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The Bipolar Metropolitan Region Vienna–Bratislava

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The Austrian capital Vienna and the Slovakian capital Bratislava are situated at a distance of only about 60 km from each other. Due to iron curtains, they had been separated for decades. The EU accession of Slovakia finally ended this period and created a highly dynamic metropolitan region. Static transport and land use modelling are seen as inappropriate in such circumstances. The Institute of Transportation, Vienna University of Technology has extensive experience in the application of the methods of System Dynamics in land use and transport planning. The chapter starts with a presentation of the use of the qualitative method of causal loop diagrams (CLD) as a tool to improve the understanding of a functional urban region. The findings of this qualitative analysis were used to develop the operational, quantitative land use, and transport interaction model MARS (Metropolitan Activity Relocation Simulator). The application of the model MARS is presented and discussed using a case study of the metropolitan region Vienna–Bratislava.

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    http://www.ivv.tuwien.ac.at/forschung/projekte/national/pluto-prediction-of-land-use-and-transport-changes-due-to-open-borders-a-modelling-framework-for-the-vienna-bratislava-metropolitan-region.html.

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    Vensim® is property of Ventana Systems, Inc. (http://www.vensim.com).

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    http://www.vensim.com/freedownload.html.

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    http://centrope.info/baerstart/.

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    Zero or an even number of causal links of the type “o” within a closed loop.

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    An even number of causal links of the type “o” within a closed loop.

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    Own transcription, original in German: “Der induzierte Verkehr, […] kompensiert den Kapazitätsausbau, der aus Staugesichtspunkten wirkungslos bleibt”.

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    The name translates to “Transport model Austria-Slovakia”. The project is funded in the Slovak-Austrian cross-border cooperation programme 2007–2013. For more information see http://www.ivv.tuwien.ac.at/forschung/projekte/international-projects/vkmat-sk0.html.

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    Central European Region: http://centrope.info/baernew.

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Acknowledgements

The research project PLUTO (Prediction of Land Use and Transport changes due to Open borders – a modelling framework for the Vienna-Bratislava metropolitan region) was made possible by funding from Wirtschaftskammer Wien (Chamber of Economy Vienna).

The research project SPARKLE (Sustainability Planning for Asian Cities making use of Research, Know-How and Lessons from Europe) was made possible by funding from the European Commission under its Asia-Eco-Pro programme.

The research project DISTILLATE was funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under its Sustainable Urban Environment programme, and supported by sixteen UK local authorities and a steering group including representatives of the International Transport Forum, the European Commission, the UK Department for Transport and Transport Scotland. MARS-DISTILLATE was funded by the UK Department for Transport.

The project “Verkehrsmodell AT-SK” is funded by the European Regional Development Fund within the Slovak-Austrian cross-border cooperation programme 2007–2013.

The author is grateful to all colleagues working on the aforementioned projects for their valuable contributions to the ideas presented here. Special thanks to Leopold Riedl for allowing us to use the software Animap in combination with the model MARS.

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Pfaffenbichler, P. (2012). The Bipolar Metropolitan Region Vienna–Bratislava. In: Bazzanella, L., Caneparo, L., Corsico, F., Roccasalva, G. (eds) The Future of Cities and Regions. Springer Geography. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2518-8_11

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