NeMo.bil meets Robert Habeck
Last Friday, the NeMo.bil Shuttle (INYO Mobility GmbH) confidently presented itself on Paderborn's town hall square - among the curious visitors was Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Robert Habeck as part of his summer trip. The BMWK-funded NeMo.bil project, in which the DLR Institute for AI Safety and Security is also involved, was presented at the information event, including the development and scaling of mobility infrastructures as a market basis.
The subsequent expert discussion in Paderborn's town hall focused on the particular need for mobility in rural areas. The swarm-based NeMo.bil approach has a lot to offer in terms of revolutionizing this with autonomous and connected passenger shuttles. The focus here is on on-demand mobility - i.e. a service that is available individually and on demand instead of fixed and only by timetable - and the consideration of how this can be offered throughout Germany. These are challenges that can only be solved through the comprehensive digitalization of the mobility system.
This closes the circle to other activities of the DLR Institute for AI Safety and Security in the area of data and service ecosystems. The cooperation with BaseX, the central project result of the Gaia-X 4 Future Mobility project family, is particularly relevant here. Base-X enables continuity and makes NeMo.bil fit for practice. The expert panel has summarized its solutions for the transformation of public mobility in a position paper and submitted it to the Federal Minister.
The expert discussion was chaired by Robert Habeck and attended by: Christoph Rüther (District Administrator of Paderborn), Jonathan Behm (Neue Mobilität Paderborn e.V.), Frank Köster (German Aerospace Center e.V.), Marcus Zwick (INYO Mobility GmbH, consortium leader NeMo. bil), Mario Nowack (Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe, Project Manager ABSOLUT), Michael Walther (Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Transport NRW), Michael Dreier (Mayor of Paderborn), Norika Creuzmann (Member of Parliament NRW) and Dr. Stephan Melzer (msg global solutions). Ernst Stöckl-Pukall and Stefan Heidemann from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Action (BMWK) provided expert support.