With Bologna Airport, Marconi Express participates in the European Travel Wise project (H-JU-ER-2023 – 01101178579). The project will support the shift from traffic management in silos to intermodal traffic orchestration by putting in place a methodology, a roadmap and the related technologies to allow:
- sharing of information between air and rail operators;
- intermodal collaborative decision making both in nominal situations and in case of disruptions;
- optimisation of passenger experience.
Among others, Travel Wise will exploit the experience acquired in the air sector while building the Single European Sky and the European ATM architecture (EATMA) to share knowledge with the rail sector and support the progressive results of the system created by ERJU in building of the European Single Railway Area and in the definition of the Rail System Architecture.
To create an intermodal ecosystem and following the evolution of the ATM and rail sectors and their Master Plans, Travel Wise will exploit the full benefits of digitalisation, define a roadmap towards a common air-rail data space, extend the Collaborative Decision Making process to multimodality, develop integrated operations plans, and design, develop, implement and validate technical solutions for air-rail integrated traffic management in both nominal and non-nominal situations.
This is guaranteed by the presence in the consortium of relevant members of both Joint Undertakings and a wide representation of end users ranging from airport and rail infrastructure managers, air and rail operators, air navigation service providers (ANSPs), other transport mode operators, relevant technology providers and research centres.
With Bologna Airport, Marconi Express will be involved in the study of the third scenario: “Regional airport as future multimodal integrator hub”, aiming at enhancing efficiency in managing railway and flight timetables at Bologna Airport by providing a unified and streamlined view for passengers, supporting the prediction models and more specifically the identification of passengers, single ticketing between different transport modes will be enhanced.
Actually, the focal point is the creation of an interface that is able to elaborate the input data (demand) coming from the passengers themselves, from the mobility operators (rail and air) regarding schedules, delays or disruption and to give supply in terms of services for passengers and optimization of the internal operations of the exchange hubs (airport and station). On one hand, the passengers can display the flight’s timetable during their journey to the airport, to visualize all possible and feasible destinations due to their actual departure/arrival travel time. On the other hand, a passenger leaving Bologna airport could approach the feasible railway connection for the short or long distance destination departing from Bologna Central Station/Bologna High Speed Station. The developed solutions will be useful in ordinary situations, but especially in case of disruptions.
Partnership
- Deep Blue – Coordinator – IT
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya – ES
- Sparsity – ES
- ACI Europe – Airport Council International – BE
- ENAC École nationale de l’aviation civile – FR
- EURNEX – DE
- EUROCONTROL – BE
- Enide – ES
- Linkopings University – SE
- RAILENIUM – FR
- VTI Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute – SE
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland – FI
- AMADEUS – FR
- COLLINS Aerospace – IE
- Hitachi Rail GTS Italia – IT
- SITA – IE
- Thales Italia – IT
- ADP Aéroports de Paris – FR
- Athens international Airport – EL
- Aeroporto Guglielmo Marconi di Bologna – IT
- Brussels Airport – BE
- Schiphol Airport – NL
- KLM – NL
- FS – Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane – IT
- FSTechnology – IT
- Hellenic Train – EL
- Prorail – NL
- SNCF Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français – FR
- SNCF Voyageurs – FR
- THI Factory – BE
- TRV Swedish Transport Administration – SE
- Marconi Express – IT
- TPER – IT
- Aegean Airlines – EL
- Piraeus Port Authority – EL
- Gustave Eiffel University – FR
- Flatland Association – CH
