L’accessibilité aux commerces dans l’aire de vie avignonnaise

Abstract

For 30 years, changes in the urban form (urban sprawl allowed by the massive use of automobile) and changes in the urban functioning (emergence of new rhythms more individual) have engendered strong inequalities in the accessibility to urban facilities. First we give for Avignon urban area some examples of these inequalities in the case of space-time accessibility to stores. Then we discuss the means to reduce them by acting on the temporal part of accessibility (opening hours of the shops) and on its spatial part (location of the shops and means of transportation to join them).

Keywords

• retailing
• accessibility
• urban rhythm
• Avignon