ATM application-oriented Research for Multimodality and Passenger Experience

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

SESAR Joint Undertaking

Programme Description

Η κοινή επιχείρηση SESAR 3 είναι μια θεσμοθετημένη ευρωπαϊκή εταιρική σχέση μεταξύ εταίρων του ιδιωτικού και του δημόσιου τομέα που δημιουργήθηκε για να επιταχύνει μέσω της έρευνας και της καινοτομίας την παράδοση του Ψηφιακού Ευρωπαϊκού Ουρανού.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA2-6

Call

ATM application-oriented Research for Multimodality and Passenger Experience

Summary

The SESAR 3 JU has identified the following innovative research elements that could be used to achieve the expected outcomes. Proposals for work on areas other than those listed below are welcome, provided they include adequate background and justification to ensure clear traceability with the R&I needs set out in the SRIA for the multimodality and passenger experience flagship.

Detailed Call Description

  • Future airport business model. This research is about how the airport business model of the future is expected to evolve in terms of adjustments to emerging/changing passenger requirements, airline business models and integrating new procedural requirements (R&I need: access to / exit from the airport: airports are obvious multimodal nodes for aviation).
  • Multimodal governance. This element covers the governance and standards to facilitate coordination between modes of transport in a multimodal environment; the need for regulation to ensure a level playing field for service providers, preventing market dominance or uncompetitive pricing from limited providers and not limiting market access for others; and multimodal trip pack creation and corresponding insurance. In addition, there is a need to investigate ensuring that security policies for air and other modes of transport (e.g. rail) are complementary, especially considering the importance of reducing administrative burdens (R&I need: access to / exit from the airport: airports are obvious multimodal nodes for aviation).
  • Multimodal decision-making tools. This research covers the development of decision support systems for intermodal solutions to manage systems at tactical and/or strategic level (e.g. collaborative optimisation of passenger or goods flows across a multimodal transport chain, optimal use of available capacity) (R&I need: access to / exit from the airport: airports are obvious multimodal nodes for aviation).
  • Advanced techniques for passenger flow prediction. This element is aimed at developing advanced predictive models to anticipate the evolution of an airport’s passenger flows within the day of operations and assess the operational impact on both airport processes and the ground transport system, with the aim of enabling real-time CDM between airports and ground transport stakeholders and enhanced passenger information services (R&I need: passenger experience at the airport).
  • Traveller behaviour analysis, modelling and simulation. This element investigates the need for new/different big data sources for the analysis of multimodal travel behaviour (including requirements for integrated, private data management, so that all service providers can sell capacity into an integrated booking system but retain their own supply privacy), the need for better representation of multimodal trips in transport and traffic simulation models, the integration of commercially sensitive data from air and ground transport operators into passenger demand models (through, for example, federated ML models) and the impact of the shift from feeder flights to other modes of transport (environment, door-to-door time, better resource allocation, freeing up airport slots, etc.).
  • Passenger travel behaviour and requirements. This research covers the factors affecting passenger mode choice, especially the factors driving the decision to use a particular mode for different distance segments (e.g. air versus rail for short-haul traffic and the complementarity between them), preferences relating to the journey (travel time, comfort, price, CO2 emissions) and how these preferences will affect future door-to-door journeys. In addition, passengers’ journey planning has to be considered: how to improve the door-to-door options and information on multimodal travel for passengers (e.g. through offering one ticket for multimodal trips (single ticketing), mobility as a service tickets, one-stop shops, etc.) (R&I need: passenger experience at the airport).
  • Integrated performance network. This element covers the establishment of an overall transport network performance framework to improve passenger experience and planning, through improved collaboration between different modes of transport; improved integration of data and processes; specification of GDPR-compliant requirements for the collection, analysis and exploitation of additional data. The aim is to create a pan-European database supporting journey optimisation and personalisation of offers to customers.
  • Multimodal performance scheme. The aim is to develop a set of multimodal KPIs – based on the current single European sky performance scheme, ICAO, EU connectivity indicators and indicators used in other modes of transport – to allow the evaluation of the impact of innovative intermodal transport solutions on the quality, efficiency and resilience of the door-to-door passenger journey. Tactically, there is a need to move away from less meaningful passenger-centric metrics such as small average delays, instead producing better measures of significant disruption (e.g. longer delays, missed connections, denied boarding, cancellations) and integrating currently lacking metrics into the KPAs of flexibility and predictability, which remain important dimensions in travel choice decision-making and trade-offs for the passenger.

Call Total Budget

€10,000,000

Thematic Categories

  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation
  • Social Affairs & Human Rights

Eligibility for Participation

  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions

Eligibility For Participation Notes

Beneficiaries will be subject to the following additional dissemination obligations:

– Beneficiaries must make proactive efforts to share on a royalty free basis, in a timely manner and as appropriate, all relevant results with the other grants awarded under the same call.

– Beneficiaries must acknowledge and incorporate these obligations in the proposal, outlining the efforts they will make towards meeting them and in Annex I to the Grant Agreement.

Call Opening Date

07/04/2022

Call Closing Date

13/10/2022

EU Contact Point

EuroHPC JU

info@eurohpc-ju.europa.eu

(Publish Date: 28/04/2022-for internal use only)