CONSIDERATION OF THE ROLE OF CITIZENS AND THE SUSTAINABILITY OF URBAN TRANSPORT SYSTEMS

Abstract

In this study, two elements of citizens' perception – long-term view and altruistic – are considered to sustain the local public transport systems, and are formulated by using non-cooperative game theory. As a result, we show that citizens can choice public transport due to the effect of long-term view and altruistic theoretically even if the choice of car is preferable for them in terms of short-term and egoistic benefit. Furthermore, we introduce two policies and evaluate the effect, and show that these policies can enhance the possibility to choice public transport and improve the sustainability of public transport.