| Abstract | The strategic planning of air and rail networks and their management during the day of operations are required to develop successful multimodal networks between air and rail (with a particular focus on high-speed services). Coordinated networks and collaborative operations management are key to achieving useful passenger-centric air-rail multimodality. At the strategic level, inter-mode schedule synchronisation can reduce door-to-door travel times, reducing transfer times and increasing the appeal of these alternatives. The transport system can be more resilient by coordinating recovery operations and managing passengers' itineraries (e.g., re-booking and re-routing in case of missed connections). MultiModX provides a platform for evaluating strategic and tactical multimodal mobility operations, considering the joint operations of air and rail services. The Strategic Evaluator component enables the assessment of mobility across regions by evaluating flight schedules and rail timetables under different assumptions, such as: air and rail infrastructure (e.g., access/egress times, intra and inter-mode minimum connecting times), ticketing options (integrated ticketing), policies (e.g., CO2 taxes, flight bans), passengers demand and preferences. Mobility performance indicators can be extracted at different levels (region, infrastructure, operator) to support assessing the benefits of rail-air integration, including complementarity of air and rail services and the possible replacement of flights by rail. The Tactical Evaluator can simulate a day of operations, tracking individual passengers and their connections. Replanned networks that consider disruptions and mechanisms, such as fast-track processing for multimodal passengers at airports to deal with disturbances, can be assessed. Low-level passenger-centric indicators, e.g., missed connections and delays, can then be produced. In the final article, examples of these multimodal evaluations will be presented. |
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