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Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss

Despite raising awareness of sustainable behavior and considerable investments in the public transport network and active mobility infrastructure, car use remains the main practice for daily mobility in Switzerland. This work postulates that resistances to ...

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Mise en place d'une communauté tarifaire en France pour les transports publics urbains, interurbains et régionaux : application à l'exemple de la Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Indéniablement associée à l’idée des transports publics en Suisse, en Allemagne et en Autriche, l’utilisation d’une tarification unifiée entre les réseaux de transports urbains, périurbains et régionaux est encore peu répandue en France. À l’exception de l ...

2020

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Alexis Gumy, Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss

In a society where car use is still predominant, resistance to modal shift questions traditional planning approaches. While lifestyles are diversifying, public transit timetables are still mainly based on commuting. This paper proposes a new, interdiscipli ...

2020

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2020

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