MobiDataSol - Smart Data Products for the Urban Mobility Transition via Ecosystem Data Governance in the Smart City Solingen

Data is an important key to sustainable urban mobility. Intelligently used and linked, they offer a huge opportunity: In the future, we can travel much more efficiently, in a more climate-friendly manner and also more comfortably - and at the same time measure the effects on the environment more directly in order to initiate measures to reduce environmental impacts or increase positive effects. In the urban data space, a large amount of information is available for this purpose. However, their combination has been technically, organizationally or legally difficult up to now, all data have had to be individually processed, quality-assured and brought together for each specific application. For this reason, cities need a functioning data ecosystem in order to be able to design high-quality data products providing support in tackling social challenges such as the transformation of mobility. Central to this are data trust models that enable the provision and sharing of data via standardised interfaces and ensure trust and data quality. The data ecosystem of a smart city comprises numerous organisations and extends far beyond the city's own boundaries. The MobiDataSol project aims to develop and test such data trust models by establishing a data ecosystem at the interface between smart cities and mobility on the one hand, and between municipalities and their municipal companies, science and business on the other. The nucleus for this ecosystem is the Klingenstadt Solingen, which has been funded by the German government as a Smart City model project since 2020, as well as the Morgenstadt Initiative organised by the Fraunhofer IAO, in which the Klingenstadt Solingen is involved.

The goal of the data ecosystem and thus of the project is to use data trust concepts to establish pioneers for the development of a cross-organizational network with the purpose of data curation and fiduciary data provision. Intelligent data products can be used in a wide variety of urban use cases in industry, economy and society, e.g. for CO2 inventories of transport activities in a city or individual actors (e.g. public transport operators). Data products should be kept up-to-date and be available via dynamic data services as well as via static repositories. First, various internal use cases in the Smart City Solingen, at ifeu and at Fraunhofer IAO will be considered, which deal with Smart City data and data services in the area of mobility and the environment. A range of use cases for business, civil society and research in the Solingen urban system will be elaborated and taken into account. Further use cases can follow, enabled by the ecosystem created. Another goal is to design the ecosystem, including the data trust model(s) and the resulting data products, in such a way that they can also be largely transferred to other municipalities in Germany. The project thus follows the BMBF's research agenda "Sustainable Urban Mobility". It is additionally supported by a discourse on the design of data trust concepts in an accompanying group of experts.