The seamless exchange of data plays a central role in making mobility and logistics in Europe more competitive, sustainable, smarter and resilient. The European Data Strategy of 2020 defined the strategic framework to create a single market for data and unlock its value for Europe’s economy and society. As part of this strategy, the common European mobility data space (EMDS) aims to provide the common technical and governance framework to facilitate the access, pooling and sharing of mobility data.
In this context, over the past years many initiatives have been started in the mobility and logistics domain to develop and test concepts and technologies. They have provided a lot of learning and insights but have not been sufficiently implemented and coordinated on a European scale. As a result, many local technical, governance and regulatory solutions are not focused on convergence and on the creation of a European sustainable digital infrastructure, allowing value creation through cross-border and cross-domain data exchange. Data in the mobility and logistics domain today remains largely fragmented and underexploited.
The Mobility and Logistics EDIC intends to play a pivotal role in addressing this fragmentation. The EDIC aims to take a leading role in driving the agreement on and implementation of common approaches and standards, to establish a sustainable digital infrastructure for Member States, businesses, public authorities, and other actors. As a focal point for coordination, alignment and implementation, the ambition of the EDIC will be to become the main instrument to establish a sustainable digital infrastructure within the EMDS. This document presents the EDIC’s key goals and principles.
What is an EDIC?
The European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC) is a mechanism to implement multi-country projects contributing to the EU’s Digital Decade objectives. EU Member States initiate the start and management of an EDIC. Thanks to a relatively swift set-up, a legal personality, and the possibility to combine different sources of funding, an EDIC is a well-suited type of organisation to ensure the sustainability of digital infrastructure and to contribute to the creation of the common European mobility data space.
10 Member States (MSs) are currently involved in the preparation of an EDIC focusing on mobility and logistics data: Austria, Germany, Finland, France, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Slovakia, and Spain. Additional Member States and over 30 private and public entities have expressed their interest.
For more information, please see the full Executive Summary here.