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Have metropolitan mobility policies been redefined by the Covid pandemic?

Jean Debrie, Juliette Maulat

21/05/2024

The pandemic precipitated a sudden, short-term shift in mobility. The immediate repercussions of the lockdown are widely documented: a substantial decrease in travel, partially supplanted by telecommunications; significant alterations in modal practices (increased walking and cycling, and decreased use of public transport and private vehicles); and a surge in short-distance trips. Throughout the crisis, numerous media outlets speculated about a transition towards a "post-Covid world"…

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Old age, dependency and mobility

Yann Castanier

17/01/2024

For the release of the book “Je vous regarde disparaître” [I'm Watching You Disappear], which chronicles fifteen years of my grandparents’ life affected by Alzheimer's disease, the Mobile Lives Forum asked me to talk about the mobility struggles that my family encountered in the face of old age.

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‘Revenge Travel’: Aeromobilities and the aviation industry after the Pandemic

Weiqiang Lin

23/06/2023

In 2022, after two years of being grounded due to the Covid-19 pandemic, passengers quickly took to the skies once more in a phenomenon known as “Revenge Travel”. At the same time, the airline industry, weakened by the crisis, has itself embarked on an insatiable quest for growth that ignores current ecological and social issues.

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Harnessing social tipping dynamics for the ecological transition: the case of the electric car

Javier Caletrío

13/06/2023

Researchers and practitioners are paying growing attention to the possibility of a fast transition in practices and technologies that could accelerate the achievement of emission reductions targets. Although these rapid transitions are usually identifiable in retrospective, experts argue that a transition from combustion engine cars to electric vehicles is imminent. Why do they think a tipping point is about to be reached? What can be done to create the right conditions for the transition to…

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Cycling policies: Lessons from Seville

Ricardo Marqués

21/11/2022

The city of Seville is unique for its success in promoting cycling as an integral part of its urban mobility in only five years (2006-2011), through the implementation of a well-designed, safe and comfortable network of cycle paths covering all the city. This achievement, however, has not been followed by a substantial improvement of cycling mobility in the years since. This article analyses the political, social and infrastructural causes behind this success and the following stagnation,…

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Commuter support schemes: the case for a review in light of the transition

Jean-Pierre Orfeuil

07/11/2022

Many commuter support schemes were implemented long before the recent surge in oil prices, for reasons that have since become obsolete due to the need to transition towards low carbon mobilities. This article identifies these schemes, assesses their impact on CO2 emissions and public finances, and offers pathways away from them, guided by public acceptability, fairness and environmental efficiency.

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“Let's listen to what the citizens want to transform our territories”

26/09/2022

Many French people want to be able to live outside of big cities while having access to the most ecological modes of travel possible. An unprecedented coalition of environmental organizations and associations defending users (motorists, cyclists, pedestrians...), families, people with reduced mobility and individuals in precarious situations, are calling for these aspirations to be taken into account in order to think about a new way of organizing the territory.

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What price are we willing to pay to curb carbon emissions?

Yves Crozet

05/09/2022

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) - especially carbon dioxide (C02) - has become a pressing matter for public policies. Different tools are available to pursue it, such as regulations and subsidies. But how should the “price of carbon” be determined and then integrated into the economic decisions of private and public actors? What do current economic policies tell us? And how could quantity regulation become an essential tool alongside pricing measures?

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A new post-pandemic pathway for mobility?

Greg Marsden, Jillian Anable, Llinos Brown, Iain Docherty

02/05/2022

Starting in early 2020, the pandemic has had a major impact on how we all live our lives. We have been tracking the changes in behaviour in the UK for those two years. Our findings are both modest but also extraordinary in many respects. Modest, in that it is only some behaviours in some parts of the economy which have really changed. Extraordinary, in that the findings challenge aspects of the foundations which have governed how we think about and plan for mobility.

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CROSSED PERSPECTIVES

Does free transport work?

Philippe Duron, Arnaud Passalacqua

13/04/2022

The idea of making public transport free is gaining ground. By the end of 2021, 36 towns and cities in France had adopted it. Its supporters defend its benefits in terms of equality and modal shift, while its detractors criticise the cost and question the benefits. But what do the results of the experiment tell us? What are the problems that emerge, and what are the solutions? Arnaud Passalacqua, member of the French Observatory of free transport, and Philippe Duron, president of TDIE, debate…

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CONTROVERSIES

The “15-minute city”: the way forward or an ideological mirage?

Carlos Moreno, Pierre Veltz

11/04/2022

Everyone having everything within fifteen minutes of their home: this is the promise of the fifteen-minute city. The idea of a city that is peaceful because of the proximity it allows and ecological because of the reduction in travel that it entails has gained ground, and it is now part of media debates and political programmes. But are its promises really feasible? Is it fair? Is it even desirable? Carlos Moreno, the father of the fifteen-minute city, and Pierre Veltz, who questions its…

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Demobility. Back to the roots

Bruno Marzloff

23/03/2022

Bruno Marzloff can be credited with a certain constancy in his determination to promote demobility and its promises. He is the author of the Demobility page in the GART's Dictionary of Mobility published in November 2021. The exercise is contrary to the values of a progress that endures. The word is often inaudible, even shocking for many. It persists, no doubt for very good reasons. This is also why we wanted to give him the floor.

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