System Dynamics Analysis on the Regional Transport Infrastructure and Social Economic Development

This paper conducts data-based analysis on correlation between transportation infrastructure construction and social economic development in Jiangsu Province, determines the causal sequence among the variables, and constructs a system dynamics model for transportation infrastructure construction and social economic development. The model is composed of economic subsystem, employment subsystem, and transportation infrastructure subsystem. The paper then discusses the validity of the model through history test of GDP and total working population, and the emulation of the basic practices in transportation infrastructure system in Jiangsu Province. Some valuable conclusions are obtained by emulation.