Application of multi-perspective modeling and holistic simulation to Urban Transportation Systems

Abstract

As Urban Transportation Systems (UTS) are becoming central in our daily lives, they are also gaining in complexity due to their ever-increasing interdependence with other socio-economic dimensions (such as climate, demography and environmental policies, to name a few). This paper presents a multi-perspective modeling and holistic simulation framework that can address such a complexity. It is based on the holistic integration of models that have independently been built from the respective perspectives of various but interdependent dimensions. The resulting model can answer questions that any of the perspectivespecific models cannot in isolation.