The idea of the “garden city” was developed theoretically to offer solutions to serious city development problems such as traffic congestion, population, and environmental pollution, among which the transportation is considered the most important. The question is how to develop balanced transportation in a garden city. Transportation is a complex system, particularly in a garden city. Therefore, we establish a new approach named the transportation multiobjective optimization system dynamics？？(SD-MOP) model, which firstly calculates the optimal proportion of different transport means with an MOP approach and then applies them to the dynamic transportation system to analyze the results and analyze the influence on the whole system using different transportation means variation. In this paper, we take Chengdu as an example, one of the few cities in the world declared as building a garden city, and then develop some recommendations about world modern garden city transportation system development. 1. Introduction It is generally recognized that cities are experiencing huge change in terms of their development and mobility patterns, while transportation, and？？will continue to plays, a critical role in city development [1–3]. Energy consumption is one of the most severe transportation problems. IEA [4] argues that transport plays an important role in addressing the challenges of climate change mitigation as it consumes nearly half of global oil and contributes 25% of total fossil fuel combustion-related CO2 emissions of the world, and road transport is responsible for about 75% of the emissions from the transport sector. Petri et al. [5] compare the development of transport and energy use with a focus on CO2 emissions and suggest a more sustainable passenger transport system. Dominic [6] examines recent temporal and spatial trends and forecasts in energy consumption, energy efficiency, and energy costs in the transport sector across Europe. Meanwhile, land use, health effects, employment, population growth, and transport alternatives are all considered as related to the transportation problems. Frank [7] focused on land use, noting that, with different land uses, traffic designs need to be different. Messenger and Ewing [8] think that employment, the balance of living space, ownership, and the public transport service level affect people’s transport choice. Martin [9] investigates the association between means of transportation to work and overweight and obesity. In this paper, transportation structure is our main concern to the research. Transportation
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