The climate emergency, air pollution, and our dependence on foreign fossil fuels are all reasons driving our vision of mobility to evolve towards a more intelligent and sustainable model. Consequently, new modes of transport have emerged in recent decades, such as electric vehicles and car-sharing. Furthermore, our very need for mobility has changed, particularly with the development of teleworking, social networks, and e-commerce. Transport services have therefore had to diversify and adapt to our needs. Among other things, they now allow us to optimise our travel thanks to relevant mobility services.

Indeed, we can now travel to work after determining, thanks to a mobile application, the optimal sequence of transport modes given the desired arrival time. We also sometimes receive notifications and recommendations for alternative transport on days when pollution is too high, in order to limit the environmental impact of our travel. These applications offering real-time mobility services rely, among other things, on the availability of data from transport operators, allowing for real-time prediction, optimisation and tracking of a route.

The Smart cities cities like Nice offer access to various transport and climate data, which is then exploited by mobility service providers to facilitate citizen transport.

Addressing the interoperability challenges between data and services for smart and sustainable mobility

Despite the large quantity of data and services offered in recent years, difficulties remain as each city and mobility stakeholder publishes data using different formats or models, complicating the task for multimodal mobility solution providers. Consequently, these stakeholders must adapt their systems to the data formats of each city, otherwise their service will not be accessible to citizens.

So there is still some way to go to improve interoperability between the services offered in European cities or regions. To meet this challenge, the European GreenMov project has been launched. The project aims to harmonise data models related to the environment and mobility, and to develop intelligent and sustainable mobility services that can be applied to any European city. Although the city of Nice is already ahead of the game in terms of data interoperability, recent technical developments are pushing the metropolitan area's stakeholders and IMREDD to be proactive and to implement the standards of tomorrow already.

Benefits for cities, citizens and the environment

The technological bricks developed as part of the GreenMov project will thus enable this interoperability, which will lead to reduced costs for users, openness to innovative solutions adapted to local areas, an increase in service offerings to reduce the environmental impact of our mobility, and increased citizen satisfaction. Indeed, by opening up and adding links between data, this project will contribute to the creation of new solutions for decarbonised mobility.

The role of IMREDD in GreenMov

IMREDD's main role in the GreenMov project is to support the pilot projects in the participating areas: Nice Côte d'Azur Métropole (France), the Flemish Region (Belgium), and Murcia/Molina de Segura (Spain). IMREDD is also involved in improving existing data models to include green mobility aspects. It will also contribute to defining and implementing smart services for green mobility using artificial intelligence techniques applied to these data models and user needs.

Finally, IMREDD coordinates mobility stakeholders and institutions working on the environment theme (local authorities, service providers, technology providers, researchers) in order to create a compendium of knowledge and best practices on the interoperability of data related to mobility and the environment in Europe.

GreenMov: A European project for green and sustainable mobility

The GreenMov project is funded by the European Commission under the Connecting Europe Facilities (CEF) programme. It was launched in September 2021, for a duration of 24 months. The consortium includes local authorities, companies, and research centres from four EU member states:

France

Atos Project owner

Université Côte d'Azur – IMREDD

MT3

Spain

HOPU

Local councils Murcia and Molina de Segura

Belgium

imec

Digital Flanders

Germany

FIWARE Foundation

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