An integrated decisions support system and a GIS tool for sustainable transportation plans

The Kyoto Protocol agreement sets to Spain a 15% of increment in the emissions from 1990, on the other hand, they fixed the reduction of 8% in the European Union. Today, Spain is at 52% over the base year, the transport is one of a major source (15%). Likewise, the road transport accounts for 80% of emissions divided equally between urban and interurban. The Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans arise as a shock measure, with the aim of increasing energy efficiency, environmental quality and externalities reduction from the road transport. This chapter describes the design and development system that manages sustainable mobility plans. The system is based on free tools, as geographic information system libraries (OpenLayer), Java programming environment and MySQL database manager in an open distributed system, which are used to support data collection and mobility analysis. Also, a decision support system based on socio-economic indicators, mobility, energy and environmental indicators has been integrated to aid in the evaluation and strategies selections. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011.