Concept of a Simulation Model for Assessing the Sustainable Development of Urban Transport

Abstract

Abstract The article presents a concept of a simulation model for evaluation and assessment of the sustainable development of urban transport in the social, economic and environmental dimensions. Urban transport is here understood as combination of urban freight transport, passenger transport and individual transport. The concept is illustrated by a set of environmental indicators for sustainable development of urban transport. A system of sustainable development of urban transport has been defined. The simulation model has been developed as a consequence of the system dynamics that allowed integration of numerous indicators of the sustainable development of urban transport (including the qualitative and quantitative ones) and their simultaneous estimation with a dynamic approach. Furthermore, the concept present in the article also provides a possibility to generate results in a form of integrated sustainable development indicators. They express the degree of a given phenomenon in three different dimensions, presenting the information on the complex phenomenon description in a very clear manner.