Identifying Factors for the Development of Sustainable Urban Transport in the Context of Urban Sprawl – A Comparative Study among EU`s Capitals

Sustainable urban transport is one of the goals of the Sustainable Development Goal; 11 sustainable cities and communities. With the main purpose of sustainable urban development, the paper aims to identify related fields associated with sustainable urban transport and the principal factors that influence the development of sustainable transport in the urban environment. In order to achieve these objectives, in a first phase, a bibliometric analysis is carried out based on the theme of sustainable urban transport, then to achieve the second objective, a random forest algorithm is implemented at the level of the 27 capitals of the Member States of the European Union. The main results of the paper define the concept of sustainable urban transport from the perspective of noise pollution, transport policies, transport equity, urban planning, and the transport pattern of urban citizens.