A vast amount of real-time data is collected by sensors and devices and processed in data centres using cloud computing, Big Data, and AI. To fully leverage this data within secure digital infrastructures, effective governance is needed to enable sharing, reuse, and interoperability across organizations. MobiSpaces is a Research and Innovation Action that targets optimising data spaces for mobility data, by optimising the complete data path from data acquisition to data processing and data analytics. The aim is to develop a mobility-aware and mobility-optimized platform that addresses the full lifecycle of data, by enabling secure and trustworthy data sharing and exchange for mobility data. Towards this goal, MobiSpaces contributes to the design of future mobility data spaces by (i) offering data governance services for mobility data for data providers, (ii) supporting data consumers via advanced data analysis services, (iii) providing these services in a data spaces compliant way, (iv) in a trusted environment that takes into account the architectural blueprint of data spaces. Key results include the delivery of a data governance framework for mobility data validated in urban and maritime scenarios, a data operations toolbox that comprises multiple and diverse data management solutions for mobility data focusing on declarative querying, an edge analytics suite that encompasses multiple algorithms for edge analytics, federated learning, explainable AI and visual analytics. Notably, in combination with data-related operations, MobiSpaces exploits edge computing technology to process mobility data near the sources of data collection, while also targeting effective resource allocation in multi-cluster environments, making it possible to efficiently deploy dynamic pipelines of mobility-related processing components. The outcome is innovative tools and techniques for building a robust and sustainable ecosystem for the full lifecycle of mobility data — from acquisition to AI-driven analysis —ensuring secure, interoperable, and reusable mobility data that contributes to the vision of European data spaces.
