Emmett: The plat­form for data-dri­ven mobil­i­ty in Ger­many goes online

The Emmett com­mu­ni­ca­tion and net­work­ing plat­form goes online today on the occa­sion of the Euro­pean Open Data for Smart Mobil­i­ty Con­fer­ence 2020 (ODSMC). The con­fer­ence is part of the pro­gram of the Ger­man EU Coun­cil Pres­i­den­cy. It focus­es on the poten­tial of data as a cen­tral dri­ver of inno­va­tion for sus­tain­able and effi­cient mobil­i­ty 4.0. Emmett ties in pre­cise­ly here and offers both an overview of cur­rent data-dri­ven mobil­i­ty projects in Ger­many and a plat­form for net­work­ing sci­ence, busi­ness and pol­i­tics, which is con­tin­u­al­ly being expand­ed with new func­tions.

“Emmett is our show­case into the mobil­i­ty of the future. Through net­work­ing we want to cre­ate syn­er­gies with­in the sec­tor and at the same time spark enthu­si­asm for data-dri­ven mobil­i­ty solu­tions through new for­mats. After all, to drive for­ward the mobil­i­ty of the future, we need both: research and devel­op­ment — but also the nec­es­sary open­ness of peo­ple,” explains Andreas Scheuer, Fed­er­al Min­is­ter of Trans­port and Dig­i­tal Infra­struc­ture.

Emmett is the first plat­form to focus sole­ly on the cross-indus­try and cross-modal top­ics of data-dri­ven mobil­i­ty — from road to rail and from water to air. The plat­form aims to arouse enthu­si­asm for mobil­i­ty and data: In research papers, edi­to­r­i­al con­tri­bu­tions, pod­casts and data visu­al­iza­tions, tech­no­log­i­cal and data-dri­ven appli­ca­tions become com­pre­hen­si­ble and under­stand­able for every­one. In addi­tion, con­crete use cases are used to report on chal­lenges and solu­tions for dig­i­tal mobil­i­ty appli­ca­tions and prod­ucts.
The find­ings of the mFUND projects as well as freely acces­si­ble infor­ma­tion and data are used as a basis and the sus­tain­able ben­e­fits of the projects for soci­ety, the envi­ron­ment and the econ­o­my are high­light­ed.

Emmett is ini­ti­at­ed by the inde­pen­dent think tank iRights.Lab, which has been imple­ment­ing a project on data gov­er­nance in mFUND since 2017 and the mFUND accom­pa­ny­ing research since 2020. Over the next few years, Emmett will devel­op var­i­ous dig­i­tal and inter­ac­tive for­mats to bring togeth­er dis­cus­sion part­ners from mFUND and the mobil­i­ty sec­tor. “The new inde­pen­dent plat­form looks at the topic of mobil­i­ty of the future from the per­spec­tive of soci­ety as a whole. Data-dri­ven inno­va­tions are a glob­al key to our soci­ety. Tech­ni­cal and dig­i­tal rev­o­lu­tions often start very small. At emmett.io we look at hun­dreds of approach­es to pre­cise­ly this. It is a spec­tac­u­lar jour­ney into the future,” says Philipp Otto, Direc­tor of the iRights.Lab.

The future of mobil­i­ty is becom­ing increas­ing­ly indi­vid­u­al­ized and every­one can decide for them­selves when, how and where they want to go. Shap­ing a future-proof mobil­i­ty is an enor­mous task. It has to be eco­log­i­cal­ly and eco­nom­i­cal­ly sus­tain­able as well as geared to people’s needs. In order for Ger­many to fur­ther strength­en its inter­na­tion­al per­for­mance and inno­va­tion capa­bil­i­ty, open dis­cus­sion and coop­er­a­tion with­in the indus­try is nec­es­sary. Emmett pro­motes this dis­course on its plat­form and calls for Ger­many to help shape the future of mobil­i­ty.

About Emmett
Emmett is an open com­mu­ni­ca­tion and net­work­ing plat­form for data-dri­ven mobil­i­ty projects, ini­ti­at­ed and imple­ment­ed by the inde­pen­dent think tank iRights.Lab. The plat­form offers an overview and insight into the projects of the research ini­tia­tive mFUND (Moder­nitäts­fonds) of the Fed­er­al Min­istry of Trans­port and Dig­i­tal Infra­struc­ture (BMVI). Emmett serves the net­work­ing and exchange of infor­ma­tion between busi­ness, sci­ence and pol­i­tics as well as all project par­tic­i­pants and inter­est­ed cit­i­zens. The plat­form pro­vides a cross-sec­toral insight into cur­rent research and devel­op­ment of inno­v­a­tive mobil­i­ty in Ger­many.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion is avail­able at www.emmett.io, Twit­ter, LinkedIn.

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Mohamed Hamzé
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