Urbanistic aspects in transport modelling: A study of contemporary approaches

Abstract

Transport modelling has always been closely intertwined with psychology. Even Wardrop’s principles have psychological and social elements in their respective interpretations, although they unseemly expect the user to have a perfect rationality rather than a bounded one. It may be the case that this tradition of transport modelling and psychology could be expanded and more closely related to urbanism. Especially in the effort today to rationalise urban mobility and create more compact and functionally balanced cities, urbanistic modification of transport modelling could potentially be a powerful tool for city planners. This study aims to explore contemporary approaches that try to tie modelling to urbanism and to describe the effects of these attempts.