The „Urban Data for Sustainable Mobility Innovation“ Community of Practice is a practice-oriented learning network of several municipal representatives. In 2025, over a period of three-quarters of a year, it met regularly for workshops and peer consultations under the leadership of the Urban Digitainability Lab at the TUM Think Tank of the Technical University of Munich. The aim was to exchange ideas on challenges and needs related to data-based mobility innovations. Due to geographical diversity and different economic and urban profiles, a variety of perspectives and experiences were brought into the expert discussions – from major cities like Munich and Aachen to more regionally defined cities like Lindau or Fürstenfeldbruck.
As a final outcome of this exchange, within the scope of the MCube project Responsible Mobility Innovation and Experimentation (ReMIX) and in cooperation with the Urban Digitainability Lab at the TUM Think Tank of the Technical University of Munich, a publication has been created that contains both practical impulses for municipalities and policy options for the federal and state governments to shape data-driven mobility planning and improve the framework conditions for it.
In the spirit of „quick first steps,“ it names short-term and pragmatic measures for municipalities, for example, to begin the path toward data-based mobility planning – such as through clearly defined initial use cases, an overview of existing data, clear responsibilities for data issues, and simple participation and evaluation formats. So that these approaches have a long-term impact, federal and state governments should strengthen municipal collaborations and learning networks as well as institutionally promote cooperation between academia and municipal practice. At the same time, better conditions for data-based work are needed, for example, through shared data platforms, digital infrastructures, and integrated data strategies. The mobility transformation should also be understood as a joint societal and economic task that municipalities can support through planning security, innovation promotion, and stronger inter-municipal cooperation.
The publication thus primarily shows how municipal exchange and joint learning processes can contribute to advancing data-based mobility planning in a practical way and anchoring it long-term in municipal structures.
Develop the next mobility innovations for metropolitan regions. Together. Possible. To make it happen.
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What is MOSAIQ?
Imagine something: There is more space for people. The streets have more trees and plants. Everyone can get around better. That's how your Schwabing-West district could be in the future. How would you like your district to be? We want to talk to you about it!
The project is called MOSAIQ. MOSAIQ is a research∙project. MOSAIQ means: Mobility and urban climate in the future city∙part. The Technical University of Munich is leading the project.
What is MOSAIQ about?
MOSAIQ wants to make the streets in the city∙part more beautiful. People should feel comfortable there. There should be more space. For meetings and plants, for example. You can help decide what is tried out in the Stadt∙teil. The ideas come from you. Some ideas will be tried out on the streets for a certain period of time.
The aim of MOSAIQ is to make urban districts good places to live.
At the same time, the climate in the city should improve. And people should be able to move around the city easily.
What is happening in the district?
