CARNET Showcases the i-MovE Project at the Presentation of Spain’s Integrated Mobility Data Space Strategy (EDIM)

On June 2, CARNET proudly participated in the official presentation of the Integrated Mobility Data Space Strategy (EDIM), hosted at the Ministry for the Digital Transformation and the Civil Service. Developed jointly by the General Directorate of Data through the Data Spaces Reference Center (CRED) and the General Secretariat for Sustainable Mobility (Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility), the EDIM strategy has recently been submitted for public consultation to pave the way for a more connected, efficient, and sovereign transport ecosystem in Spain.

The event gathered leading institutional figures and tech experts to discuss the future of mobility data. The event started with an institutional opening by Dª. Sara Hernández Olmo (General Secretary for Sustainable Mobility) and Dª. María González Veracruz (State Secretary for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence), followed by dedicated sessions on the EDIM strategy and its recent public consultation led by Tania Gullón Muñoz-Repiso and Cristina Blasco Latorre.

Round Table: Sharing Data to Generate Value

A key highlight of the day was the round table titled “Compartir datos, generar valor: el camino hacia el EDIM” (Sharing Data, Generating Value: The Path Towards EDIM), moderated by Ander Caneda Jorge from the General Directorate of Data.

CARNET was invited to join this panel to discuss our work on the i-MovE project. Laia Pagès, CARNET’s Research Director at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), shared the stage with other prominent sector leaders, including Soledad Pérez-Galdós (ITS España), Jaime Carnicero (FEMP), and Miguel Carpio (Grupo EYSA), to explore how cross-sectoral data cooperation can revolutionize European and national mobility.

The choice of i-MovE as a participant in this panel was no coincidence. As one of the pioneering and reference data spaces for mobility in Spain, the project perfectly embodies the core principles of the EDIM strategy. By demonstrating how data sovereignty, multi-sectoral collaboration, and secure architecture (such as the UPCxels framework) can be successfully implemented, i-MovE serves as a tangible, real-world benchmark. Its invitation highlights the initiative’s alignment with national goals to create a unified, sovereign, and value-driven data ecosystem that will shape the future of Spanish transport.

What is i-MovE? Unifying Data for Smarter Mobility

At CARNET, we take great pride in leading the Project Management of i-MovE, an initiative financed by the European Union’s NextGenerationEU fund through Spain’s Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan.

The i-MovE team is formed by four specialized research groups belonging to the UPC, combining expertise in mobility, transport, computer science, and data science. Operating as a direct use case of UPCxels, a multi-sectoral data space that guarantees data sovereignty, i-MovE aims to unify data from distinct sectors that traditionally do not cooperate. By combining these sources, the project creates a trusted ecosystem providing standardized, high-quality information to optimize mobility operations. Through this integration, participants can adopt diverse roles, such as data providers, consumers, intermediaries, or transformers, collaborating directly with public administrations, research centers, and private businesses.

Innovative Tools Developed by i-MovE

To mitigate the current sector challenges, such as high competition, limited data sharing, empty taxi runs, or localized over-saturation, the project combines multi-source data (including taxi trip histories, bus/metro fare validations, weather, major public events, and parking zone occupancy) to feed advanced tools categorized into two core areas:

1. Services for Individual Mobility Companies

Designed to improve the efficiency of taxi and ride-hailing operations through predictive models:

• • • • i-MovE Demand: Utilizes an ML model trained on historical travel records alongside real-time public/private APIs. It provides a real-time updated taxi demand heat map and tabular data broken down by zone and time slot, minimizing downtime for drivers.

• • • • i-MovE Operator: An inference engine that processes user operating preferences to calculate optimal working shifts and estimate potential daily revenues.

2. Services for Public Transport Organizations

Developed to improve city traffic management, coordinate operators, and resolve irregular passage intervals:

• • • • i-MovE Priority: Inference between real-time bus locations and static GTFS route mapping and traffic light phases. It runs a computational model to supply traffic controllers with a clear regularity strategy, ensuring buses maintain consistent passage intervals along their lines.

• • • • i-MovE Control: Solves complex routing issues by executing a Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) algorithm to compute ideal commercial speeds and fleet volumes. It outputs a fully geocoded GeoJSON file featuring precise route directions, alongside a comprehensive visual map displaying optimal line paths, stops, and localized traffic density.

Through our active project management of i-MovE and our strategic involvement in milestones like the EDIM presentation, CARNET continues to drive the technological innovation needed to shape tomorrow’s urban transportation landscape.