On 3 March, Mobility LAB Vitoria-Gasteiz and the Vitoria-Gasteiz Intermodal Transport Centre (CTV) held a conference in Jundiz entitled ‘From data to value at the Jundiz intermodal hub’, a working session with logistics agents aimed at better understanding their operations and how data spaces can make them more efficient and sustainable. Companies with different roles in this chain participated: Kaiku, Duvenbeck, Sibport and Grupo TT.

Iñaki Alonso, technical manager of the CTV, opened the conference by emphasising that this is an ‘important milestone’: “It seems complicated to understand the opportunity that data spaces represent for companies. Each one has its own know-how and way of operating. The word “sharing” always sounds scary, and the best way to open that door is by listening to companies.”

Iñigo Bilbao, director of Mobility LAB, explained the foundation’s work and how well-suited its context is to being a hub of innovation in logistics and mobility. Among its lines of work, Mobility LAB has already created a Data Space (MOVDATA), the first in the Basque Country in this sector, and has two use cases underway: DATADUM, focused on Last Mile Distribution, and DATALOG, focused on intermodal logistics. The three projects have been financed by the Next Generation Funds, through the Sectoral Data Space call for proposals.

To put the theory into practice, Andoni Martín, head of the Digital Transformation Unit at the Álava Computing Centre, explained to participants that a data space is an environment that enables the secure, federated exchange of data products between different actors. Sharing is carried out securely and under voluntary conditions defined by each participant, so that the Data Space guarantees trust, control and the creation of shared value.

Data sovereignty, aimed at ensuring that those who transfer data always know that it will be used for a specific purpose and no other, was one of the points that was most emphasised. Cybersecurity was also discussed in depth by Lorenzo Díaz de Apodaca, CEO of Cybertix, who addressed the European NIS2 directive.

Improving cybersecurity

This EU regulation, which is expected to be transposed in April, strengthens cybersecurity in Member States. Its aim is to improve the common level of security of networks and information systems in critical sectors. In this regard, Díaz de Apodaca commented that a data space can strengthen NIS2 compliance and the security of logistics ecosystems, a sector that suffered 24.6% of cyberattacks in Europe in 2024.

The rest of the session consisted of activities in which the participating companies explained their day-to-day operations, what information they exchange, what channels they use to do so, what decisions they make, how they communicate with other agents in the logistics chain, etc.

In this regard, Ana Lodeiro, Smart Cities Sales Manager at Libelium, showed participants various demos of the Iris360 platform, a technological solution based on a data space that offers a comprehensive view of the node. Lodeiro explained how this platform can be tailored to the real needs of each agent and based on the data they themselves share so that, in the future, it can be developed based on the Data Space promoted by Mobility Lab and the Álava Computing Centre. 

“Iris360 not only provides a comprehensive, real-time view of the hub, but is also the engine that enables the secure integration of heterogeneous data sources, ensuring technical interoperability and data sovereignty as defined by each operator,” explained Lodeiro. Lodeiro added that “Iris360 is the platform where logistics operators’ data is transformed into strategic value”. The platform is being adapted in a modular fashion to address the specific challenges faced by operators, ensuring that the DATALOG pilot is not merely a proof of concept, but the deployment of a real operational tool to validate and optimise the intelligent management of the intermodal hub ahead of a future roll-out. For the time being, pilot tests will be carried out in a controlled environment, in a proof-of-concept format, to validate its usefulness before any possible future deployment.

The objective of this conference with the agents who operate in the day-to-day intermodal logistics sector has been key: to understand how a comprehensive view of the node, which works thanks to the sharing of data from all logistics agents, can meet their needs, adapt to the information they require and offer more efficient, sustainable and connected intermodal logistics.

About DATALOG

The “DATALOG. Data for Intermodal Logistics” project is funded by the Secretariat of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence (SEDIA), as part of the “Sectoral Data Spaces” programme within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (Next Generation EU). Through data sharing, it aims to promote interoperability and intermodality in the field of logistics and support the transfer of goods from road to rail and ship, in line with European transport decarbonisation objectives and the Rail and Maritime Motorways projects (of which Jundiz and the nearby Port of Bilbao are priority hubs).