Call #8 Data Sharing for Smart Mobility Solutions

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Demand for mobility is growing steadily, while infrastructure expansion is limited. High-quality, accessible, and connectable mobility data is crucial for making more efficient use of existing passenger and freight transport capacities. Equally important is reliable data from related areas that provides information about necessary infrastructure and energy supply. Today, however, this data is often fragmented, difficult to access, and not harmonized, which slows down innovation. Blockchain and tokenization have the potential to close those gaps by incentivizing data sharing with token rewards, ensuring transparency and traceability in data exchange and automate access control and billing via smart contracts. Why it matters:The Swiss Federal Council wants to build a new national mobility data infrastructure (MODI). The platform aims to create a technical and organizational framework to ensure information flow on all aspects of transport and mobility in a sustainable, secure and commercial-free manner. The data shall be shared among infrastructure managers, transport companies, private sector providers and road users. This challenge allows us to identify new radical approaches that could benefit the development of the MODI platform in the future. MODI shall be based on the following principles: neutrality, independence, openness, voluntariness, participation, needs orientation, non-discrimination, transparency, reliability, and future viability. Furthermore, data owners should be able to decide which data is made available and to whom. To this end, the platform must be modular, decentralized, open source, data efficient and secure – all properties that are associated with blockchain technology. Key Questions This challenge aims to identify barriers and opportunities for incentivizing mobility data sharing while ensuring fair compensation for data providers, strong data protection, and data integrity. The goal is to foster a trusted and transparent environment for data-driven mobility applications. In this context, blockchain and tokenization are explored as potentially promising enabling technologies. Guiding questions include: Leading questions of the Challenge: ·       How can you incentivize the sharing of mobility data? ·       How can you ensure privacy-preserving use of the data? ·       How can you ensure and control differentiated access to data? ·       How can you improve collection of real-world data? ·       How can you improve reliability and traceability of mobility data? ·       How can existing mobility sharing applications (e.g. car or bike sharing) profit from blockchain technology to better integrate their service into the broader mobility (data) landscape? ·       How can blockchain use cases like payment tokens, shared ownership and usage rights contribute to better mobility data? ·       What blockchain-based use cases can be built on good quality and comprehensive mobility data? Challenge Goal The aim of this challenge is to identify barriers regarding sharing of mobility data, connect the most relevant stakeholders across mobility, data sharing and blockchain technology, and to foster collaboration that leads to actionable proof-of-concept applications and concrete reals-world use cases. HSLU and the IBNM aim to design, test, and validate Pilot-Project in real-world data sharing applications—showcasing the transformative potential of good quality and comprehensive data in the mobility context.

Challenge Metadata

• Challenge Name: Call #8 Data Sharing for Smart Mobility Solutions
• Date: 4/21/2026 9:20:10 AM
• Administrators:
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Challenge Description

Demand for mobility is growing steadily, while infrastructure expansion is limited. High-quality, accessible, and connectable mobility data is crucial for making more efficient use of existing passenger and freight transport capacities. Equally important is reliable data from related areas that provides information about necessary infrastructure and energy supply. Today, however, this data is often fragmented, difficult to access, and not harmonized, which slows down innovation.

Blockchain and tokenization have the potential to close those gaps by incentivizing data sharing with token rewards, ensuring transparency and traceability in data exchange and automate access control and billing via smart contracts.

Why it matters:
The Swiss Federal Council wants to build a new national mobility data infrastructure (MODI). The platform aims to create a technical and organizational framework to ensure information flow on all aspects of transport and mobility in a sustainable, secure and commercial-free manner. The data shall be shared among infrastructure managers, transport companies, private sector providers and road users. This challenge allows us to identify new radical approaches that could benefit the development of the MODI platform in the future.

MODI shall be based on the following principles: neutrality, independence, openness, voluntariness, participation, needs orientation, non-discrimination, transparency, reliability, and future viability. Furthermore, data owners should be able to decide which data is made available and to whom. To this end, the platform must be modular, decentralized, open source, data efficient and secure – all properties that are associated with blockchain technology.

Key Questions

This challenge aims to identify barriers and opportunities for incentivizing mobility data sharing while ensuring fair compensation for data providers, strong data protection, and data integrity. The goal is to foster a trusted and transparent environment for data-driven mobility applications. In this context, blockchain and tokenization are explored as potentially promising enabling technologies. Guiding questions include:

Leading questions of the Challenge:

·       How can you incentivize the sharing of mobility data?

·       How can you ensure privacy-preserving use of the data?

·       How can you ensure and control differentiated access to data?

·       How can you improve collection of real-world data?

·       How can you improve reliability and traceability of mobility data?

·       How can existing mobility sharing applications (e.g. car or bike sharing) profit from blockchain technology to better integrate their service into the broader mobility (data) landscape?

·       How can blockchain use cases like payment tokens, shared ownership and usage rights contribute to better mobility data?

·       What blockchain-based use cases can be built on good quality and comprehensive mobility data?

Challenge Goal

The aim of this challenge is to identify barriers regarding sharing of mobility data, connect the most relevant stakeholders across mobility, data sharing and blockchain technology, and to foster collaboration that leads to actionable proof-of-concept applications and concrete reals-world use cases. HSLU and the IBNM aim to design, test, and validate Pilot-Project in real-world data sharing applications—showcasing the transformative potential of good quality and comprehensive data in the mobility context.