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Integrating environmental issues into the design of mobility plans: insights from French practices

Intégrer les enjeux environnementaux dans la conception des plans de mobilité : analyse des pratiques françaises

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Local authorities have a strategic role in mitigating the environmental impacts of the transport sector. However, they struggle to integrate environmental issues into their decision-making processes, especially planning. In the European context of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan approach and Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs), this paper scrutinises three French localities to determine the current best practices and limitations for designing mobility plans and integrating environmental issues. Several limitations are identified: (1) limited expertise in defining and characterising actions and objectives, which complexifies plans’ design, understanding, and monitoring; (2) a lack of a framework to conduct long-term quantitative environmental assessments and to use the results to influence decision effectively; and (3) monitoring processes are barely described in the documents, and the planning horizon where objectives are defined is not in sync with the indicators’ mandatory evaluation period. This French case study thus reveals that European planning practices must be further analysed and improved to deal with the rising environmental concerns, e.g. through an operational framework to design mobility plans with effective integration of environmental issues.
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hal-04627543 , version 1 (27-06-2024)

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Julien Baltazar, Ghada Bouillass, Flore Vallet, Jakob Puchinger, Nicolas Perry. Integrating environmental issues into the design of mobility plans: insights from French practices. Transport Policy, 2024, 155, pp.1-14. ⟨10.1016/j.tranpol.2024.06.019⟩. ⟨hal-04627543⟩
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