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Mobility comes in various formats: on the road, in the air, on the rivers, and on rails \u2013 just to name a few. It is targeted either for commercial transport, for commuting or for leisure. And it is changing continuously. Not only did civilization move from the horses that once set the pace of traffic within limited range to high-speed links between urban hubs, countries and continents; today\u2019s shift is a rapid transition from the concept of individual human-controlled participants to a fully connected ecosystem that encompasses to a large extent automated and autonomous entities. We are witnessing a fundamental change of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this game is data-driven. Any advanced mobility concept relies on data about the environment within which it is acting \u2013 either as data collected up-front (e.g. maps) or as data entering the system on-the-fly (e.g. from sensors). Together, these data provide a digital replica of the world which they were collected from. And they do so for a given time, a given region and a given purpose only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of stakeholders participating in this game is rising. Public authorities and infrastructure operators are joined by vehicle manufactures, fleet operators, mobility-as-a-service providers and logistics companies as well as society itself with the interest in contributing to and participating in decision making. Some of these stakeholders already operate data lakes and a lot of them are generating new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a problem; the world out there comes as a single, discrete entity but its representation in terms of data comes in innumerable variants \u2013 sometimes for the same purpose. The idea of creating a digital twin of the world that can be used for enhancing mobility is stuck in the swamps of multiple, inconsistent representations of small fractions of it for targeted purposes only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s time for us, the GEONATIVES. Our mission as a think tank is to dry the swamp of data flows, data formats, tooling etc. and make it viable for efficient collaboration among the interested parties. To be honest, completely drying the swamp is near-impossible and might even not be necessary. But we can start by building paths across it that will help you navigate \u2013 and use \u2013 the possibilities efficiently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much for our motivation and the nice words and pictures around it. Here come the facts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our credo:<\/strong> A single world that is being navigated in different ways shall be represented by a single digital twin<\/em> that can be conditioned for different target applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This implies the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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