SharedStreets

What SharedStreets does

SharedStreets is a nonprofit open-source project launched in February 2018 by the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) and the Open Transport Partnership. It builds digital infrastructure for transportation data sharing between cities and private mobility companies. The core technology is the SharedStreets Referencing System — a global, non-proprietary linear referencing system built on OpenStreetMap data that uses hash-based Reference IDs to uniquely identify street segments and subsegments, enabling data linked to different basemaps to be linked together without requiring geometry alignment. This solves the fundamental interoperability problem that prevents cities from combining datasets (e.g., crash data, micromobility trips, rideshare pickups, speed data) that all refer to the same physical streets but use different underlying maps.

The product portfolio extends the referencing system into a vertical toolkit of open-source applications: the SharedStreets CLI for map-matching GIS data; Mobility Metrics for aggregating micromobility data from MDS feeds with privacy-preserving minimum trip thresholds; the Road Closures web app for publishing closure data in GeoJSON and Waze CIFS formats; CurbLR, an open curb regulation data standard co-developed with Ford Mobility; plus pilot products for Taxi/TNC Activity and Speeds analysis. All tools are distributed free via GitHub and npm. The customer base is concentrated in municipal transportation agencies (SFMTA, DDOT, Toronto Transportation Services, Seattle DOT, City of Detroit, and 10+ additional pilot cities) and mobility operators (Uber, Lyft, Ford Mobility), with developers and researchers as a secondary segment.

The business model is philanthropic rather than commercial. SharedStreets operates as a project of the Open Transport Partnership, an independent nonprofit, funded primarily by Bloomberg Philanthropies and private-sector partners. The organization charges no licensing fees and provides implementation support to government agencies at no cost, with a governance commitment to refuse any funding that would compromise its independence. Customer acquisition is driven by direct outreach to city transportation departments, open-source community channels, and partnerships with anchor organizations like NACTO. The current core team comprises a Director, Product Lead, and Software Engineer, supported by board members including Robin Chase and Janette Sadik-Khan.

Name

SharedStreets

Website

https://sharedstreets.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

SharedStreets is a nonprofit open-source project that builds a global, non-proprietary street referencing system and supporting tools (Mobility Metrics, Road Closures, CurbLR) to enable cities and mobility companies to share interoperable transportation data.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Transportation Data Infrastructure

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821)

akta.pro primary industry

Micromobility Aggregators / MaaS Platforms (Multi-Modal Booking & Passes) (TLAFAMAI)

Keywords

• Open source transportation data
• Street referencing system
• Curb regulation data
• Micromobility metrics
• Road closure data

Headquarters

HQ city

Boston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Philanthropic Funding: SharedStreets is a nonprofit project funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and private-sector partners committed to reimagining transportation data sharing.
2. Nonprofit Support: As a project of the Open Transport Partnership, an independent nonprofit, they are committed to independence and do not accept funding that affects their ability to pursue work free of external influence.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

SharedStreets builds and distributes open source digital infrastructure that creates a shared digital language for streets, enabling cities and private mobility companies to exchange street-linked data across different basemaps. Its core product is the SharedStreets Referencing System—a global, non-proprietary linear referencing system using hash-based Reference IDs—surrounded by complementary tools such as the SharedStreets CLI, Mobility Metrics, the Road Closures web app, and the CurbLR data standard for curb regulation.

Product overview

SharedStreets is an open source software platform that builds digital infrastructure for transportation data sharing between cities and private companies. The core offering is the SharedStreets Referencing System—a global, non-proprietary system for describing streets that enables data linked to different basemaps to be linked together. Built on this foundation are modular tools including the SharedStreets CLI for map-matching, Mobility Metrics for aggregating micromobility data, the Road Closures web app for producing street closure data, CurbLR as an open data standard for curb regulations, and pilot products for Taxi/TNC Activity and Speeds analysis. All tools are open source and designed for public-private collaboration while protecting individual privacy through aggregation and anonymization.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CurbLR: An open data standard for curb regulation data, developed in collaboration with Ford Mobility, that provides a structured way for cities to store and share essential curb information.
• Mobility Metrics
• SharedStreets Road Closures

Products and services

• SharedStreets Referencing System Global, non-proprietary system for describing streets that creates a shared language enabling data linked to different basemaps to be linked together. Uses linear referencing with hash-based Reference IDs to identify street segments and subsegments regardless of the underlying map. Built on OpenStreetMap data.
• SharedStreets CLI Command line interface for map-matching GIS data to the SharedStreets referencing system. Handles large data volumes for matching street data, speeds data, and other transportation datasets, and can process routing rules for cars, bikes, and pedestrians.
• Mobility Metrics Open source software that aggregates micromobility data (scooters and dockless bikes) from MDS feeds into daily summaries and map-based metrics. Runs locally on city infrastructure with privacy-protecting aggregation and minimum trip thresholds.
• Road Closures Web App Open source web application for cities to produce road closure data by drawing on a map. Outputs closure data in GeoJSON and Waze CIFS formats, linked to streets using the SharedStreets referencing system.
• CurbLR Open data standard for curb regulation data, developed in collaboration with Ford Mobility. Provides structured format for cities to store and share curb information with linear referencing to streets.
• Taxi and TNC Activity Pilot project providing high-resolution anonymized aggregated data on for-hire vehicle pickup and dropoff activity. Enables cities to manage curb space while protecting user privacy through aggregation and binning.
• Speeds Pilot project for linking speed data from multiple providers to the SharedStreets referencing system. Enables analysis combining speed data with other street-linked datasets like crash and safety data.
• SharedStreets API Public API enabling developers to access SharedStreets referencing system capabilities for map-matching, linking pickup/dropoff data to street networks, and extracting speed data.

Quantifiable outcome

• Privacy protection through aggregation to minimum trip threshold (default: 3 unique trip pairs)

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

21 partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and pilot.

• Ford MobilitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 June 2019Collaborating on CurbLR open standard for curb regulation data. Ford Mobility works with SharedStreets to develop an open data standard for managing curbspace.
• National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 February 2018Launched SharedStreets as a first-of-its-kind transportation data standard and platform for public-private partnerships. NACTO and Open Transport Partnership collaborate to allow cities to work with companies on managing streets and preparing for transportation technology advancement.
• UbercoreTechnology or IntegrationUber releases speed datasets linked to SharedStreets referencing system. This enables cities to combine Uber speed data with other street-linked datasets like crash data.
• LyftcoreTechnology or IntegrationLyft shares pickup and drop-off data with cities through SharedStreets platform to enable better curb management and policy decisions.
• Seattle DOTflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerPilot partner for Construction & Closures project. Seattle DOT uses SharedStreets tools to produce road closure data in standardized format.
• City of DetroitflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerPilot partner for Construction & Closures project, testing road closure data production using SharedStreets referencing system.
• Washington DCflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerFacilitating data sharing with Uber, Lyft and DFHV to help DDOT reallocate parking where it has most impact.
• PittsburghpilotStrategic or Co-development PartnerCity partner for Taxi and TNC Activity pilot project.
• TorontopilotStrategic or Co-development PartnerCity partner for Taxi and TNC Activity pilot. General Manager Barbara Gray endorsed SharedStreets as foundation for smart city data.
• Los AngelespilotStrategic or Co-development PartnerCity partner for Taxi and TNC Activity pilot.
• MinneapolispilotStrategic or Co-development PartnerCity partner for Taxi and TNC Activity pilot.
• SeattlepilotStrategic or Co-development PartnerCity partner for Taxi and TNC Activity pilot.
• BostonpilotStrategic or Co-development PartnerCity partner for Taxi and TNC Activity pilot.
• ChicagopilotStrategic or Co-development PartnerCity partner for Taxi and TNC Activity pilot.
• DenverpilotStrategic or Co-development PartnerCity partner for Taxi and TNC Activity pilot.
• CincinnatipilotStrategic or Co-development PartnerCity partner for Taxi and TNC Activity pilot.
• OaklandpilotStrategic or Co-development PartnerCity partner for Taxi and TNC Activity pilot.
• Columbus, OhiopilotStrategic or Co-development PartnerCity partner for Taxi and TNC Activity pilot.
• Arlington, VApilotStrategic or Co-development PartnerCity partner for Taxi and TNC Activity pilot.
• Bellevue, WApilotStrategic or Co-development PartnerCity partner for Taxi and TNC Activity pilot.
• San FranciscopilotStrategic or Co-development PartnerCity partner for Taxi and TNC Activity pilot. Director Ed Reiskin endorsed SharedStreets for street data management.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• INRIX: A leading provider of traffic, parking, and curbside analytics for cities and automotive OEMs. Competes across multiple product lines SharedStreets serves (Speeds, CurbLR-adjacent curb data, road closures) using proprietary data collection at much larger scale.
• StreetLight Data: A mobility analytics vendor serving states, MPOs, and cities with aggregated trip and travel-pattern insights. Competes with SharedStreets Mobility Metrics as a commercial alternative for cities seeking standardized mobility data, but via a closed analytics platform rather than open source.
• Replica: An urban mobility data platform (Sidewalk Labs spin-off, now part of Bentley) producing synthesized activity data for planning. Overlaps with SharedStreets in serving cities with mobility insights derived from private-sector data, though Replica focuses on planning rather than open data-sharing infrastructure.
• Mapbox: A commercial mapping and location platform used heavily by mobility and logistics developers. Mapbox competes as a vendor-agnostic but proprietary alternative to SharedStreets, supplying basemaps and APIs that cities and mobility companies could choose over an open referencing layer.
• Overture Maps Foundation: A Linux Foundation–hosted open map data initiative backed by Meta, Microsoft, AWS, TomTom and others, producing interoperable open map data. Overture competes for adoption as an open standard for location data and is the most direct large-scale open-standards competitor to SharedStreets' referencing approach.
• Waze: A crowdsourced navigation platform already integrated with SharedStreets Road Closures (via Waze CIFS). Waze is both an integration partner and a potential competitor — its Closure program offers cities an alternative channel for publishing road-closure data.
• Remix: A transportation planning platform (now part of Via) widely used by city DOTs for street and transit design. Comparable in customer base (city transportation agencies) and in providing digital tools for managing streets, though Remix focuses on planning rather than open data-sharing infrastructure.

Others

• NUMO (New Urban Mobility Alliance): A global alliance hosted by ITDP focused on shaping policy and standards for new mobility services. Not a software peer, but an adjacent ecosystem actor working on the same public-private data-sharing agenda SharedStreets serves.

Emerging players

• Conveyal: An open-source transportation analytics company building tools (R5, TravelTime) used by public agencies for accessibility and scenario analysis. Comparable in providing open-source tools to transportation agencies, though focused on accessibility/isochrones rather than street referencing.

Direct peers

• OpenStreetMap Foundation: The steward of OpenStreetMap, the open geographic database on which SharedStreets' referencing system is built. Operates as a community-governed nonprofit producing open street data, the same substrate and ethos that SharedStreets extends into the transportation-data layer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/sharedstreets
• Xx.com/sharedstreetsio
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/open-transport-partnership-sharedstreets

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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