How do we create a shared language for antifragile urban mobility research? Through a comprehensive ontology.
The AntifragiCity Ontology provides a semantic foundation for modelling antifragile, equitable, and data-intensive urban mobility systems. Building on structured requirements and concepts from project documentation and stakeholder inputs, the ontology formalises key entities, processes, events, states, and indicators related to disruptions, responses, socio-technical systems, governance, equity, and long-term learning.
A 12-class meta-model provides a stable upper structure, instantiated through modular components covering transport networks, social and equity aspects, environmental and climate stressors, governance and policy instruments, observations and KPIs, data provenance, and antifragility dynamics. Specified in OWL and designed for deployment as a knowledge graph, the ontology integrates with digital twins, multi-agent systems, and AI analytics.
Instantiation guidelines and illustrative use cases are provided for the pilot cities of Bratislava, Larissa, Odesa, and Thessaloniki.
(Pending approval from the European Commission)
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AntifragiCity is a Horizon Europe project rethinking urban mobility across Europe. Bringing together 13 partners in 8 countries, we are designing systems that don’t just recover, but adapt, improve, and grow stronger through disruption.
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