Challenges and solutions

Corneil Célia 29.09.2011

*The end of car’s reign?

*A strange new person: the « altermobile »*Who is he?

*Why does he do that? The new uses of commuting time: from a lost of time to a substantial time

*Fringe elements or genius, sect or religion… Will we become like them?

*Altermobility = altermodality

*From a residual mode to a « meta-mode »* From a flow’s division to flow diversity : »meeting zone »

« shared spaces »

*A need for a pedestrian identity : the pedestrian empowerment

*Pedestrian plan Geneva: ①Contribute to stroll②Promote squares in neighbourhood③Ease pedestrian moves ④Remove obstruction⑤Reduce car traffic

*Public transport in suburban areas, useless?

an essential social role for captive public

*Mobility of older people in suburban areas*Dependance to their family / social relations

*Reduction of life to domestic environment, strong loneliness

* Ecological impact: regular trips of families and services (luch, homecare, delivery…)

*Unawareness of existing solutions or source of concerns

*Gaps between isolated ≠ connected suburban people

*Need of a massive awareness campaign

*Motility: capability to move:

Constraint Motility

Financial or times spaces : staggered hours?

Access

How to deal with a plan Skill, ability (of a person to use transportation)

The will or the idea to use the offer

Appropriation

« motility is the manner with the one a person or a group takes as its own and uses the field of possibility in terms of transport mode » V. Kaufmann

*The example of mobility workshop RATP

*Precarious public: local (France) vs car dependency models (GB, USA)

➘ France: local enchorage, both resource and a barrier to mobility

➘Great Britain, USA

*The end of public power ?

*Provide transportation for all in a context of growing inequality

*From incitement to restriction, what kind of regulation?

*To face private actor’s rise : between partnership and organisation of mobility’s ecosystem

*What will support private companies?

* « subwork »: when firms have to deal with their employees lives

*Solutions:

*Ridesharing

* Telecommuting

* Third place

*Company bus services…

*The new and old private incomers

*Car manufacturer (green cars)

*Private operator of transport: from basic transportation to traveller’s empowerment

*Intelligent services operator : mobile operator

*The user himself, a cocreator and coproductor of mobility: cooperation between travellers, crowdsourcing

* Issues and solutions of tomorrow are already there, the solutions have to be thinking today

*Contribution of prospective: a guide line in today’s decision