Europe must take decisive steps to simplify and modernise its rail systems to strengthen competitiveness,...

Motional winner of best paper award!
Yahan Lu, Rob Goverde, Gábor Maróti and Dennis Huisman received the Best Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (RailDresden 2025) for their paper entitled “An iterative heuristic for strategic timetabling with...
Simulation methods and models to enable more reliable and effective capacity of the railway network
Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking’s FP1-MOTIONAL project participants from Sweden, the Netherlands, France, and Spain, gathered in Luleå on 10 and 11 June 2025 to jointly work on preparing demonstrations for increased railway capacity solutions developed by...
Integrating Optimization Metrics into Daily Practice – A Human-Centred Approach to Railway Planning Support
FP1-MOTIONAL was represented at the recent 2025 Transportation Research Symposium in Rotterdam by researchers Jonas Andersson and Sara Gestrelius from RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, on behalf of Trafikverket. The poster presented at this event provided an...D2.4 – Demonstration Strategy
The purpose of Deliverable 2.4 “Demonstration Strategy” is to present a strategy, the guidelines and templates for the preparation and delivery of demonstrations planned in the second half of the FP1-MOTIONAL project ( Month 25 – Month 43). The document explains...