As Neovendi, we are very proud and happy to have received this special honour as a strong and competent team in cooperation with our consortium partners DB Netz AG, DB Systel GmbH and Mainz University of Applied Sciences. In a festive ceremony, the Federal Minister Dr Volker Wissing described the MINOS project as being a "lighthouse project". The MINOS project will provide a data service that will enable emergency crews to predict with enough time in advance whether the emergency vehicles will find an open or closed crossing when they reach the level crossing. Emergency services can thus optimise their route planning in an innovative way in order to be able to reach emergency locations as efficiently as possible. With this research project, we attempt to make digital railway infrastructure data accessible and usable for the public in order to improve safety and traffic flow at level crossings. In this project, many positive benefits could be tested and utilised at a point of intersection for various road users.