Data space for mobility (deployment) -

Outcomes and deliverables

• Digitized processes allowing the public sector and businesses to access a larger pool of high quality data on urban mobility.
• Cities and public transport authorities will make use of compiled data to identify deficiency areas where additional action may be required, to track progress towards set policy goals, and to evaluate the effectiveness and overall impact of urban mobility policies.
• Industry, in particular SMEs, will benefit from larger sets of data to broaden their offers in terms of products and services.
• Improved monitoring/measuring the change of emissions eventually leading to increased environmental performance.

The objective is to contribute to the further development of the common European mobility data space announced in the Data Strategy and 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 based on 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 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.

The awarded project(s) will make information available and accessible in a machine-readable format in order to allow building a large amount of accurate and reliable data that could be used inter alia for artificial intelligence. It will have the following tasks and characteristics:

• support sustainable urban mobility planning and management by making available and accessible in machine-readable format data for EU sustainable urban mobility indicators, such as greenhouse gas emissions, congestion, commuting travel times and modal split in line with the EU definition and methodology.
• make traffic and travel information at urban level available and accessible in a machine-readable format in line with Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Directive 2010/40/EU and in particular the Delegated Regulation 2015/962 on real-time traffic information services and delegated regulation 2017/1926 on multimodal travel information services.

Project(s) will have to demonstrate a clear European dimension and should involve at least cities or regions in three different eligible countries (i.e. Member States or Associated countries) sharing common objectives. Projects will have to be closely integrated and use common building blocks. Where relevant, data shall be made accessible through National Access Points set up under the ITS Directive (2010/40/EU).

The projects selected will also have to fully comply with the European Data Spaces Technical Framework. They can profit from and use the smart middleware platform and tools. They will also have to coordinate and collaborate with other projects participating in the deployment of the data space and the Data Spaces Support Centre in order to allow integration of existing standards and to ensure interoperability and portability across infrastructure, applications and data.

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