Data-informed Mobility Governance

Digitalisation has generated a wealth of data on transport services, activities, behaviours, offers, infrastructure, and traffic conditions. For governments, improving how they access and use this data plays an important part in meeting their objectives, both at the national and local levels. 

To ensure that transport policy decisions ultimately serve the public good, policy makers must gain the best possible understanding of their impacts. This, in turn, requires evidence based on accurate data – among other things. Such transport data can help public authorities capture and understand these policy-relevant phenomena, how they interact with their public policy objectives, and help regulate mobility services for better outcomes.

This report explores best practices regarding the collection and use of data and evidence to inform policy decisions. In a time when trust in public authorities is eroding, this report looks at how public authorities can foster public trust in their actions by implementing trust mechanisms at the various stages of the data lifecycle.