Monthly Digest: Endpoint timeout, Mobility Database API, etc

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📣 Your monthly GBFS news update! 🚲 🛴 🛵 🚘

🙌 GBFS Feeds Added Last Month

• 68 new feeds from Dott. Major cities: Athens 🇬🇷, Helsinki 🇫🇮, Wuppertal 🇩🇪 (thanks @viestat)
• 9 new feeds from nextbike. Major cities: Brussels region 🇧🇪 , Gothenburg 🇸🇪 , Bremen 🇩🇪 (thanks @j0kan)
• 2 new feeds from Fifteen in Auxerre and Caen 🇫🇷

✨ Spec Updates

• Endpoint timeout (#715): A vote is open to add a recommendation that "endpoints SHOULD respond to HTTP requests in less than 1 second". Add your vote 🗳️
• Fare capping (#745): New feature available for implementation.

🤩 GBFS feeds have arrived in the Mobility Database API! To try it out (in beta):

1. Create a free Mobility Database API account at https://mobilitydatabase.org/sign-up
2. Go to Account > Account details > Generate Access Token
3. Copy the Access Token in the Authorize pop-up in the Swagger UI

🗓️ Events
Upcoming:

• 🇵🇱 June 10-13, 2025 (Gdańsk): @isabelle-dr will be present at the Velo-city conference.
• 🇩🇪 June 15-18, 2025 (Hamburg): Meet @isabelle-dr at the UITP Summit!
• 🇫🇷 June 24-25, 2025 (Paris): MobilityData GBFS & GTFS workshops. I will have the privilege of facilitating two workshops that are close to my heart: Measuring the Impact of Shared Mobility and Exploring Innovations. Register here!

💌 User Story
✊ AAVP, CIE, DG MOVE, and many other organizations rely on GBFS to produce usage reports. These reports are used, for example, to secure public funding at the national or European level. One of our workshops in Paris will be dedicated to the technical aspect of this topic. Join us!