OPINIONS

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"…

Thematics : Policies

OPINIONS

‘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.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies

OPINIONS

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,…

Thematics : Policies, Theories

OPINIONS

“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.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies

OPINIONS

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.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies

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…

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies, Theories