Application of structural modeling to assess the type of public transport development in cities and urban agglomerations

The article is devoted to identifying the type of development of public transport in the economic space of cities and urban agglomerations. Based on the construction of a model of the structural dynamics of the cumulative socio-economic process of providing a city or urban agglomeration with public transport, an understanding is being formed about the degree of synchronization of public transport management and the subjects of its micro and macro environment. The effectiveness of using the potential of public transport was assessed for the period from 2013 to 2022 using the example of Nizhny Novgorod public transport. The constructed models make it possible to quantify and qualitatively measure the effectiveness of public transport management and show the level of objective complexity of harmonizing the collective efforts of key stakeholders in managing complex socio-economic systems, which are public transport systems in cities and urban agglomerations. The results obtained are of scientific and practical interest, since, firstly, they can serve as an objective basis for assessing the coherence of the actions of key stakeholders both in goal-setting processes and in planning, monitoring, analyzing and evaluating the effectiveness of their interaction in the economic space of cities and urban agglomerations. Secondly, the methodology of structural modeling applied to the assessment of the typology of public transport development in the transport systems of cities and urban agglomerations can be the basis for assessing the direction of development of the subprocesses occurring in them and correlating their contribution to the achievement of the UN global goals in the field of sustainable development.