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Scope of Work document
Full Working Group Charter (PDF)
OMF Member Slack: #wg-curb
OMF Blog Work Start Announcement and Public WG Launch
OMF Blog CDS Version 1.0 Release Candidate Announcement and About CDS Webpage
Meeting Dates and Notes - see below

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Meeting Agendas
Steering Committee
Summary
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Build tools to help cities better manage and operate their curb space, and support curb management policy experimentation, innovation, and scaling. Read the About CDS Page and the Scope of Work for full details.

Spec on GitHub
About CDS web page
Getting Started Guide - 2024
Working Draft document (complete)
Architectural Decisions
Use Cases
Pilot Project Guide - 2022
Policy Language Guidance
Data Privacy
Slide Deck: OMF & CDS overview in presentation format, with links to key resources
One-Pager: OMF & CDS overview, ready to print and share
Release 1.0.0 - 2022

The OMF and community contributors regularly update CDS with new features and additions. Releases are tracked here on the CDS Releases page and more information can be found here:

CDS Version 1.0 is available
CDS Releases List - Current, past, and future release plans
Github Official CDS Releases - The list of approved and published CDS releases can be viewed on this official Github page.

Meetings available for anyone to attend and participate in. Events are listed on the OMF Public Calendar. If you are on the Curb mailing list you will automatically be added to the Curb events.

Meetings: Monthly on Tuesday call at 9am PT, 12pm ET, 5/6pm CET
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During the creation of CDS the OMF has had active public participation from 160+ individuals from 70+ public agencies, curb users, and technology companies, many of which are planning to deploy the specification in curb pilots around the globe. Here is a list of organizations we know using CDS, developing for CDS, or planning to use CDS in the near term:

Public Sector

Brian Hamlin , Curbside Management Strategic Advisor, Seattle DOT
Tobias Marx, Parking Services Division Manager, City of Bend
Jacob Larson (co-chair), Applications Analyst, City of Omaha Parking and Mobility
Elias Khoury, On-Street Parking Manager, City of San Jose
David Harrison, Curbside Management & Shared Mobility Section Manager, City of Charlotte (Department of Transportation)
Laurent Gauthier, Conseiller principal, méthode et recherche, Agence de mobilité durable, Montréal
Matt Warfield, New Mobility Director, City of Boston Streets
Zackary Campos, Transportation Planning Associate II, LADOT
Kenya Wheeler (co-chair), Principal Transportation Planner, SFMTA

Private Sector

Rick Neubauer, CEO, Umojo
James Barr, COO, Turnstone
Jacob Malleau, Product Manager, CurbIQ
Vishay Nihalani, Director of Product Management, Waymo
Michael Schwartz, General Manager, Ride Report, INRIX
Hayley Coleman Halphen, Head of Deployment, Urban Radar

The Curb Management Working Group (WG) is responsible for delivering data and APIspecifications that facilitate the inventory, exchange, and analysis of information describingcurb assets and regulations. This include dynamic information such asoccupancy/utilization, pricing, and regulations that are set or adjusted using use cases, policy, and metrics.

The WG conducted its work in two phases whose timeline was determined bythe Working Group Steering Committee (WGSC): a Discovery phase and an Implementation phase. These phases are now complete as wehave started publishing official CDS Releases.

Urban curb is a valuable, limited, and often under-managed part of the public right of way. Curbdemand comes from passenger pickup/drop off, traditional and on-demand delivery services,transit priority, active mobility (e.g walking, biking and micromobility), and parking for personalvehicles and micromobility devices. While cities have made some progress in digitizing theircurb and other physical assets, technology and data offer new tools to proactively managecurbs and sidewalks, and in doing so deliver more public value from this scarce resource. Citiesoften lack a digital index or map of curb regulations, relying instead on signs and paint in theright of way. Curb data standards could provide a mechanism for expressing static and dynamicregulations for curb use. New approaches to curb usage fees could enable more goal-drivenmanagement strategies. OMF is well positioned to help cities use dynamic digital curbregulations, which could allow cities to manage the curb and adjacent infrastructure onsidewalks within the public right of way in real time and communicate the evolving restrictions,permissions, and pricing via a data feed or API.

OMF could support this type of policy innovation by specifying APIs within MDS to supportpolicy approaches such as:

Dynamic ridehail pick-up/drop off spaces during special events
Conversion of on-street vehicle parking spaces into designated micromobilty parking
Time restricted freight/delivery zoned to increase efficiency of urban logistics
Pricing of curb access or parking on a static or demand-responsive basis
Dynamic or flexible curb use regulations that respond to changing use patterns

See our CDS Releases page for release dates.

Discovery Phase (OMF members + invited guests): Explore existing efforts in curb data and management practices (Nov 2020 - Apr 2021)
Implementation Phase (public): Start work towards an technical release (May 2021 - Dec 2021)
- May to Sep 2021 - Spec work and pilot alignment feedback
  - End of July for Curb spec, still in flux (alpha, first draft)
  - End of August for Events spec
  - End of Sept for Metrics spec
- Oct and Nov 2021 - Release finalization
- Dec 2021 - CDS work finished
- Apr - Aug 2022 - Work on next release and feedback on 1.0 and pilot projects
CDS 1.0 Release Candidate Launch - Jan 25 2022
CDS 1.0 Released - Apr 29 2022

Discovery Phase Meetings

Completed. For OMF member organizations and invited guests to the Curb WG.

2020-11-18 - Curb Kickoff Call
2020-12-02 - SharedStreets: CurbLR deep dive
2020-12-16 - Coord deep dive
2021-01-06 - T4A (Beth Osborne) and three member cities (Seattle, DC, Minneapolis) curb projects
2021-01-20 - APDS (Michael Drow) and three member cities (SANDAG, SFMTA, LADOT) curb projects
2021-02-03 - Curb ecosystem, Automotus monitoring API
2021-03-03 - WGSC only - planning
2021-02-17 - Linear referencing deep dive w/ DC (James Graham)
2021-03-17 - Implementation Phase - scope feedback
2021-03-31 - WGSC only - scope and rollout
2021-04-16 - Implementation Phase - final scope review and work rollout

Media Coverage

Samples of media coverage of CDS

Open Mobility Foundation Develops Data Standards for Curbs | GovTech
Open Mobility Foundation rolls out data standards for curb space | Smart Cities Dive
New data standard aims to simplify kerb management | Cities Today
Seattle - Improving Curbside Access
Ford City Talks and DC - How Cities are Revolutionizing the Curbside