Uncertainty
Systemic, environmental and behavioural disruption, quantified as it grows across timescales.
Decisions for an uncertain world.
Combining prediction with optimisation under uncertainty, from operations to long-term planning.
Behaviour
Traveller preferences and their adaptation to new mobility solutions, estimated and updated without re-running surveys.
Resilience
Systems that absorb disruption and use scarce resources efficiently, remaining usable under varying conditions.
Decision-making
The closed-loop integration of estimate-then-optimise, in which operations and strategy inform one another.
About the project
What is TRANSFORM?
Multimodal passenger networks face constant pressure from new technologies, shifting business models, and growing urban density. Yet today's transport systems are designed in silos — real-time disruption insight rarely informs long-term investment.
TRANSFORM is a five-year ERC research programme that develops the first scientifically grounded framework to bridge those silos — coordinating operators, infrastructure authorities, and travellers through three integrated pillars.
Hosted at TU Delft, led by Associate Professor Shadi Sharif Azadeh, with a team of three PhD researchers and two postdoctoral fellows.
How the research is organised.
Four work packages — three vertical objectives plus a cross-cutting uncertainty workbench.
WP0
Uncertainty quantification & impact assessment
Cross-cutting workbench · PD1 · PD2 · PI
Cross-cutting work that identifies uncertainty sources and powers TRANSSim, a new multi-agent simulator extending MaaSSim with network adaptation and centralized trip recommendation across temporal scales. WP0 underpins all three vertical work packages, providing shared tools and validated uncertainty models.
Latest news.
All news →June 12, 2026
Programme
TRANSFORM awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant; programme begins at TU Delft
June 12, 2026
Publication
A short-term predict-then-cluster framework for resource availability under disruption
June 12, 2026
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