The KielRegion in collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Schleswig-Holstein, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), aconium and the University of Oldenburg will develop a data strategy and data governance for the existing regional Data Hub around mobility and transport data, with the focus on bicycle mobility.
The infrastructure is already present and quite advanced in its range of public data. However, private companies have so far only marginally been included. Any endeavours will therefore focus on how to further include public and private stakeholders such as local administrations as well as transport companies, functioning as data providers and data users. Simultaneously, data-based use cases with concrete options for citizen participation shall be developed.
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 main objective of the pilot is to develop an interoperability concept as a technical and governance-related methodology for the KielRegion to harvest and provide access to heterogeneous Smart Region data in an integrated way. It should consist of proposals regarding the technical infrastructure for data integration and access, as well as recommendations for legal and organisational framework conditions.
This concept is to be applied ideally to multiple use cases within the KielRegion and will be implemented over the course of the next two years. To foster its quality and to improve interaction with citizens and other local stakeholders, the pilot will be actively promoted and driven forward by citizen participation activities. Furthermore, the pilot aims and fostering and optimising the bicycle usage in the region.
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.
