Development of a data governance model for the mobility sector in Switzerland

Mobility is changing rapidly around the world. Advances in mobility are being driven by technological developments, particularly electrification, automation and digitalization. These technologies not only enable electric, automated and connected vehicles, but above all new mobility services. Smart mobility solutions not only use pass data, but also generate new data themselves during operation. This raises various questions, such as who owns the data, how it is protected and whether, or under what conditions, interested third parties should be given access to this data - possibly through access rights. The project will address these questions in order to develop legal and technical data governance solutions for smart mobility offerings in Switzerland. The developed data governance model will be created and assessed taking into account the perspectives of different actors (citizen-, industry- and state-centered). The researches are therefore carried out in close exchange with various private stakeholders and platforms in the mobility sector as well as the public authorities involved.

The study was commissioned by the Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) and is being carried out by an interdisciplinary research team. This team passes from Rapp Trans AG, the Austrian Institute of Technology and the Faculty of Law at the University of Basel. The project team at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel consists of Prof. Dr. iur. Alfred Früh, RA, Prof. Dr. iur. Nadja Braun Binder, MBA and Robert Schibli, MLaw.