Monthly Digest: Validating v3.1-RC2, User Requirements, etc

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📣 Your monthly GBFS news update! 🚲 🛴 🛵 🚘

🙌 GBFS Feeds Added Last Month

• 2 new feeds from Bolt and Donkey Republic in Essen and Hanover 🇩🇪 (thanks @dersvenhesse)

→ All GBFS feeds from systems.csv are also in the new Mobility Database UI and API, maintained by MobilityData.

✨ Spec Updates

• Ongoing discussion: Support User Requirements (minimum age, driving license, etc) #771

The GBFS Validator now supports v3.1-RC2 🥳
This new Release Candidate brings major improvements, especially for carsharing and reservation-based systems:

• 🚘 Vehicle availability calendars can now be shared via the new vehicle_availability.json endpoint!

And also:

• 📍 Adding the city where a station is located
• 💶 Defining capped fares after reaching a spending threshold

🗓️ Events
Past:

• 🇫🇷 June 24-25, 2025 (Paris): Thank you to all the MobilityData workshop participants! Our team loved chatting and working with all of you!

Upcoming:

• July 7, 2025 (online): La Fabrique des Mobilité is hosting a webinar on Data Standards for carsharing (in French). Register here

👨‍🍼 My colleagues at MobilityData will take over during my parental leave from September 2025 to February 2026 :)