Review of Data Governance Approaches in the Field of Transportation Domain

Within the activities of planning, organizing, or regulating traffic, a considerable amount of various traffic data is actively used. For responsible data-based decision-making, the quality of the utilized data is crucial. However, defining the specifics of this quality and establishing procedures for its control is often ambiguous. The primary objective of the research was to review methods for ensuring or managing data quality within the transportation environment. Building on the collected information, a practical data governance approach was delineated to be applied to specific transportation data. Simultaneously, data from detectors and floating vehicles on the highway network in the Czech Republic were analyzed for the same reason. The results show that the chosen data governance approaches are applicable to transportation data, even in the task of evaluating data quality in the detail of individual dimensions. In the context of semantic data quality control, it is necessary to explore additional suitable tools, such as the use of statistical models, to reliably distinguish real errors or otherwise reduced data quality from genuinely truthful values, such as traffic conditions.