The three-member team led by Professor Björn Niehaves, who heads the new Digital Public working group (www.uni-bremen.de/digital-public) at the University of Bremen, won over the jury with its innovative and academic concept paper entitled "MoveAI."

The goal of the University of Bremen's concept is to develop an analysis dashboard that can answer and graphically display the central question of the Urban Data Challenge using the innovative combination of statistical analyses, AI-based methods, and qualitative surveys. The results are to be made publicly available as a complete open-source solution.
The competition was announced in February by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg together with THE NEW INSTITUTE, a Hamburg-based think tank for science, technology, politics, and industry.
The University of Bremen will receive an implementation budget of 40,000 euros to develop a prototype for analyzing bicycle and micromobility flows on Hamburg's bicycle paths in close cooperation with the Hamburg Authority for Transport and Mobility Transition within the next three months.

The expansion of cycling is an important component of the urban transport transition. The University of Bremen, which has made sustainability its guiding principle, would like to use the concept to contribute to more climate-friendly mobility.

The press release (in German only): digital.hamburg.de/digitale-stadt/urban-data-challenge-684772