A seamless door-to-door journey of multimodal trips  relies on collaboration and data sharing among transport  service providers (TSPs) across transport modes. However,  collaboration is a generic concept that is hard to define. To  overcome this challenge, the SYN+AIR project designed  a smart contracts framework (SCF) aimed at facilitating  the generation of contractual agreements among TSPs.  This framework is an alloy of different architectures (i.e.,  business, information, technical and application) hosted by  a cloud platform.

TSPs can register on the SYN+AIR platform and create,  modify, or cancel a contract. A contract is an agreement  between two TSPs that defines the data sharing criteria  and uses a data flow model match mechanism and a  graph knowledge base that sets out the scope, dataset  attributes and specifications, parties’ obligations, revenue,  responsibility sharing, contract time span and fulfilment  criteria, etc. Moreover, the platform is designed to facilitate collaboration between transport  service providers of different modes, and to perform the management of their contracts in a  centralised manner. Its design envisions connections with third party services and software  solutions such as transport clouds, data spaces transport, open data repositories and data  transformation platforms to obtain the necessary inputs to run the SYN+AIR platform.

The platform supports connections with mobility-as-a-service providers and travel  companion apps. On the one hand, those apps allow the verification of a signed contract  on the SYN+AIR platform. On the other hand, the travellers benefit from data sharing and  coordination of transport services which can lead to less waiting time, single ticketing and  single check in.

The SYN+AIR web-based platform that hosts the SCF is ready to be implemented by  TSPs and travel companion applications and offers European citizens and travellers the  opportunity to enjoy the benefits of multimodal door-to-door seamless transport. 

Benefits

• Standardised multimodal collaboration 
• Single ticketing including air transport
• Faster and easier trip booking