Open Mobility Foundation

The Open Mobility Foundation is a public-private partnership for open source, vendor-neutral, privacy-forward and sustainable urban mobility data tools. OMF was launched by member cities, tech sector and NGO members to develop code and tools, starting with a contribution by the City of Los Angeles of their open source code base for a data platform called the “Mobility Data Specification” (MDS). MDS is comprised of a set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and code projects that enable standard communications between cities and users of the public right-of-way (i.e. e-scooter companies or city-run bus services) to improve safety and protect residents. Now used by over 50 cities, MDS was originally developed by LA's Department of Transportation to help manage dockless micro-mobility programs (including shared dockless e-scooters).