that is preparing the transition to more desirable and sustainable lifestyles.
It oversees research, publishes works,
and organizes events for the arts and sciences.
Being a bicycle delivery rider: passion or exploitation?
With the general uberization of the economy and evolutions in consumer practices, meal delivery services have grown significantly in recent years. With the Covid pandemic driving the increase in the number of restaurants and clients using [...]
The place of the imaginaries of speed and slowness in the evolution of mobility infrastructures
By taking the issue of speed or slowness as an entry point, this research questions the way in which the design or adaptation of mobility infrastructures reveals a change in the relationship to space-time. This work is unique in that it [...]
Mobility and lifestyles survey: the residents of Île-de-France want change!
On the eve of the first debate between the candidates for the regional elections in Île-de-France on “mobility, lifestyles and ecology”, the Mobile Lives Forum presented the results of a survey on the new habits and desires of the residents [...]
Can autonomous vehicles on the road play a part in the ecological transition?
For several years now, autonomous vehicles, also called self-driving vehicles, have been greeted with extraordinary enthusiasm. They are presented as the future of motorized mobility, whether in terms of safety, services or ecology, and [...]
Manuel de sociologie des mobilités géographiques, by Leslie Belton-Chevalier, Nicolas Oppenchaim and Stéphanie Vincent
While mobility in all its forms has been the subject of an increasing amount of research over the past twenty years, this handbook provides a synthetic overview of the work devoted to spatial mobilities and offers a sociological definition [...]
Autonomous vehicles: what role do they have in the mobility transition?
At a time when companies and governments are focusing all their energy on innovation, autonomous vehicles seem to embody the quintessential breakthrough that promises to revolutionize the future of automobility. Throughout the world, all [...]
Twelve discourses of climate delay in the transport sector
Perhaps one of the few good news of the 2020s is that climate denial is on its way out. In most of Europe, it has become hard to find public figures or organisations that outright deny the reality of human-made climate change. The bad news [...]
Mobilities: the French government has to back up its environmental ambitions with the means to achieve them
In the field of transport, the ecological transition is inadequate to meet the challenge set by the targets. An ambitious planning policy must cover all areas related to our travels: work, health, education and land management.
