Ride2Rail: integrating ridesharing to increase the attractiveness of rail travel

Shared travel offers an important way to increase the accessibility of rail services. However, providing an integrated shared travel capability for rail travel is both a conceptual and technical challenge. This paper presents an overview of Ride2Rail, enabling ‘Easy use for all’ of rail through ride...

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Published in:	European transport research review Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 3 - 12
Main Authors:	Golightly, David, Altobelli, Emiliano, Bassi, Nicola, Buchníček, Petr, Consonni, Cristian, Juránková, Petra, Mitropoulos, Lambros, Rizzi, Giuseppe, Rossi, Matteo, Scrocca, Maria, Rutanen, Eetu, Kortsari, Annie, Niavis, Harris
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cham Springer International Publishing 01-12-2024 Springer Nature B.V SpringerOpen
Subjects:	Automotive Engineering Car pools Civil Engineering Engineering Mobility as a service (MaaS) Original Paper Rail Regional/Spatial Science Rideshare Shared mobility Technology assessment TRA 2022 Lisbon “Moving together – reimagining mobility worldwide” Transportation Travel Mobility as a service (MaaS) Rideshare Rail Shared mobility
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Summary:	Shared travel offers an important way to increase the accessibility of rail services. However, providing an integrated shared travel capability for rail travel is both a conceptual and technical challenge. This paper presents an overview of Ride2Rail, enabling ‘Easy use for all’ of rail through ridesharing as part of a multimodal journey. Ride2Rail has the overall objective of developing intelligent multimodal mobility, by facilitating the efficient combination of flexible and crowdsourced transport services, such as ridesharing, with scheduled transport. A requirements activity has set out the travel behaviour and system requirements for Ride2Rail. Development activities have covered the technical implementation of Ride2Rail, involving both development of the Ride2Rail functionalities and the Ride2Rail Driver Companion application, integrated within the wider Shift2Rail ecosystem. Demonstration activities have involved the preparation, implementation, execution and monitoring of Ride2Rail at four demonstration sites. This paper outlines the overall approach and findings of the Ride2Rail. This demonstrates the technical feasibility of integrating shared travel, including the architecture for a shared ride capability that can be readily integrated into pre-existing Mobility as a Service (MaaS) platform. Additionally, the paper reports positive user attitudes to this kind of shared travel, within the context of multimodal trips.
ISSN:	1866-8887 1867-0717 1866-8887
DOI:	10.1186/s12544-023-00627-9