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• Understanding passenger expectations. Understanding passenger expectations (with regard to origin–destination, travel time, comfort, ecological impact and reliability, etc.) is a continuous activity linked to the flexibility/changes over time in demand for modes of transport.
• Managing the passengers’ access to airport. Research aims at better understand and dynamically manage the arrival times of departing passengers at the airport. Research may consider medium/short-term predictions on the performance of different airport processes (both airside and groundside) and different factors: the operational situation at the airport (e.g., potential delays of the arriving flight (previous flight leg), passengers’ preferences, situation along the journey to the airport in different ground transport modes, etc.
• Multimodal airport. This research aims at evaluating the definition and impact assessment of new mobility solutions’ (e.g., shared mobility) for a multimodal airport. Research may cover aspects such as airport access, the use of surface modes and connected and autonomous vehicles to access the airport (including studying the trade-offs in terms of the environment, door-to-door travel time, etc.).
• ATM contribution to European Mobility as a Service (MaaS). Research aims at developing ATM innovative solutions enabling passengers to transfer seamlessly between air transport and other transportation modes to reach the final destination quickly, smoothly, predictably, on time and without interruption (R&I need: access to / exit from the airport: airports are obvious multimodal nodes for aviation).
• Seamless connection between airports of all sizes, vertiports and heliports. Research addresses potential solutions to enable simple, convenient, coordinated, safe and secure intermodal connections optimised for passenger experience.
• Digital twins for airports. This research aims at developing an AI-supported concept of digital twin (DT) for airports integrated within the network of transport service providers to optimise the travel time and the overall network capacity and reliability, while minimising the environmental impact and achieving a fully scalable network.

Research may study performance issues and generate possible improvements, all with the goal of generating valuable insights, which can then be applied back to the original physical object (R&I need: access to / exit from the airport: airports are obvious multimodal nodes for aviation).

Information sharing and governance in an integrated transport network. Research aims at investigating efficient ways for information transfer between transport operators as well as between transport operators and travellers. On top of the technical problems related with information sharing, one of the main issues to be addressed for the implementation of intermodal solutions is the lack of incentives and governance models (i.e. stakeholders need to perceive incentives to actually engage in coordination mechanisms). Research on governance and economic aspects is needed to address this problem. Research shall consider the ATM dimension of the problem, engaging with relevant ATM stakeholders.

Mobility in the context of the European Integrated Transport Network. The European transportation ecosystem is transitioning from individual modes of transport, through the concept of Integrated Transport System, towards that of Mobility. Ιt differs from accessibility, which refers to the ability to access or reach a desired service or activity. There is, however, no harmonised concept for mobility, at least not in the scientific sense we normally use in Aviation. Research aims at developing a harmonised concept for multimodal Mobility in the context of the European Integrated Transport Network.