Abstract
The urban mobility system is an important factor in social development and must, therefore, be tackled in a way that enables balanced, sustainable development. The purpose of the present work was to introduce a new holistic approach to urban mobility system (UMS) planning, which involves a strategic decision-making process with a broad involvement of various stakeholders. For this purpose, an innovative model was created by synthesizing the focus group (FG) method with the nominal group technique (NGT), SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis, and the fuzzy analytical hierarchical process (FAHP) method. The fuzzy approach was chosen for its ability to incorporate imprecise and vague information and make a decision-making UMS process more realistic. Accordingly, the objective of the paper was to propose a newly developed model that will (considering the integration of various urban mobility subsystems) enable the detection, identification, and ranking of key priorities required for a more holistic approach to UMS planning. The results revealed that the developed integrated model enables acquired areas to be ranked according to priorities, which further allows the development of scenarios. Moreover, the model allows a better understanding of how to search for compromises when one is faced with multi-criteria decision-making and coordination of frequently contradictory goals. A new integrated urban mobility model, as proposed herein, was also successfully tested in a real-life application, which proves its potential for use in sustainable urban mobility planning in a holistic way.
Highlights
Modern society greatly depends on mobility [1], which is an essential factor for both society [2] and human development [1,3]
This paper describes the development of such a holistic approach to urban mobility system (UMS) planning, which enables strategic decisions to be taken with the involvement of various stakeholders
If we look at the numerical data obtained by the fuzzy analytical hierarchical process (FAHP) method (Table 8), we can see that among the individual priority areas, areas of opportunities and weaknesses prevailed approximately to the same degree, with a slight domination of opportunities
Summary
Modern society greatly depends on mobility [1], which is an essential factor for both society [2] and human development [1,3]. As we know it today, is a movement between different points or cities [6,7], and has become a key factor in the sustainable and economic development of urban areas [8,9], where more than half of the world’s population lives [10]. The dependence on a high-quality urban mobility system, which can be understood as a solution that satisfies the derived demand of people who need to perform an activity at some destination [13,14], has negative impacts, such as traffic congestion [15], accidents [16], and environmental pollution [17], which, in turn, affect the level of mobility [1,18]. As a key urban system [19], urban mobility systems (UMS) directly or indirectly affect every substantial social theme [20]. According to the United Nations [22], there are urges-for-action that should be undertaken towards a more sustainable mobility system and to ensure that mobility will become a priority for every transport policy [23,24,25,26]
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