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Bird MDS Geofence Zones (GBFS) (Open Data)
<p style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(31, 35, 40); font-family:-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin-bottom:16px; margin-top:0px; text-align:start; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'><span style='font-size:18px;'>The General Bikeshare Feed Specification, known as GBFS, is the open data standard for shared mobility. GBFS makes real-time data feeds in a uniform format publicly available online, with an emphasis on findability. GBFS is intended to make information publicly available online; therefore information that is personally identifiable is not currently and will not become part of the core specification.</span></p><p style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(31, 35, 40); font-family:-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin-bottom:16px; margin-top:0px; text-align:start; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'><span style='font-size:18px;'>GBFS was created in 2014 by </span><a style='background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(9, 105, 218);' target='_blank' href='https://github.com/mplsmitch' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'><span style='font-size:18px;'><u>Mitch Vars</u></span></a><span style='font-size:18px;'> with collaboration from public, private sector and non-profit shared mobility system owners and operators, application developers, and technology vendors. </span><a style='background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(9, 105, 218);' target='_blank' href='https://github.com/fruminator' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'><span style='font-size:18px;'><u>Michael Frumin</u></span></a><span style='font-size:18px;'>, </span><a style='background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(9, 105, 218);' target='_blank' href='https://github.com/jcn' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'><span style='font-size:18px;'><u>Jesse Chan-Norris</u></span></a><span style='font-size:18px;'> and others made significant contributions of time and expertise toward the development of v1.0 on behalf of Motivate International LLC (now Lyft). The </span><a style='background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(9, 105, 218);' target='_blank' href='https://www.nabsa.net/' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'><span style='font-size:18px;'><u>North American Bikeshare Association’s</u></span></a><span style='font-size:18px;'> endorsement, support, and hosting was key to its success starting in 2015. In 2019, NABSA chose MobilityData to govern and facilitate the improvement of GBFS. MobilityData hosts a </span><a style='background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(9, 105, 218);' target='_blank' href='https://gbfs.org/' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'><span style='font-size:18px;'><u>GBFS Resource Center</u></span></a><span style='font-size:18px;'> and a </span><a style='background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(9, 105, 218);' target='_blank' href='https://share.mobilitydata.org/slack' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'><span style='font-size:18px;'><u>public GBFS Slack channel</u></span></a><span style='font-size:18px;'> - you are welcome to contact us there or at </span><a style='background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(9, 105, 218);' href='mailto:sharedmobility@mobilitydata.org' rel='nofollow ugc'><span style='font-size:18px;'><u>sharedmobility@mobilitydata.org</u></span></a><span style='font-size:18px;'> with questions.</span></p><p style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(31, 35, 40); font-family:-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin-bottom:16px; margin-top:0px; text-align:start; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'><span style='font-size:18px;'>GBFS is intended as a specification for real-time, read-only data - any data being written back into individual shared mobility systems are excluded from this spec.</span></p><p style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(31, 35, 40); font-family:-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin-bottom:16px; margin-top:0px; text-align:start; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'><span style='font-size:18px;'>The specification has been designed with the following concepts in mind:</span></p><ul><li><span style='font-size:18px;'>Provide the status of the system at this moment</span></li><li><span style='font-size:18px;'>Do not provide information whose primary purpose is historical</span></li></ul><p style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(31, 35, 40); font-family:-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin-bottom:16px; margin-top:0px; text-align:start; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'><span style='font-size:18px;'>The data in the specification contained in this document is intended for consumption by clients intending to provide real-time (or semi-real-time) transit advice and is designed as such.</span></p><p style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(31, 35, 40); font-family:-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin-bottom:16px; margin-top:0px; text-align:start; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'> </p><p style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(31, 35, 40); font-family:-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin-bottom:16px; margin-top:0px; text-align:start; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'><a target='_blank' href='https://github.com/MobilityData/gbfs' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'><span style='font-size:18px;'>https://github.com/MobilityData/gbfs</span></a></p>
Complete Metadata
| identifier | https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=08fd259331fa46f38628f21bba399bbe&sublayer=0 |
|---|---|
| issued | 2025-10-21T18:57:01.000Z |
| landingPage | https://data.tempe.gov/datasets/tempegov::bird-mds-geofence-zones-gbfs-open-data |
| spatial | -111.9824,33.2172,-111.7461,33.9108 |
| theme |
[ "geospatial" ] |