Les routines de déplacement dans les espaces périurbains : les dimensions collectives des agencements quotidiens

Abstract

The paper aims to understand how daily travel routines shape a certain suburban way of life. It is based on a corpus of « on-board » interviews carried out with commuters from Grenoble and Aix-en-Provence suburban areas. We first illustrate how individuals organize their daily trips in accordance with their activities, which are scattered across a territory, which includes central workplace and peripheral residential areas. We show that routines are embedded in a dynamic complex process integrating different stages: testing, stabilization and adaptation phases. They are the foundation of the socio-spatial mobility system of suburban inhabitants. Finally, we discuss how the process of routinization contributes to emerging effects on the formation of social groups sharing suburban mobility and living conditions.

Keywords

• daily mobility
• daily routine
• suburban area
• on-board interview