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The Urban Transport System
[Le système des transports urbains]

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  • Alain Bonnafous

    (LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

The urban transport system is halfway between a residency and activity location system and a complex system of social relations and practices. It irrigates the town by responding to its changes. To a large extent, it actually enables change. Towns would not have been able to spread over such a wide area if walking or animal traction had been the only means of transport. However, this transport system also has its own dynamic comprising two types of competition. The first, which is as old as the town itself, is the competition for the use of the highways. The second has to do with technological development and is the competition between means of transport. Both interact in accordance with increasingly well-known mechanisms, to the extent that this dynamic can be represented by a simulation model. Such a model can be used to explore the possible future prospects for the transport system based on economic developments and alternative transport policies.

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  • Alain Bonnafous, 1996. "The Urban Transport System [Le système des transports urbains]," Post-Print halshs-01420368, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01420368
    DOI: 10.3406/estat.1996.6087
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