Groupe Chronos

In the case of the car, which is the source of the largest number of journeys, the market has exacted harsh punishment. Sales have plummeted
while the consumption indicators (fuel and mileage) have been decreasing slowly but surely for over a year. Motorists are still with us, and will be for a long time to come, but they are baffled when confronted with the reorganization of mobility behaviour. It seems as if the users themselves are in the process of reformulating their own vision of mobility. The crisis is sharpening people's judgement. They are realising that the pendulum has swung too far in terms of the car - in distance, time, costs, and wider damage. The car has caused cities to sprawl unreasonably and, as a consequence, daily travel time has lengthened too (the distance between home and work has increased ten-fold in France in the last ten years). How can we tackle the issue of mobility within accessible parameters at a time when the indicators have been sent into a tailspin? Does the solution involve solely transport provision? Questions we might well ask ourselves.

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