The MODular URBAN Guided Rail System project, or in short MODURBAN, was a joint R&D project.
The MODURBAN project was launched at the beginning of 2005 with the aim of providing common functional specifications for operators and a common technical architecture for manufacturers. These general objectives are fully in line with one of UNIFE’s overall missions – namely to promote standardisation and the harmonisation of interfaces.
Benefits are the reduction of the cost for buying and running urban rail systems as a whole. Some of the findings were successfully demonstrated on the Metro de Madrid network on December 16 2008.