SMART CURB COLLABORATIVE
The Open Mobility Foundation’s SMART Curb Collaborative is a group of cities united in tackling challenges in curb management, reducing congestion, enhancing livability, and improving safety and equity on city streets. Each of these public agencies is a recipient of USDOT’s Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) grant program, which provides funding to build data and technology capacity across the US.
The Open Mobility Foundation’s SMART Curb Collaborative is a group of cities united in tackling challenges in curb management, reducing congestion, enhancing livability, and improving safety and equity on city streets. Each of these public agencies is a recipient of USDOT’s Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) grant program, which provides funding to build data and technology capacity across the US.
BUILDING ON an OPEN SOURCE MODEL
The OMF’s Curb Data Specification (CDS) lies at the heart of every project in the Curb Collaborative. CDS is an open-source data standard stewarded by the OMF. At its core, CDS is a set of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) that allow cities to digitally represent their curb space and communicate with curb users in different ways.
USE OF CDS IN SMART PROJECTS
- Pilot zero-emission delivery zones and low-emission last-mile delivery services
- Pilot bookable smart loading zones
- Create new digital commercial vehicle permits
- Inventory objects at the curb
- Understand and communicate curb use with real-time information
- Create a digital catalog of existing curb regulations
HOW WE WORK
SHARED GOALS & RESOURCES
- Further develop CDS based on real-world learnings
- Provide technical implementation assistance
- Facilitate peer-to-peer learning and knowledge exchanges
- Advance curb digitization by providing accessible guides and lessons for any city to utilize and adapt.
Members of the SMART Curb Collaborative participate in regular programming to learn from each other about the implementation of new tools, technologies, and approaches – tackling common issues alongside peers. The collaborative model goes beyond any one city’s project by also producing resources for non-member cities to learn from and adapt. That’s why OMF’s SMART Curb Collaborative is an exciting innovation in itself. By offering an environment for cities to learn and build together, we’re advancing the state of practice for curb management around the world.
MEMBERS
Los Angeles
Miami-Dade County
MINNEAPOLIS
Philadelphia
PORTLAND
SAN FRANCISCO
SAN JOSE
seattle
“The Open Mobility Foundation is a great example of how governments can leverage the power of data to transform and modernize the use of city infrastructure to ensure a more equitable future for all.”
Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, President of The Rockefeller Foundation