Can We Organize Sustainable Mobility?

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Can We Organize Sustainable Mobility?

Favre, Bernard

This chapter focuses on what helps encourage sustainable transport. Transport can indeed become sustainable: either by changing its ingredients (vehicles, infrastructure, organization) in the context of a transport system; or by changing its “driving force”: the expectations in terms of mobility and the determinants of these expectations. The review of sustainable mobility principles leads us to revisit both the objectives of mobility and the (transport) means. Implementation of the massification principle leads to a considerable increase in the efficiency of transport systems. Work on urban logistics allows us to better understand the characteristics of goods mobility within an urban area. There is also a focus on the integration of multimodal platforms in urban space and their transformation into real soft mobility attractors. Because of rising awareness, a number of cities will progressively demonstrate how to manage the difficulty regarding implementation, governance and economics of more sustainable urban logistics systems.