High-speed railway (HSR) links across Europe provide high-capacity

transport between large metropolitan centres. This is alleviating the

congestion and environmental problems of road and air links along the same

routes. However, the efficiency and attractiveness of such systems, which

produce massive departures and arrivals of passengers at fixed intervals,

depend on their ability to offer complementary transport services for

connection to and from the terminals. In order to ensure that HSR systems

address the requirements of the door-to-door transport chain, users' needs

and travel patterns must be understood.