Towards Sustainable Mobility Indicators: Application to the Lyons Conurbation

Towards Sustainable Mobility Indicators: Application to the Lyons Conurbation

[SHS:ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economy and finances

Trip distance

Daily mobility

Sustainability indicators

Household travel survey

Methodology

Pollutant emissions

Expenditures

Global costs

This paper applies the theme of sustainable development to the case of urban transport and daily mobility of the inhabitants of a city. A set of indicators which simultaneously takes the three dimensions of sustainability––environmental, economic, and social––into account is suggested. We present here the results of exploratory research funded by Renault Automobile Manufacturers, carried out to verify the feasibility and the usefulness of elaborating such sustainable mobility indicators. Values of the economics, environmental and social indicators are presented for the Lyons case. These estimations are mainly based on the household travel survey held in this city in 1994–1995. In the end, this set of indicators should allow the comparison of different urban transport strategies within an urban area, but also between different urban contexts, and through time. The conditions of generalization of these measurements of indicators are then discussed.

Nicolas, Jean-Pierre

Pochet, Pascal

Poimboeuf, Hélène

Transport Policy

ISSN:0967-070X

Transport Policy

Transport Policy

2003

ENG

article in peer-reviewed journal

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00068232

DOI: 10.1016/S0967-070X(03)00021-0

PUBLICNRS: 494320

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/06/82/32/PDF/tpolicy_def.pdf

Oxford

United Kingdom