Improverail aims are to further support the establishment of railway infrastructure management in accordance with Directive 91/440, as well as the new railway infrastructure directives, by developing the necessary tools for modelling the management of railway infrastructure; by evaluating...

Les modèles stratégiques de transports urbains ont pour principe de fonctionner avec un nombre réduit de zones (de l'ordre de la dizaine), une représentation de l'offre de transport sous la forme de relations flux-vitesse entre zones et la prise en compte de la rétroaction de l'état de...

Un système de transport irrigue un espace dont tous les lieux ne jouissent pas de la même accessibilité, que cet espace soit local, national ou international. Cela pose le problème de l'inégalité face au droit au transport et plus généralement celui de l'iniquité spatiale. Dans le cas...

The objective of the report is to produce qualitative analysis of the evolution of the transport system after important infrastructure investment project, and also to produce quantitative indicators. This report corresponds to the work package 4 of the TranSEcon project whom aims is to assess...

This paper suggests understanding better the debate between reputation and celebrity, by analyzing how various types of reputations can combine (or not) to achieve celebrity. Based on a quantitative analysis of the most reputed French architects, we contribute to the reputation and celebrity...

A study of daily time allocation to travel and out-of-home activity is conducted across eight European cities over three countries: France (Lyon, Grenoble, Strasbourg and Rennes), Switzerland (Geneva, Bern and Zurich) and Belgium (Brussels), based on individual travel survey data collected...

This paper suggests understanding better the debate between reputation and celebrity, by analyzing how various types of reputations can combine (or not) to achieve celebrity. Based on a quantitative analysis of the most reputed French architects, we contribute to the reputation and celebrity...

La croissance tendancielle des revenus transforme notre gestion du temps. Comme le budget temps quotidien est rigoureusement stable, le temps devient, en termes relatifs, " le bien le plus rare ". Face à cette situation de rareté radicale, les moyens de transport rapides, cherchent à nous...

Le rapport revient, dans sa première partie, sur la définition de l'hypothèse de Zahavi, telle qu'il l'a définie. Cette définition est ensuite confrontée à la "loi de Zahavi", c'est à dire à l'idée reçue de l'hypothèse de Zahavi. Dans un second temps, le rapport analyse, le...

The paper concerns the travel activities and more specifically the urban travel time during a day. The daily TTB has been hypothesized by Zahavi (1980) as constant amount of time. First, the cities sprawl can easily be interpreted as a consequence of the increase in available speeds. And...