Bengaluru: Instead of allowing mobility-related data to remain stacked separately, it is prudent to use the same efficiently to find solutions aimed at decongesting Bengaluru roads, experts said at the Mobility Symposium 2026 organised by Move in Sync in the city Thursday.Experts pointed to the data generated by different public transport utilities and suggested organisations adopt an open approach that would help a non-tech-savvy person commute faster.Sreenivas Bhandari, vice president, Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), a central govt-backed initiative, stated that even a city bus service provides a significant amount of data. “There’s historical data, Automatic Vehicle Location System (AVLS) tracking data and the passenger information system. Let’s take the data, marry it, build an intelligence and give it to the open network, so that any end customer, who may not be a tech savvy, can also use it,” Bhandari said.While acknowledging the significant number of AI and tech startups in Karnataka, Ashwin Mahesh, founder of LVBL Accelerator, an urban planning firm, stated that these companies should work for the state instead of merely selling their products and services.He also argued that most mobility innovations are focused on apps which are not useful for half the population now. “Everything should adhere to the social and political scenarios. Otherwise, technical solutions wouldn’t help,” he said, drawing an example from Bengaluru’s bus priority lane, which no longer exists.
