Evaluating Sustainable Urban Mobility Strategies as a Tool to Provide Balance of Centrality Levels in Budapest City

The absence of balance among different urban areas and the centralization/decentralization aspects is one of the challenges that the cities have been facing. The level of centrality affects the distribution of the activities in the city. It also results in the marginality of other areas which face serious problems and may cause an obstacle to the development of a sustainable city. Transportation networks play an essential role in enforcing or weakening the level of centrality. This could be found in the proposed case study of Budapest where the distribution of transportation networks is a major contributor to the different levels of centrality among various urban areas. But, is Budapest city capable of overcoming the different levels of centrality, limiting the centrality problems; congestion, pollution, inequality, etc., and moving toward a more balanced city with strategies of Urban Sustainable Mobility? This will be examined in the proposed research by measuring the centrality levels via transportation networks, specifying the levels of the centrality of the different urban areas, evaluating the situation, and revising the plans of the responsible agencies of transportation for promoting sustainability. Achieving the previously mentioned steps and defining the path of Budapest towards more sustainable transport will help in providing an introduction for developing transportation strategies and improving Sustainable Urban Mobility criteria to provide balance for the different urban areas and reduce the problems of centrality.