Semantic Changes: Bike becomes Vehicle

[mplsmitch]

What problem does your proposal solve? Please begin with the relevant issue number. If there is no existing issue, please also describe alternative solutions you have considered.

As the specification has evolved to cover multiple vehicles types beyond bicycles, the term "bike" has continued to be used to describe vehicles which may or may not be bikes. This has been a cause of confusion for both publishers and consumers alike.

What is the proposal?

This proposal is a long planned change to remove this ambiguity by replacing the term "bike" with "vehicle' throughout the specification. This requires renaming of an endpoint and several fields including:

• free_bikes_status.json endpoint becomes vehicle_status.json
• free_bike_status.bikes[ ] array becomes vehicle_status.vehicles [ ]
• free_bike_status.bikes[ ].bike_id becomes vehicle_id`
• station_status.stations[ ].num_bikes_available becomes num_vehicles_available
• station_status.stations[ ].num_bikes_disabled becomes num_vehicles_disabled

Is this a breaking change?

• Yes
• No
• Unsure

Which files are affected by this change?

gbfs.md
README.md

[mplsmitch]

I hereby call a vote on this proposal. Voting will be open for 10 full calendar days until 11:59PM UTC on December 9, 2021.

Please vote for or against the proposal, and include the organization for which you are voting in your comment.

Please note if you can commit to implementing the proposal.

[kanagy]

+1 from Google Maps. Not implementing right now, but will have to support in future as we start to ingest v3.

[richtaylor-ito]

+1 from Ito World.

[sven4all]

+1 from CROW

[cmonagle]

+1 from Transit

[testower]

Entur supports this proposal

[nbdh]

+1 from nextbike

wondering when GBFS is renamed to GVFS 😢

[heidiguenin]

Voting on this PR closes in 2 calendar days. Please vote for or against the proposal, and include the organization for which you are voting in your comment. Please note if you can commit to implementing the proposal.

[ncancelliere]

+1 from Spin.

[tadam313]

+1 from TIER

[heidiguenin]

This vote has now closed, and it passes!

Votes in favor:
Google Maps (consumer)
Ito World (producer)
CROW (producer)
Transit (consumer)
Entur (consumer)
nextbike (producer)
Spin (producer)
TIER (producer)


There were no votes against.
Thank you to everyone who took the time to review and to vote on this!

We will tag and merge this into v3.0-RC2 in the coming weeks.