The Smart Prague 2030 concept can answer some of these questions. The concept is based on the use of the latest technologies for transforming the capital to a better living space. The strategy of the city is ambitious: it fundamentally and structurally changes the city by means of time proven innovative technologies.
In the sector of smart mobility, the city-owned company Operator ICT has developed a mobile application, called My Prague that offers to residents and visitors either static city information or dynamic data such as data from traffic cameras. The cooperation with ride-hailing and bike-sharing companies allows extending provided information.
The city plans to develop a multimodal planner that will be based not only on simple data visualisation on the map but also on data integration. According to users’ preferences, the multimodal planner will combine the conventional means of transport with the ride-hailing and bike-sharing services. In the final phase, the user will be able to plan, order and pay for different mobility services in the capital and its surroundings through only one system.
The service providers get raw data from individual vehicles. The data that is shared with Operator ICT is provided in the form of aggregated data that shows the location of all parked vehicles. Providers currently do not share the location of vehicles during the whole operation time, but only when they are prepared to be used by a new client. Operator ICT can use data exclusively for the application content. Therefore, it is not permitted to share the data with third parties nor to store the data in the long term and to further analyse them. The data is transmitted through a standard representational state transfer (REST) interface. The city data platform Golemio then processes it while the app My Prague accesses the data directly from the platform.
Thanks to this collaboration, users and travellers have easier access to the location data of competing services and can easily decide which shared vehicle they will use. Service providers can take the opportunity to reach a wider target group of residents and visitors thanks to the additional communication channel. The city of Prague benefits from the increasing level of public awareness of car-sharing/bike-sharing services and from the potential reduction of citizen-owned vehicles. Finally, Operator ICT can better plan and develop new projects related to city mobility (multimodal planner) thanks to relevant experience with data sharing.