how to implement GTFS-Flex.
GTFS-Flex has been officially adopted into the specification, with record participation from our key contributors and the community: 46 organizations in 17 countries over 6 continents. We hosted multiple working group meetings and with the support of community contributors, GTFS-Flex has been tested in real-world settings, and then officially adopted in GTFS, after eleven years of development.
🎉 We’re excited to offer riders the value of flexible and accessible on-demand transportation with GTFS-Flex thanks to our community and contributors!

🛠️ Now it’s time to implement GTFS-Flex, let’s discover how!
Host: Tzu-Jen Chan, Data Analyst, MobilityData
Agenda:

How to model use cases with Flex
Who is implementing GTFS-Flex worldwide
Use cases covered by Flex
Flexible service features
Presentation of free MobilityData resources
Q&A

🧭 What is GTFS-Flex?
Imagine traveling in a new city, and you’d like to reach a rural area that only offers an on-demand bus service. You check your preferred trip planner app and can’t find a viable public transportation option, so you end up renting a car. It would be a shame not to use public transportation when it’s within reach.
Flex is a part of GTFS that allows riders to discover Demand Responsive Transportation Services. This is especially exciting for rural transit providers who can look to start or expand flexible transit services with the confidence that riders can find those services more easily.

Open Source Founders Summit 2024
2024-05-27 09:00 - 2024-05-28 20:00 (America/Toronto) | Le Loft des Écluses, 159 Quai de Valmy, Paris, 75010, France

[Specifications discussions] GTFS-Fares v2 – Monthly meetings
2024-04-02 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-02-27 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-01-23 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Online

🏛️ 🌍 Annual General Assembly - Members' event
2024-03-20 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Toronto)
This event is only for members of MobilityData.
🖍️ If you are not yet a member, sign up now!
🗳️ Four board members will be elected. Send your candidate application before Friday, March 8th!

Type of meeting: Annual General Assembly
Frequency: yearly
Duration: 90 minutes
Language: English

The event is held on Zoom, from 11 am to 12:30 pm EST.

GTFS-Flex working group
2024-01-17 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Toronto)
GTFS-Flex – Working Group Meeting – Implementation & Testing | January 17, 2024 @ 10 AM EST

Sign up here

Topics to discuss in Flex meeting:

Should we include normalization of location_groups in a separate file (similar structure to areas/stop_areas) OR add description in location_groups to coherently capture why different tables share an ID namespace.
Should we rework naming convention of location_groups.txt and locations.geojson

Can’t make the meeting? no problem. Just contact us

GTFS Trip-Modifications - Discussing the Proposal
2024-01-10 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Online
👋 This meeting is intended to facilitate discussions around the GTFS Trip-Modifications proposal by Transit and Swiftly.
Trip-Modifications are modifications done to a trip to modify its shape, remove stops that are not served anymore, and potentially add temporary stops. Trip-Modifications is mainly used in a detour use case.
📝 The topics of discussion are:

GTFS-TripModification vs NewTrips
Stop sequence vs reference with only stop id
Bus bridge proposal
Potential new or experimental fields : last updated timestamp, link with service alerts

🚂 Ideally, we can find consensus on these issues.
🤓 Learn more about GTFS Trip-Modifications by reading the following blog posts:

How Transit and Swiftly put bus detours on the map
How Swiftly and Transit put bus detours on the map

🔔 Join the larger GTFS community on MobilityData’s slack and remain up to date with developments.
Can’t make the meeting? no problem.
Write down your comments and concerns in the GitHub Pull Request. We will also summarize the meeting in the GitHub Pull Request.
or
Contact us at specification@mobilitydata.org

2024 TRB Coffee Meet Up
2024-01-09 12:30 (America/Toronto) | La Colombe DC, 900 6th St NW, Washington, DC, United States
☕ 🗣️ 🚌
We all love to start the year with the classic combo of Transportation Camp and TRB in Washington, DC in early January!
We will host our traditional Coffee Meet Up on Tuesday, January 9th, 2023, from ​​12:30 to 2 pm at La Colombe Coffee (900 6th St NW, Washington, DC, USA). Everyone is welcome to join us!

☕ TRB Coffee Meet Up
⏰ January 9th, 2023, from ​​12:30 to 2 pm
📍La Colombe Coffee (900 6th St NW, Washington, DC, USA)

Boston Holidays meet up
2023-12-18 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | 24 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA 02138, 24 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Join our Executive Director Eric Plosky for a MobilityData holiday coffee in Harvard Square, Cambridge!
If you’re a tech enthusiast, an industry professional, or just someone who wants to be part of a transportation community, feel free to drop by for a hot beverage and some holiday cheer.
📍Holiday coffee in Cambridge
🗓️ Monday, December 18
☕ 24 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 (Capital One Cafe)
⏰ 9:00-11:00 am ET
(Please send a note to Eric if you are planning to drop by!)

Expert panel - CIE Benchmarking Bike Share in 148 Cities
2023-12-12 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Brussels)
Join us for an insightful webinar on December 12th at 3PM CET as our Product Manager in Shared Mobility, Josée Sabourin, participates in the CIE Mobility Afternoons Series. 🌐
🔍 Topic: Benchmarking Bike Share in 148 Cities – Follow-up session with the experts
🌍 About the Session: Following the success of CIE’s benchmarking study “Shared Ambition,” dive into a Q&A format with a panel of bike-sharing experts, including Josée Sabourin. Learn more about the benchmarking analysis that ranked 148 cities based on the effectiveness of their bike-sharing schemes. Discover key performance indicators and insights to enhance your city’s bike-sharing initiatives.
🗣️ Our Expert Panel:

Marion Galan Alfonso, Donkey Republic
Mareike Rauchhaus, Tier by nextbike
Sebastian Schlebusch, Dott
Gian Carlo Crivello, PBSC
Jaron Borensztajn, Cargoroo
Caroline Van Renterghem, Fifteen
Sébastien Marteau, Fluctuo
Josée Sabourin, MobilityData
Kevin Mayne, Cycling Industries Europe

🎤 Moderator: Kristian Brink, CEO, Urban Sharing
📈 Session Highlights:

Cities that performed well and why
Key performance indicators for successful bike sharing
Strategies to improve your city’s ranking

📅 Save the Date: Tuesday, December 12th, 3PM CET
🔗 Registration: Click here to register
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to gain tailored guidance from bike-sharing experts. Let’s pedal towards a future of sustainable and effective mobility together! 🌱🚴‍♀️

Happy Hour - Montreal
2023-12-11 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Toronto)
MobilityData organisera un Happy Hour pour clôturer l’année en bonne compagnie, à Montréal, Canada, le 11 Décembre, de 17 h à 19 h. Vous souhaitez discuter des succès de l’année, réseauter avec vos pairs et rencontrer l’équipe de MobilityData ? C’est votre chance !
Toute personne de la communauté de la mobilité est la bienvenue. Toute l’équipe montréalaise de MobilityData sera présente. Nous remercions Busbud de nous accueillir dans leurs bureaux du Mile End!
Pour assurer la logistique de l’événement, veuillez RSVP ici avant le 5 Décembre.
Nous sommes impatient.e.s de vous rencontrer en personne !
MobilityData will be hosting a Happy Hour to end the year in good company, in Montreal, Canada on Monday December 11th, from 5 to 7 p.m. Looking to discuss the wins of the year, network with some peers and meet with the MobilityData team? This is your chance!
Anyone from the mobility community is welcome to join us. The whole MobilityData team will be present. We thank Busbud for welcoming us to their Mile End offices!
To ensure the logistics of the event, please RSVP here before December 5th.
We’re looking forward to meeting you in person!
