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...

Les aires métropolitaines sont marquées par trois faits majeurs : l'étalement urbain, des phénomènes de ségrégation sociale et le développement de la congestion routière. Ces trois éléments poussent à accentuer les distances, spatiales, temporelles et sociales. Pour éviter que ces...

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...

Le présent article s'attache à démontrer l'intérêt des indicateurs d'accessibilité gravitaire et ce, malgré les différentes critiques qui leur sont portées par les précurseurs de la time-geography et de l'Activity Based Accessibility. Ainsi dans un premier temps, l'article prouve que...

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...

In December 2003, the French government decided to implement an ambitious transport policy with a set of significant transport infrastructure projects. So as to finance a part of this policy a new public funding agency, called AFITF ("Agence pour le Financement des Infrastructures de Transport...

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...