Abstract
Transport systems are key elements of urban areas, therefore their sustainability has a pivotal role in achieving complex urban sustainability. Nowadays the assessment of urban sustainability is a hotspot in different scientific fields despite of lack of comprehensive and widely accepted definitions of both urban sustainability and sustainable transportation. The use of divergent indicators for evaluating sustainable urban transportation has been emerged as a core of urban studies. The main aims of this paper is to analyze sets of sustainable urban transport indicators developed in the scientific area worldwide, to collect variables for assessing urban transport sustainability in Hungary, finally to do recommendations in order to be able to evaluate sustainability of transport systems in Hungarian urban areas in a more effective manner.
Highlights
Understanding processes in urban areas are key step to put forward our cities to a sustainable and resilient future (Csete and Horváth, 2012)
There is no agreement in terms of both the definition of sustainable urban mobility, and the use, the collection, the number and the selection of related indicators as well
Applied definitions and approaches regarding indicators mostly depend on the authors of different studies, there is no coherence between set of indicators applied by these studies
Summary
Understanding processes in urban areas are key step to put forward our cities to a sustainable and resilient future (Csete and Horváth, 2012). Since cities are largely complex systems, assessment and measurability of their subsystems are crucial for implementing efficient decisions. One of these subsystem is the urban transport system, what is the key element in moving goods and people within and between cities. According to the 2014 Revision of World Urbanisation Prospects (UN, 2014), 54% of world’s population live in cities and this number is projected to reach 66% by 2050. More and more people use these systems from day to day, the pressure on urban transport system increasing steadily and become the major driver of sustainable cities
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