A method for optimized route planning for a user, including:(a) determining a departure point and a destination point for multimodal travel;(b) based on said departure point and destination point, computing and proposing criteria for restricting the number of candidate routes to consider,(c) proposing an updated list of candidate routes between said departure point and said destination point, said updated list being either:i) automatically displayed after a delay, and/or:ii) based on user selection of said criteria.