iRights.Lab launches Emmett: Germany’s platform for data-driven mobility goes online

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iRights.Lab launches Emmett: Germany’s platform for data-driven mobility goes online

  • Emmett is an open communications and networking platform for data-driven mobility, created and implemented by the independent iRights.Lab think tank.
  • The platform provides insight into projects supported by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure’s (BMVI) Modernitätsfonds (mFUND) research initiative.
  • Emmett facilitates networking and dialogue within and between the academic, business and policy sectors, as well as with the general public, and promotes conversation around the topic of the future of mobility.

Communications and networking platform Emmett goes online today as a part of the European Open Data for Smart Mobility Conference 2020 (ODSMC). The conference is part of the program associated with Germany’s EU Council presidency. It focuses on data’s potential as a key driver of innovation for sustainable and efficient smart mobility. With the conference as its launching event, Emmett offers an overview of current data-driven mobility projects in Germany and serves as a networking platform for the research, business and policy sectors that will be expanded to include further functions on an ongoing basis.

“Emmett is our window onto the mobility of the future. We aim to use networking tools to create synergies within the sector while kindling enthusiasm for data-driven mobility solutions by presenting information in new ways. In order to push the mobility of the future forward, we need both research and development – but we also need open minds,” said Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Infrastructure Andreas Scheuer.

Emmett is the first platform to focus solely on the cross-sectoral and multimodal themes related to data-driven mobility – from roads to rail, from waterways to air transport. The platform aims to inspire enthusiasm for mobility and data. By providing research papers, journalistic articles, podcasts and data visualisations, the platform helps make technological and data-driven applications understandable and accessible to everyone. It also uses specific case studies to report on the challenges and solutions associated with digital mobility applications and products.

To do so, it draws on the results of mFUND projects as well as other freely accessible information and data, and highlights the projects’ sustainable benefits for society, the environment, and the economy.

Emmett was created and implemented by the independent iRights.Lab think tank, which has been engaged in a data-governance project with mFUND since 2017, and has produced additional accompanying research for mFUND since earlier this year. In the coming years, Emmett will develop a variety of digital and interactive presentation formats designed to bring together key individuals from mFUND and the broader mobility sector. “The new independent platform looks at the topic of the mobility of the future across society as a whole. Data-driven innovation is a global key to our society’s future. Technical and digital revolutions often start small. On emmett.io, we take an exacting look at hundreds of approaches, looking for precisely this potential. It is a spectacular journey into the future,” said iRights.Lab Director Philipp Otto.

The future of mobility is becoming increasingly individualised. This means that every person can decide for themselves when, how, and where they are going. Shaping a mobility sector able to meet the requirements of the future is a huge task. The sector must be both ecologically and economically sustainable, and remain suited to people’s actual needs. If Germany is to deepen its international competitiveness and increase its innovative capability, the sector must engage in open discussion and cooperation. Emmett facilitates this discourse on its platform and invites others to help shape the future of mobility.

About Emmett
Emmett is an open communications and networking platform for data-driven mobility, created and implemented by the independent iRights.Lab think tank. The platform provides an overview of and insight into projects supported by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure’s (BMVI) Modernitätsfonds (mFUND) research initiative. Emmett facilitates networking and dialogue between members of the business, research and policymaking communities, as well as all project participants and interested citizens. The platform allows users to explore the latest in German R&D on innovative mobility across the industry.


Press contact
Mohamed Hamzé
Tel: +49 (0) 30 403 677 255
presse@emmett.io

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