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Multimodal transportation will not only increase the intensity of use of vehicles, but also reduce the passenger's travel time. The main task of organizing multimodal transportation is to maximally satisfy the demand of the population for transport services with the most efficient use of rolling stock. For a more effective solution to this problem, it is necessary to analyze the process of planning passenger transportation, evaluate the possibilities of marketing research in this area and conduct typifying of lines from the point of view of organizing multimodal transportation. The paper describes in detail the passenger transportation planning scheme and proposes an algorithm for assessing the effectiveness of managerial decisions. To improve the efficiency of making managerial decisions in the field of destination and cancellation of passenger trains of various categories, direct trains, trailing cars, organization of multimodal transportation, it is proposed to typify the lines with dividing them into 5 categories. Thus, the solution to the problem of maintaining the share of passenger traffic can be either the development of direct railway links, or the transition to multimodal transportation with the condition of coordinating the time of transfer.

The main objective of organising multimodal transport is to meet the public’s demand for transport services as much as possible while making the most efficient use of rolling stock. In order to determine the efficiency of a transport system the paper proposes that it should be viewed as a collection of different local transport systems. The issue of organising multimodal transport is related to many aspects of passenger services and rail transport operations (forecasting passenger flows, developing combined train schedules, features of the TH (transfer hub) and station complexes, etc.). The article details the way multimodal passenger chains are represented in the form of graphical models. The goals of using the constructed graphs are defined: solving problems of visualisation and analysis of multimodal transport chains as well as solving the complex problem of optimising the scheduling and planning of vehicle stops at passenger transfer points. It has been shown that the main requirements for organising this type of passenger transport are to minimise the total travel time of vehicles in order to reduce management costs for operators and to maximise the number of passengers carried in order to better meet passenger demand.

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