Data Space for Mobility

Topic description

Objective:

The objective is to contribute to the further development of the common European Mobility data space announced in the Data Strategy and in the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy, built and operated in full compliance with existing EU legislation in the mobility and transport sectors.

The specific aim is to support the creation of a technical infrastructure combined with governance mechanisms that will facilitate easy, cross-border access to key data resources in this area. This will be on the basis of and in full alignment with existing and upcoming mobility and transport initiatives (some of which are regulated) that organise the sharing of data for both passengers and freight in the domains and where relevant become an integral part of the emerging European data and cloud services infrastructure.

Data for sustainable urban mobility indicators (SUMI) and for traffic and travel information in urban and regional areas will be made available for reuse for the development of innovative services and applications, and for policymaking.

Under the control of Commission services, support will be provided to the ongoing Commission initiative launched on the common European Mobility data space, in particular on:

• making an inventory of existing data platforms and marketplaces (“data ecosystems”) which allow storage, processing or sharing of mobility and transport data. Bringing these initiatives together by mapping and providing a catalogue of transport data eco-systems, as well as describing the data types, data quality, related access conditions and (web) links.
• identifying gaps and overlaps of data currently covered (or not covered) by existing initiatives in view of possibly launching additional initiatives to cover such gaps.
• identifying common building blocks which could contribute to the long-term convergence of existing and new data-related initiatives in transport, serving private, public and industrial data sharing. Explore possible options for suitable sustainable frameworks for sharing, managing data exchange across existing and emerging data initiatives in the mobility sector. Include reflections on incentives schemes to motivate participants to provide data.
• identifying opportunities for integrating the mobility data space and/or data ecosystems in the emerging European data and cloud services infrastructure.

The awarded consortium will work in liaison with the Data Spaces Support Centre (see topic 2.2.2.1) and the Alliance for Industrial Data, Cloud and Edge, to ensure alignment with the European Data Spaces Technical Framework with and the rest of the ecosystem in section 2.2.1 thereof, notably concerning common tools such as:

• a data space reference architecture, building blocks, common toolboxes and cloud services;
• common standards, including semantic standards and interoperability protocols, both domain-specific and crosscutting;
• data governance models, business models and strategies for running data spaces, with the aim to recommend possible common tools, building on existing data ecosystems.

Outcomes and deliverables

• Inventory of existing platforms sharing data relevant for mobility
• An analysis regarding gaps and overlaps of data, and identifying potential common building blocks, feeding into the Commission preparatory work establishing the mobility data space.

The data space for smart communities will be subject to article 12(6) for the reasons already provided in section 2.2. The data space will offer among others data on the transport network and its use in real time. Data can reveal sensitive information about critical points including potential vulnerabilities, hence essential for the Union’s security.