  In the family of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Multimodal
Transport Systems (MMTS) have placed themselves as a mainstream transportation
mean of our time as a feasible integrative transportation process. The Global
Economy progressed with the help of transportation. The volume of goods and
distances covered have doubled in the last ten years, so there is a high demand
of an optimized transportation, fast but with low costs, saving resources but
also safe, with low or zero emissions. Thus, it is important to have an
overview of existing research in this field, to know what was already done and
what is to be studied next. The main objective is to explore a beneficent
selection of the existing research, methods and information in the field of
multimodal transportation research, to identify industry needs and gaps in
research and provide context for future research. The selective survey covers
multimodal transport design and optimization in terms of: cost, time, and
network topology. The multimodal transport theoretical aspects, context and
resources are also covering various aspects. The survey's selection includes
nowadays best methods and solvers for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).
The gap between theory and real-world applications should be further solved in
order to optimize the global multimodal transportation system.
