Add 'other' option to vehicle_type

[schnuerle]

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

Would like to align vehicle types between MDS and GBFS.

Currently GBFS v2.1rc has 5 types, and MDS 0.4.1 has 4 types.

They are the same except GBFS has an other type.

Describe the solution you'd like

Would like to add the other to vehicle_types. It seems valuable so you don't have to make up your own type or pigeon hole into one of the 4, for example if you want to do use MDS with a new vehicle type like dockless cars, drones, etc. Can be updated later away from other by providers/cities when the new vehicle type is added to the spec.

If possible, I'd like to include this in 1.0.0. Can be implemented in the Reconciliation PR #506.

Is this a breaking change

• No, non-breaking

Impacted Spec

For which spec is this feature being requested?

• agency
• policy
• provider

Describe alternatives you've considered

Do nothing, leave the feature specified as-is.

[thekaveman]

Submitted a Draft PR for review against the Reconciliation work: lacuna-tech#14

[schnuerle]

MobilityData said on a call the intention is catch new vehicle types until they can be added to future releases.

See line 270 in this PR change: https://github.com/NABSA/gbfs/pull/136/files#diff-b85f1f78eaba81b0af480ba6c878256eR270

Also note in this GBFS PR they are changing bike_id to vehicle_id to match MDS!

[schnuerle]

Conversation 6/18 Provider WG call: Agreed this was a good thing to add.

[thekaveman]

Once #506 is merged, I'll submit a new PR with the same changes as the linked PR, into the MDS repo.

[schnuerle]

Resolved and added with the #534 PR.