The KielRegion in collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Schleswig-Holstein, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), aconium and the University of Oldenburg is developing a data strategy and data governance for the existing regional Data Hub around mobility and transport data, with the focus on fan mobility.
The infrastructure is already present and quite advanced in its range of public data. The partners will further include public and private stakeholders such as local administrations as well as transport companies, functioning as data providers and data users.
What is the challenge?
The Data for All partners are facing the following challenges:
The data provided is largely gathered by state-owned public transport providers. To add to this, due to a lack of programmatic and governance clarity data sovereignty of the public sector is at best only partially given or only slightly exploited.
These range from private transport, lendable bicycles and e-scooters to public buses and ferries. These mobility options are supported by various smart and digital components, such as real-time parking information or multi-modal real-time schedules.
New applications that use the existing systems in new and innovative ways have to manually integrate access operations and data schemas for these systems. This requires considerable effort for each new application and represents a major impediment for new developments.
Often, legal and organizational changes are costly and lengthy. Furthermore, the different responsibilities of federal, state and local governments are often not well described. The necessary knowledge and information on the subject are not widespread enough, public pressure to make these changes is yet only small.
There is a lot of commuter traffic via car. This is partially due to the fact that so far there has been little public attention and or interest to the underlying issues and problems of sustainable mobility. Participation opportunities are only partially available.
What will the pilot be about?
The pilot partners agreed on a specific use case in the city and region of Kiel to advance regional fan mobility. This use case focuses on the mobility surrounding the local football stadium of Holstein Kiel, a key venue that attracts significant crowds from across the state of Schleswig-Holstein. The stadium's central role as a major transportation hub made it a compelling choice for piloting data-driven mobility solutions, as it significantly impacts mobility patterns within the city and the broader region.
One of the most practical applications of the Smart Bike System in Kiel is improving the logistics management of the regional rental bike system. Rental bikes play a crucial role in promoting sustainable urban mobility, but their effectiveness depends on ensuring that bikes are available where and when users need them. By leveraging AI-driven demand prediction models, the project aims to optimize the placement of rental bikes across stations, reducing bottle-necks and enhancing user satisfaction.
To achieve this, the pilot team continues to define new, more practically-oriented use cases. Discussions are also underway about conducting a comprehensive needs analysis for Kiel’s rental bike system. Such an analysis would provide valuable insights into user behaviour, operational challenges, and opportunities for service improvement. The goal is to create a smarter, more responsive bike-sharing system that aligns with the city’s broader mobility objectives.
Participating partners
Provides all necessary resources for the development of an interoperability concept, apply concept to use cases, contact relevant stakeholders and partners.
Generates awareness, inform, open discourse and provide educational opportunities with a special focus on socio-political, ethical and regulatory issues.
The University of Oldenburg functions as a research partner for the planned interoperability concept as well as for the query approach.
The DLR functions as a research partner providing overview on status quo in relevant fields and providides accordance of interoperability concept to Gaia-X standards.
aconium has a supervising role for the pilot management and partner activities. Furthermore, they will provide the partnership with support in content.