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DGT datasets to help improve traffic and road safety
04-04-2025
The General direction of traffic (DGT in its Spanish acronym) is the body responsible for ensuring safety and fluidity on the roads in Spain. Among other activities, it is responsible for the issuing of permits, traffic control and the management of...
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How Google, Moovit and Citymapper reuse open mobility data
09-10-2024
Many people use apps to get around in their daily lives. Apps such as Google Maps, Moovit or CityMapper provide the fastest and most efficient route to a destination. However, what many users are unaware of is that behind these platforms lies a valuable...
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Open Data for Sustainable City Development
03-08-2023
Open data is a valuable tool for making informed decisions that encourage the success of a process and enhance its effectiveness. From a sectorial perspective, open data provides relevant information about the legal, educational, or health sectors. All...
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Open data in transport and urban mobility research projects
20-09-2022
Open data portals are experiencing a significant growth in the number of datasets being published in the transport and mobility category. For example, the EU's open data portal already has almost 48,000 datasets in the transport category or Spain's own...
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The benefits of publishing open mobility data in cities
27-07-2021
Mobility is a key economic driver. Increasing the efficiency and quality of a country's mobility system contributes both to the strength of its economy and to improving the quality of life of its citizens. This is particularly important in the mobility...
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Artificial Intelligence and data: the revolution in the supply chain
19-05-2021
Artificial intelligence is transforming companies, with supply chain processes being one of the areas that is obtaining the greatest benefit. Its management involves all resource management activities, including the acquisition of materials,...
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Open data in the Spanish mobility strategy
27-04-2021
Open mobility data plays a key role in transforming current transport networks and systems, promoting their digitization and improving their sustainability and efficiency. The European Union is aware of this situation, and for this reason it has not only...
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Open data in the era of sustainable and smart mobility, according to European strategy
15-04-2021
More than two years ago we started 2019 very hopeful about the progress that was being made in Spain regarding the openness of data related to transport and mobility, after a few years in which there had not been much progress. Although there is still...
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2019, the year of open public transport data in Spain?
22-01-2019
When we think about the reasons for promoting open data policies, one of the main reasons that immediately comes to mind is the improvement of citizens' life quality. There are many areas where open data have shown a significant impact on improving our...