Quelle mobilité pour la ville de demain ? Un regard croisé des experts et de la littérature scientifique

Abstract

Transportation infrastructure and mobility contribute to define the city of the future. They have to take into account the emergence of new technologies, the diversification of transport modes and the evolution of practices. Taking these aspects into account can promote and accelerate the transition to the city of the future, with a positive social, environmental and economic impact, in order to cope with the foreseeable changes in the context. This article proposes an exploratory analysis of the urban mobility and transport evolutions. For this purpose, we have studied the scientific literature on mobility, transport and their evolution using a lexicometric approach. This approach was completed by a set of interviews with experts in the field of transport and mobility. These interviews led to a qualitative and lexicometric analysis. The combination of these different analyses allowed us to identify the most important points of the evolution of mobility and transport, as well as to see the difference in viewpoints between these two groups. Thus, the scientific literature proposes many works highlighting technological innovations, while the experts have rather focused on the evolution of practices and discussed the notion of parsimony in mobility. However, these two visions are complementary and lead to several paths for the mobility of the city of tomorrow.

Keywords

• evolution
• transport
• city
• future
• prospective
• urban mobility