The OMI (Open Mobility Infrastructure) project creates a digital infrastructure consisting of three human-technology interfaces and a middleware. Local players can provide shared mobility services themselves via a self-service portal, and users receive an app in the form of the mobility assistant, which offers seamless access to the region's entire mobility services and turns the smartphone into a digital vehicle key.

Project management at the H-BRS

The aim of the project is to develop an innovative, sustainable, land-saving, climate-protecting and environmentally friendly mobility system (continuous, barrier-free and safe means of transport). The project area extends in a tangential brace starting from Hennef (area DB station with connection: Cologne, Bonn: mobility hub A) via the towns of Neunkirchen (portal mobility station) and Seelscheid (portal mobility station) to Overath (area DB station with connection Cologne, Gummersbach: mobility hub B).

Project management at the H-BRS

In Germany, motorised private transport continues to dominate, although private vehicles remain unused for an average of 23 hours a day and there is a strong dependency, particularly in rural areas, due to a lack of alternatives. In his doctoral thesis, Paul Bossauer is investigating how new technologies such as blockchain can help to strengthen mobility services in rural areas and promote shared vehicle use.