Towards a specification of a framework for sustainable transportation analysis

This paper reports on the first stages of our work to build an integrated decision-support tool to analyse sustainable transportation systems. A preliminary description of the application domain is presented and some modelling issues are discussed. An artificial transportation framework is conceptualized on the basis of three important subsystems, namely the real world, the virtual domain and the control strategies inductor. Initial efforts are focused on a hierarchical structure for urban traffic control and management, even though the framework is certainly suitable to support the analysis of transportation systems from different perspectives in an integrated fashion. Artificial complex systems are an emergent concept that allows complex domains to be studied in a controlled environment.