Data as an asset: EMT open platform for transport data in Madrid

EMT Madrid (Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid S.A.) is at the forefront of Intelligent Transport Systems and Customer Information Systems use. On this regard, EMT adopted an active open data policy back in 2006, and developed also a new open data portal in 2011, which has allowed us to innovate and improve user’s information, letting third parties to develop apps and services specifically oriented to users.
Furthermore, at EMT we have developed an open and standard platform (framework) with the purpose of building applications and developing services, that allows the subscription and events exchange system for mobility data in the context of Smart Cities, including Internet of Things and MAAS.
The main achievement has been to allow the unification under one single infrastructure of the different elements that handle the information on traffic and transport in the city. It has been developed in a quite innovative way as well, as a mobility lab has been created in order to work on this topic.