Today, Europe’s major railway stations are mobility hubs that support several transport users, not just rail commuters. Planners are required to revise design criteria and standards to keep up with the increased demand on services. To this end, the project aims at defining upgraded criteria for designing railway stations as multiservice hubs. To help planners deliver seamless connections between multiple users, the RAISE_UB project will conduct experiments and initiate interventions to gauge responses to various scenarios and find out what works best.  

Commuters that frequent two railway stations – Milano Rogoredo and Madrid Chamartin – will be asked to participate in the project. An online platform to collect data on users’ perceptions of the changes will be created and will also engage people in the test beds. Additionally, an intervention roadmap and design principles that include recommendations on how to improve the intermodality of different transport types will be a key output.