Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Background:
Ride Report is working with a variety of carshare operators on MDS and is looking to develop the spec to support carshare specific use cases we have identified.

Use Cases:

• Flexible Rates: Carshare rentals allow users to rent vehicles by the minute, hour, or by days. Currently, MDS Provider shows vehicle rental per minute and API consumers are unable to differentiate between users who selected per minute pricing vs. per day vs. per hour.
• Fleet Info: Carshare providers utilize a variety of makes and models of cars. From sedans to SUVs, from ICE vehicles to electric or hybrid powertrains. All the vehicles have different cargo and passenger capacities. It would be helpful to get a snapshot of a providers fleet mix breakdown, to evaluate the type of vehicles people are utilizing.
• Service Area Exit: The carshare mode inherently offers shared mobility users flexibility to take different length (distance, duration) trips. It would be helpful to get some sort of data about a trip when it exits the service area in privacy preserving manner. Are cars going far away? Are cars going out of the larger metro area? Are cars going out-of-state?
• Vehicle Idle Time: Cars sit idle and take up a substantial amount of space. Cities would like to know how long cars sit idle on the PROW for a variety of reasons: to understand utilization, pricing, loss parking revenue, etc. With MDS Provider we can measure how long a vehicle is sitting based on the unavailable vehicle state, however with carshare a user can rent a vehicle for up to a week at a time and there is no state representing a reserved vehicle that is parked.
• Other Vehicle Data: Odometer data to aid in accuracy of trip metrics and routing.
• Policy: new Policy capabilities that are specific to car share, like parking parking Policy that refers to specific signage (i.e. 2hr zones) instead of just geofences.

Describe the solution you'd like

TBD, We are working on a more formal technical proposal.

Is this a breaking change

• I'm not sure, but this will become more clear as we determine the technical solution.

Impacted Spec

For which spec is this feature being requested?

• provider
• policy

Additional Information

List of some agencies and orgs that are known to have carshare. If you have other add them in the comments. If you are part of these orgs, please leave comments about what data you use or share

1. Transport for London
2. Lyon France
3. Los Angeles - BlueLA
4. Minneapolis
5. Portland with Free2Move via Ride Report, also Zipcar, Turo, Getaround
6. Washington DC, Free2Move, mopeds
7. Austin
8. Seattle Limepods
9. Oakland Gig
10. Minneapolis
11. SFMTA on street car sharing
12. Denver
13. San Jose
14. Companies - Blue Systems, Populus, Inverse, Vulog
15. Most large cities in EU have carshare