SPROUT System Dynamics Tool for Capturing the dynamics of a mobility system under transition

Description

The System Dynamics Tool is a support instrument for assessing the impacts policy measures that have an expected impact on modal split and kilometres driven. The purpose of this tool is to provide concrete estimations on the dynamic effects of a specific policy action or measure on the urban mobility environment. Towards this aim, a cost-based approach was followed through which the variables of the system are expressed in costs by using the functions identified in the context of SPROUT.

Expected Outcome

The main outcome of this analysis is the calculation of the costs generated to a city's sustainability area (economy, environment, community and the mobility) by the tested measure and a chosen set of policy responses and cross-compare those with the future mobility states estimated in do-nothing scenarios.

Developer/Author

SPROUT Project

Contact email

Year of publication

2022

Cost to user

Free / No Cost

Pre-requisite skills

None

Data requirement

Current and expected modal split by modes; current and expected share of e-vehicles; current and expected total vehicle-km.