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MAPC urges data reporting from food-delivery platforms to help manage curb space, congestion and planning

5938516 · October 7, 2025

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The Metropolitan Area Planning Council told the Joint Committee on Transportation that rapid food-delivery trips from platforms like Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub have grown sharply and that state and municipal planners lack data on mode, routes and volumes. MAPC asked the committee to require the platforms to report data similar to what TNCs

Georgia Barlow, testifying for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), asked the committee to report favorably on Senate Bill 2355 and House Bill 3732, which would require online order and delivery platforms to report trip-level data to state and municipal planners in the same format that Transportation Network Companies currently report.

MAPC told the committee it estimated rapid food deliveries in Massachusetts climbed from about 40 million in 2019 to between 120 and 151 million in 2023. Barlow said planners need data on delivery locations, modes of transport and timing to address curb-space conflicts, illegal parking, congestion, bus-lane and bike-lane blockages, and associated emissions. "These online order and delivery platforms have really shifted the way that restaurants, convenience stores, and grocery stores market their products," she said, and municipal officials need comparable data to the TNC reports so they can manage these impacts.

MAPC will submit written materials and asked the committee to support the bills to improve transportation and land-use planning statewide. No formal committee action was recorded at the hearing.