Ceit leads MITHOS, the new European project that will transform multimodal transport management

The initiative will develop an intelligent cloud platform to optimize the interconnection of different transport nodes.

Four real pilots in Bilbao, Hamburg, Thessaloniki and Vienna/Linz will allow validation of the system's impact, with targets such as a 30% reduction in average transport time and a 20% reduction in operating costs.

Multimodal transport, understood as the efficient combination of different means such as train, bus, bicycle or electric vehicles in the same trip, has become a core topic to advance towards a safer, more sustainable and accessible mobility . Its implementation makes it possible to reduce traffic congestion, optimize the use of infrastructure, reduce dependence on fossil fuels and ensure more equitable access to public transport. However, it still faces significant barriers such as poorly connected infrastructures, limited planning tools and fragmented data management that hinders decision-making.

With the goal of overcoming these challenges, MITHOS is born, an ambitious European project coordinated by the Ceit technology center that will develop an intelligent platform in the cloud capable of centralizing information and analysis tools to design more efficient and resilient multimodal systems. Unlike current solutions, the platform will allow simultaneous evaluation of criteria such as safety, emissions, energy consumption, operating costs or accessibility, offering a holistic view to address mobility from a data approach .

The platform will be connected to the European Union mobility data Spaces (EMDS), which will ensure interoperability and the secure exchange of information between public and private actors. It will also integrate functionalities for the design of public transport networks, the planning of last-mile logistics, the creation of bicycle lanes, the optimization of electric vehicle charging points and the prediction of infrastructure maintenance. All these tools will be modular and adaptable to any territorial context.

Four real pilots

The validation of the system will be carried out in four representative pilots in Europe: Bilbao (Spain), Hamburg (Germany), Thessaloniki (Greece) and Vienna/Linz (Austria). Each of them presents specific challenges in the coordination of infrastructures and transport modes, which will ensure a complete assessment of the platform and will favor the transferability of the results to other territories.

Ceit coordinates the project and leads the pilot in Bilbao

Ceit is the general coordinator of the project and assumes a core topic role in the definition of functional requirements , the design of the technological architecture and the validation in real environments. In addition, he will lead the development of the pilot in Bilbao, contributing with his experience in monitoring and predictive maintenance of infrastructures, as well as in the application of artificial intelligence for predictive modeling and autonomous systems.

A direct impact on time, costs and emissions

Among the expected benefits are a reduction of at least 30% in the average transport time for people and goods, a 20% reduction in operating costs for operators, an increase in infrastructure resilience through a 30% reduction in the probability of failure, and a 30% reduction in pollutant emissions in demonstration environments by 2030.

In addition to Ceit, the project , financed by the HORIZON program of the European Union, counts with the participation of DLR, CERTH, Emisia, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, PATRIC Research Center, IFP Energies nouvelles, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Keita Mobility Factory, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Freie and Hansestadt Hamburg, Ayuntamiento de Bilbao, OSE Thessaloniki and the Clúster de mobility y Logística de Euskadi.