PROSPECTS FOR DAILY URBAN MOBILITY

This research was supported by a DATAR (the French organization for re gional development) research grant, with the aim of defining a basis f or the prospect of mobility in large conurbations. The first part of t he research is devoted to cross-section comparisons between countries as regards land use and related mobility schemes. As a result of the c omparisons, we suggest considering mobility and land use as co-produce d by political, economical and cultural determinants. This comparative exercise is used, in the second part, to build very different images of three possible futures for French conurbations, respectively labell ed, 'Saint Simonian or modernist', 'Rhenan or conservative', 'Californ ian or post-modernist'. Each of them is supported by three different d ynamics as regards the economic context, the land use and transport pl anning. They are characterized by a set of discriminant options relate d to urban planning, road and public transport issues, telecommunicati ons options. The concluding part analyses the main consequences for da ily urban mobility in the hopes of stimulating discussion.