Provides real-time information for bikeshare systems, such as number of available docks or bikes per station. Apps such as Transit can easily incorporate bikeshare station locations and statuses across participating cities
- License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
- About the Publisher: No information
- Updated by Publisher: 2016-09-08
- Level of Use: Currently used by 50 bikeshare operators, mostly in the US.
- Open License: Yes
- Transferable to other Jurisdictions: JSON format includes a root page on a gbfs domain with auto-discoverable links to JSON files
- Stakeholder Participation: Stakeholders can collaborate and communicate on Github
- Consensus-based Governance: Documentation is completely open on Github
- Extensions: Possible future enhancements such as distinguishing between multiple bike types in a system were proposed but do not fit into the current specification
- Machine Readable: JSON only
- Human Readable: Standard uses long, descriptive attribute names. Root page includes links and names for all the feeds provided by the operator
- Requires Real-Time Data: First two attributes in JSON are last_updated in epoch time, and ttl, which specifies the number of seconds until the data will be updated
- Metadata: No information
Added to directory: 2017-05-24