After almost three years of intensive collaboration between the rail and aviation communities, the SESAR Integrated Passenger-Centric Planning of Multimodal Transport Networks (MultiModX) EU project is coming to a close. The project group is therefore pleased to present its final deliverables, together with a recap video summarising the project’s key messages and general vision. These materials represent the main legacy of the project and are now available on the MultiModX project website (www.multimodx.eu).
The publication of these outputs follows a series of important final milestones for MultiModX, including its participation in the SESAR Innovation Days in Slovenia, a dedicated debate at the European Parliament, and the organisation of the project’s final event. These occasions provided a valuable opportunity to present the project’s results, have discussions with stakeholders, and confirm the importance of MultiModX solutions for the future of long-distance multimodal passenger transport in Europe.
While a comprehensive white paper will shortly be published to further consolidate the project’s findings and recommendations, the other deliverables already provide a detailed and concrete insight into the solutions developed by the consortium. They reflect almost three years of continuous dialogue with professionals from the rail and aviation sectors, through both face-to-face meetings and online discussions, during which the project’s hypotheses and approaches were discussed and endorsed.
At MultiModX’s core are three complementary solutions addressing key challenges surrounding multimodal passenger transport. To facilitate readability, the main outputs made available to the community include:
- An integrated schedule design solution which explores how rail and air timetables can be better coordinated to improve connectivity, reduce transfer times, and make more efficient use of existing infrastructure capacity.
- A multimodal disruption management solution which focuses on how rail and aviation stakeholders can jointly anticipate, manage, and recover from disruptions, improving predictability, reliability, and the provision of information to passengers across modes of transport.
- A multimodal modelling and assessment framework which enable stakeholders to test scenarios and assess the impacts of operational and strategic choices from a passenger-centric, door-to-door perspective.
In addition, the project has developed the Multimodal and Passenger Experience Performance Framework and a number of open-source tools, designed to support the practical application, reuse, and further development of MultiModX’s results by the wider research and operational community.
Together, these deliverables demonstrate how closer cooperation between the rail and aviation sectors can contribute to a smarter and more resilient transport system. MultiModX is a SESAR Joint Undertaking project, co-funded by the European Union, and has been implemented by a multidisciplinary consortium comprising Nommon, the University of Westminster, the International Union of Railways (UIC), the Airport Regions Council, Bauhaus Luftfahrt, and the Technische Universität Dresden. By supporting better capacity allocation, easing congestion, and reducing the environmental impact of transport, MultiModX contributes to improved connectivity and enhanced door-to-door passenger journeys, while strengthening network resilience and the passenger experience.
Readers are invited to visit the MultiModX project website (https://multimodx.eu/) to access the final deliverables, the open source tools and performance KPIs, and to watch the recap videos presenting the project’s solutions and key messages, main results and vision for the future of multimodal passenger transport in Europe. The website also provides direct links to scientific publications already released by the consortium, with additional publications to be made available as they are published.
To stay informed about future updates and project-related news, readers are also encouraged to follow MultiModX on social media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/multimodx Twitter/X: https://x.com/MultiModX