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Travel time and speed
The following article provides two points of view, one from a university professor and the other from one of the SNCF’s leading experts on high-speed travel. Their views, which are largely compleme...
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On the Move: in the Virtual and the Physical Worlds
A photographer and a sociologist discuss the relationship between real and virtual mobilities, and their increasing impact on our way of life in terms of climate change and the energy crisis.
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Leaving the Car ?
A Canadian photographer discusses the future of cars with a French urban planner. Considering the technical and ecological constrains currently faced by cars, they take into account the car’s place...
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Nomadism and neo-nomads
The term ‘nomadism’ covers many categories of people who are mobile: the Roma community, lorry drivers, fairground people, seasonal workers etc… However, over the past few decades, a new category h...
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Urban cycling
Cycling is moving up the agenda of town and city planners across Europe, given its benefits as a healthy, highly sustainable mode of transport. But how can it best be developed in today’s car-domin...
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why study super-rich mobility?
Shall we study the mobilities of the rich or those of the poor? How to understand the super-rich's virtual and material flows in relationship with those of the rest of the world population? Di...
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Mobility and conviviality in a rural environment
Is there a place for public or shared transportation in a rural environment? How can the needs of an isolated person or with reduced mobility be met? How should the ecological issues be dealt with?...
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Questioning transport Infrastructures
From one side to another of the Channel, a British sociologist and a Board Member of the SNCF discuss the impact of public infrastructures on society, from an economic, politic and social perspective.
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What are the effects of the acceleration of social rhythms?
If they agree on the reality of an acceleration of social processes, the German sociologist Hartmut Rosa and the French Geographer Michel Lussault strongly disagree on the sustained importance of s...
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Traveling without ticket?
Despite being 3,000 kilometres apart, a French intellectual and a representative of the Tallinn European Union Office come together to discuss a question which both believe to be crucial for the fu...
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Imagined mobilities
An American anthropologist and a French historian debate the significance of elected officials, transport professionals and users’ imaginaries on their choices and on decision making.
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Public Policies & professional mobility
A University lecturer and an urban planner discuss professional mobilities and their role within community life. How do public authorities and, more broadly, society and its various components deal...
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Eco-districts: the future of the city?
A Dutch expert in urban development, who founded one of her country’s leading eco-district projects, discusses the future of eco-districts with a French specialist in sustainable development. Could...
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Neo-nomads and highly mobile people
Four researchers assess the traits and similarities of and the differences between the subjects of their respective fields of study: neo-nomads, the focus of the ‘noLand’s man’ research project, and...
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Internet, territories and centralities
Boris Beaude, a geographer, and Benjamin Bayart, an engineer and ardent supporter of freedom of expression, discuss the tensions that have arisen concerning the internet, the main platform for virtual...
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Changing behaviour for a low-carbon future
British geographer Matt Watson and French sociologist Frédérick De Coninck discuss the role that practices should play in the reduction of our carbon footprint. Can taking better account of people’s...
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Questioning art and social science crossovers
Valérie Pihet and Ursula Biemann discuss the crossovers between artistic creation and scholarly research in the field of mobility. Either working together, or in parallel, these two disciplines have a...
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Motility and viscosity: a new understanding of mobility for better policy making
Through the study of mobility practices in Australia and European countries, sociologists Catherine Doherty and Vincent Kaufmann develop two different but complementary analyses of mobility potential,...
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Is mobility the answer to poverty ?
Is access to employment, services and leisure merely a matter of mobility for the most disadvantaged? What are the obstacles and alternatives? These are some of the questions Leslie Belton Chevallier...
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