Transportation is changing and it's changing fast! Inclusivity, environmental concerns and smart cities are all new challenges our mobility needs to tackle. Find more in our new infographics!

1. FutureofMobility
A right to mobility, that includes training and support is a
way for everyone to have the same opportunities to move
without harming others. We must, therefore, add the
environmental and social factors to the speed and cost
ones when choosing how to commute and travel.
Mobility is political. It’s an infrastructure network that
influences our policies, a world political goal, a local and
national political issue, and even sometimes, a political
force in its own right.
Intermodality is the use
of several modes of
transportation during of
the same trip.
Intermodality means
shifting from a logic of
infrastructure creation
to a user-centric logic.
TOUS ÉGAUX
FACE À LA MOBILITÉ
LIBERTÉ
ÉGALITÉ
TOUS
UNIS
LIBERTÉ
DE CICRCULER
FROM NOW ON
my transport will be…
TOMORROW
my transport will be…
INTERMODAL
OPEN SOURCE
Transport inclusiveness means giving to everyone the same opportunity to move.
It implies making it possible for every disadvantaged minority (economical,
demographical, geographical, physical, etc.) to get access to it.
In Medellin, Colombia, the
municipality equipped
difficult sloping
neighborhoods with gondola
lifts and escalators. It helped
the populations open up and
criminality to fall.
In Curitiba, Brazil, the
'Bus Rapid Transit' was
designed like the
underground metros and
makesit possible for
disabled wheelchairs to
move without a hitch.
In Bethune, France,
free shuttles pick up
over 70s at home
and take them
wherever they
want.
In Niort, France, buses
are totally free. In
addition to many
benefits, this enables
people from the most
disadvantaged social
classes to move and
participate in local life.
In Abidjan and
Seoul, the public
sector partnered
with local telecoms
to combine their
data and create or
modify relevant bus
lines.
United Nations
project that offers
to local
populations to
imagine the future
of their city by
creating it in the
famous game
Minecraft.
International
movement centered
on "civic tech". This
movement uses open
data (especially
public data) to create
new tools that
improve the lives of
citizens.
INCLUSIVE
Interoperability is the ability of systems, units and materials to operate together.
The mobility tools must henceforth be included in the logic of collective and standardized mobility.
INTEROPERABLE & CONNECTED
These new trains should theoretically exceed the
speed of sound, be less energy intensive and less
expensive. The first research on the topic dates back
from the 1900s. The technical, physical, economic or
ecological constraints are still too numerous to really
compete with current high-speed trains and to
reach the announced speeds in the near future.
The fact that they are at hand, available on a large scale by 2050
is a near certainty. Electric and autonomous cars nevertheless
raise many questions. Should we continue individual
transports in machines that are still weighed down by
batteries and sensors? Are we not risking the increase
of urban sprawl? Which economic players will drain
the benefits of this new car service model? Etc.
NEW TRAINS
ELECTRIC & AUTONOMOUS CARS
Open source makes it possible to access, redistribute freely and create works derived
from a computer code, a database or any other work of the mind.
Gondola Lifts
& Escalators
Bus Rapid TransitFree buses
Code for All Block by BlockData
combination
Free shuttle for
elderly people
Mobility As A Service (MAAS) is a
vision based on the unification of
mobility services and a fusion of
multimodal ticketing and
information tools.
Mobility As A
Service (MAAS)
In France, several cities
offer this service, like
Mulhouse with the
"Mobility Account" and
Saint-Etienne with
"Moovizy".
Since the 1980s, European countries have been
trying to harmonize their train lines by setting
network standards so as to facilitate the transition
from one country to another.
Rail network standards
Tested by European project SARTRE, the "Platooning"
consists in connecting vehicles to one another via WiFi.
Thus, the vehicles that follower a first of rope align their
actions on it, which reduces energy consumption and
traffic congestionthanks to an aspiration effect.
Platooning
Therefore, it’s
necessary to link the
different transport
facilities from the first
to the last mile:
• Urban Transport (subway,
tramway, bicycle etc.)
• Rural transport (bicycle,
carpooling, car etc.)
• Long-distance transport
(plane, train, bus,
carpooling etc.)
DONNÉES
Hyperloop
North American Hyperloop One
Virgin, Hyperloop TT and Transpod
are at the forefront of the
Hyperloop research. The train
would be elevated using magnetic
levitation and launched through a
low-pressure tube. The Hyperloop
One Virgin holds the speed record
at 240 mph. Far from the TGV
and its 357 mph.
Transrapid
The magnetic levitation train, first
used in Germany and then named
Transrapid, was abandoned after a
crash in 2006. Some lines still exist
but it is the Japanese variant, the
Maglev, which has the wind in its
sails. The Tokyo-Osaka line under
construction for 2037 will support
the latest prototype that can
go up to 375 mph.
The technologies have been known for
many years, but questions remain. Will
electric power be renewable or will it
only displace the problem? What
alternative to lithium batteries? Etc.
Autonomous cars are a near reality but here again
questions remain. How to provide enough energy
for the huge computing power needed? How to
secure connected cars in the network? What
ethical choices to accept in case of accidents? Etc.
Spacetrain
Jean Bertin's Aerotrain, a train
mounted on a cushion of air and
placed in a low-pressure tube,
reached the speed of 267 mph in
1970. French Startup Spacetrain - a
subsidiary of Jacques Vaucanson –
reuses the principles of the
Aérotrain. First tests are
planned in 2020.
AIR VEHICLES
The first drones/cars are just
taking off and their
commercials are already
announced. The prices are very
high and the difficulties they
imply (securing the airspace,
expensive and nonexistent
infrastructures, opposed to
ecological discourses, etc.)
make their large-scale
commercialization unlikely.
Skytran (USA) and Métrino
(New Zealand) are the two main
players in these new gondola
lifts. Very energy-saving,
malleable in their design, fast,
and at the same time collective,
individual and on demand
transport, they seem to match
all the characteristics of what
would be the best urban
transport of the future.
Sources : www.lesechos.fr/thema/ • « Transport en commun gratuit : ça paye, la preuve à Niort » - www.sudouest.fr
« Où en est l'hyperloop ? Le point sur les technologies-clés de ce train du futur » - www.sciencesetavenir.fr
SkyTran : Le moyen de transport qui va révolutionner nos villes - www.parismatch.com • www.blockbyblock.org
www.lametro.fr/ • Illustrations : freepik.com • « Metrino, le transport en commun du futur » - vivredemain.fr
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