Public Safety is vital for the functioning of societies: Without safety there is no freedom, no happiness, and no prosperity. The public good of safety matters to all of us, and therefore needs to be jointly shaped and maintained by all societal partners. Data generated by multiple agents play an increasingly important role in the prevention, preparedness and mitigation of harm or disaster. The development of an ecosystem of trust regarding AI assisted public safety promotion is central to this ELSA Lab application. In a variety of use cases benefits and safeguards are analyzed against the private-public-machine agency backdrop.

Freight transport is one of the major causes of CO2 emissions and congestion globally. For the past thirty years, policy attempts and research initiatives have been carried out to create modal shift to rail and waterborne transport. However, we still experience a system that is predominantly truck-based, and that does not exploit the full potential of the well-connected network and the deployed capacity. By aligning business models, operations, regulations, behavioural incentives, data management, and AI, we lead the transition to a sustainable and fair “matching platform” for composite services, defined as Freight Mobility as a Service (FMaaS).

Rotterdam mainport offers employment to numerous people, like crane operators, boatmen and dockers. Yet, it also offers work to drug collectors and human smugglers who are connected to internationally operating criminal networks. In FORT-PORT, businesses, government organisations, and leading academics collaborate to prevent cocaine trafficking, human smuggling and corruption in and around Rotterdam mainport in an intelligent and predictive way, now and for the future. FORT-PORT connects with the mainport, the city, and the international port network and thus contributes to the development of an economically prosperous, safe, resilient, and therefore future-proof mainport and increases societal resilience against subversive crime.

We challenge the assumption that criminal involvement of specific ethnic minorities is the result of poverty and poor integration and question whether this involvement is the source of local conflicts. Criminal activities can be interpreted as an expression of resistance against dominant society and as attractive means to acquire a certain (luxurious) lifestyle. Research in two neighbourhoods on interactions between criminal networks, local ethnic groups and global linkages will provide an-swers as to whether and how criminal involvement of immigrants leads to conflicts within their group, influences the group?s integration into Dutch society and fuels conflicts in the broader com-munity.

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