diff --git a/.github/workflows/wheel-linux.yml b/.github/workflows/wheel-linux.yml
index 12648ced2b5d..fb1f5eafc5b1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/wheel-linux.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/wheel-linux.yml
@@ -35,8 +35,10 @@ jobs:
     - name: Building helper wheels for later tests
       run: |
         cd tools
-        python build/setup-sumolib.py bdist_wheel
-        python build/setup-traci.py bdist_wheel
+        python build/version.py build/setup-sumolib.py ./setup.py
+        python -m build --sdist --wheel
+        python build/version.py build/setup-traci.py ./setup.py
+        python -m build --sdist --wheel
 
     - name: Uploading artifacts (Helper wheels)
       uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 906f52ac03ec..106a3f14dee5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 /mirror
 /share
 /dist
+/setup.py
 # IDE project files
 /.settings
 /.cproject
@@ -115,6 +116,7 @@
 /tools/libsumo/libsumo.py
 /tools/libtraci/_libtraci.*
 /tools/libtraci/libtraci.py
+/tools/setup.py
 # extracted tests
 /tests/_*
 # netedit test
diff --git a/build/pyproject.toml b/build/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6da67be8e1c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = [ "setuptools>=42",
+    "scikit-build>=0.13",
+    "cmake>=3.18",
+    "ninja",
+]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
diff --git a/tools/build/build_wheels.sh b/tools/build/build_wheels.sh
index ced1e0d61397..ed12a2b2348e 100755
--- a/tools/build/build_wheels.sh
+++ b/tools/build/build_wheels.sh
@@ -26,23 +26,27 @@ if test -z $HTTPS_PROXY; then
     yum install -y --nogpgcheck ccache libxerces-c-devel proj-devel fox16-devel bzip2-devel gl2ps-devel swig3
     pipx install -f patchelf==0.16.1.0  # see https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/issues/1421
 fi
-/opt/python/cp38-cp38/bin/pip install scikit-build cmake
 
 mkdir -p $HOME/.ccache
 echo "hash_dir = false" >> $HOME/.ccache/ccache.conf
 echo "base_dir = /github/workspace/_skbuild/linux-x86_64-3.8" >> $HOME/.ccache/ccache.conf
-/opt/python/cp38-cp38/bin/python tools/build/setup-sumo.py -j 8 bdist_wheel
+cp build/pyproject.toml .
+py=/opt/python/cp38-cp38
+$py/bin/python tools/build/version.py tools/build/setup-sumo.py ./setup.py
+$py/bin/python -m build --wheel
 mv dist/eclipse_sumo-* `echo dist/eclipse_sumo-* | sed 's/cp38-cp38/py2.py3-none/'`
 auditwheel repair dist/eclipse_sumo*.whl
 cp -a data tools/libsumo
 for py in /opt/python/cp3[1789]*; do
-    rm dist/*.whl
-    $py/bin/pip install scikit-build
+    rm tools/dist/*.whl
     pminor=`echo $py | sed 's,/opt/python/cp3,,;s/-.*//'`
     echo "base_dir = /github/workspace/_skbuild/linux-x86_64-3.${pminor}" >> $HOME/.ccache/ccache.conf
-    $py/bin/python tools/build/setup-sumo.py -j 8 bdist_wheel
-    $py/bin/python tools/build/setup-libsumo.py bdist_wheel
-    $py/bin/python tools/build/setup-libtraci.py bdist_wheel
-    auditwheel repair dist/libsumo*.whl
-    auditwheel repair dist/libtraci*.whl
+    $py/bin/python tools/build/version.py tools/build/setup-sumo.py ./setup.py
+    $py/bin/python -m build --wheel
+    $py/bin/python tools/build/version.py tools/build/setup-libsumo.py tools/setup.py
+    $py/bin/python -m build --wheel tools
+    $py/bin/python tools/build/version.py tools/build/setup-libtraci.py tools/setup.py
+    $py/bin/python -m build --wheel tools
+    auditwheel repair tools/dist/libsumo*.whl
+    auditwheel repair tools/dist/libtraci*.whl
 done
diff --git a/tools/build/setup-sumo.py b/tools/build/setup-sumo.py
index 6919fa9cf6c2..15ffaa9532cd 100755
--- a/tools/build/setup-sumo.py
+++ b/tools/build/setup-sumo.py
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@
 import version
 
 SUMO_VERSION = version.get_pep440_version()
-package_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..'))
+sumo_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+while not os.path.exists(os.path.join(sumo_dir, 'README.md')) and sumo_dir != os.path.dirname(sumo_dir):
+    sumo_dir = os.path.dirname(sumo_dir)
 
 setup(
     name='eclipse-sumo',
@@ -31,7 +33,7 @@
     author_email='sumo@dlr.de',
     license='EPL-2.0',
     description=("A microscopic, multi-modal traffic simulation package"),
-    long_description=open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(package_dir), 'README.md')).read(),
+    long_description=open(os.path.join(sumo_dir, 'README.md')).read(),
     long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
 
     classifiers=[