Accessibility is a concept central to integrated transport and land use planning. The goal of improving accessibility for all modes, for all people, has made its way into mainstream transport policy and planning in communities worldwide. This unique and fascinating book introduces new...

Although accessibility is usually known by urban planners, it is often applied to only people transport. However, retailing deployment needs to relate accessibility and attractiveness to both people transport (for shopping purpose) and goods transport (for delivery purpose to retailers). This...

Dans un contexte de développement urbain « soutenable », ce papier évalue l’impact de la mise en place d’un péage urbain sur l’évolution des inégalités à partir du terrain d’étude de l’agglomération lyonnaise. Il simule ainsi une nouvelle politique de tarification par le...

This paper assesses the efficiency of cross-financing new motorway or rail projects from established toll motorways as an alternative to direct public subsidies. For new motorway projects a combination of short-run marginal social cost pricing and cross-financing is the best of the alternative...

Housing prices in the Lyon Urban area are simulated with the land use framework UrbanSim interacting with the transportation model MOSART. We focus on the Real Estate Price Model of the UrbanSim framework, which proposes the ordinary least square regression. In our simulation, the alternative...

A large number of public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been awarded in the rail sector during recent decades. A review of rail PPPs over the last 30 years shows that some of them have failed, almost as though there was a curse on railway PPPs. Despite the evidence of risks associated with...

This paper uses qualitative and comparative analysis to reveal two important findings. First, in France, if the aim of reform announced by the Minister is to re-build the SNCF's monopoly, our fear is that, instead of stimulating French railways, this will cause a downward slide in the sector by...

Le transport ferroviaire régional de voyageurs se présente depuis la fin des années 90 comme une sorte d'exception française. C'est en effet un secteur où une réforme a été conduite sereinement et a connu un réel succès, sans doute car elle a été progressive et a pris le temps de...

Dans une première partie, les auteurs adoptent l'approche classique des effets externes et de l'internationalisation : après une description qualitative des nuisances des transports en milieu urbain, ils proposent une valorisation monétaire de ces nuisances, en précisant bien au préalable...