The UMR MATRiS scientific project focuses on the major transformation dynamics at work in transport and development systems, the means of identifying them, understanding the complexity of their interactions and modelling them.
The UMR MATRiS scientific project focuses on the major transformation dynamics at work in transport and development systems, the means of identifying them, understanding the complexity of their interactions and modelling them. It aims to shed light on, and even support, the decision-making processes in terms of mobility and development, for people, companies and public players. MATRiS brings together 19 researchers and teacher-researchers in the disciplines of planning, geography, economics, sociology and social psychology.
The scientific project of the UMR MATRiS is developed along four lines:
1.Analysis of the interdependencies between transport networks, mobility and land use.
This axis is particularly interested in 1/ the functioning and design of intermodal spaces in urban or sparsely populated areas, 2/ transport corridors, in their spatial structuring and territorial governance, 3/ the modelling of the evolution trajectories, over time, of territories influenced by the arrival or removal of a transport infrastructure.
2.Processes of public transport policy making-actors' games, territorial impact and evaluations.
Policies that have been in place for several years, or those that are positioned as a break with the past, are analysed in terms of their social, economic and environmental acceptability. Policies in favour of road safety, multimodality and the development of digital services are particularly studied here.
3.Risk-tested planning practices and networks.
In a multi-actor, multi-scalar and diachronic approach, the aim is to understand the changes that actual or potential risks can bring to spatial planning practices and the deployment of transport networks and services (freight or passengers). The risks can be both endogenous and exogenous to the system of actors considered. In particular, it is a question of analysing 1/ the dynamics of post-disaster reconstruction of natural origin, 2/ risk management in infrastructure and development projects, 3/ the perception and representations of risk, 4/ the values that underpin the coordination of stakeholders during crisis episodes.
4.Mobility routines and their adaptations (passengers and goods).
The aim is to understand the determinants of routine mobility behaviours/practices, and to measure their ability to change from the point of view of individuals and logistics companies, placed in their environment of constraints. Mobility disruption situations of all kinds will be studied in particular as revealing the plasticity of routines.
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