Arrimer les compétences individuelles des personnes âgées et l’accessibilité des territoires de banlieue pour une mobilité durable

Mobility is often addressed as a simple matter of modal choice, focusing exclusively on travel patterns, transport modes and their impacts on the environment. However, in an approach to sustainable mobility, it is equally important to assess the capacity of territories to provide good accessibility...

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Main Author: Paula Negron-Poblete
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Language:fra
Published: Éditions en environnement VertigO 2012-05-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/11761
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description Mobility is often addressed as a simple matter of modal choice, focusing exclusively on travel patterns, transport modes and their impacts on the environment. However, in an approach to sustainable mobility, it is equally important to assess the capacity of territories to provide good accessibility to everyone. This forces us to concern ourselves not only about places to which people wish to access and territories’ physical attributes, but also about the individual skills that people can apply to their own mobility, skills that evolve with a person´s life cycle. Thus, unrealized trips may actually reflect a mismatch between individual skills and territories’ physical attributes where personal mobility projects take place. Given that in the years to come the first-ring suburbs of our metropolis will be greatly affected by aging, we can already predict a decline in individual skills invested in personal mobility projects, including automobile use. What strategies seniors will be able to put forth to maintain their mobility projects if they’re no longer able to drive ? Do these aging territories will meet new capacity and mobility needs of their inhabitants ? In putting forward the link between mobility, accessibility and aging, this article aims to contribute to the debate surrounding the ability of suburban areas to enable sustainable mobility that takes into account the mobility skills of their aging populations.
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spelling doaj-art-98aef89096d74bf0ba37f18c55e361992025-08-20T03:44:39ZfraÉditions en environnement VertigOVertigO1492-84422012-05-011110.4000/vertigo.11761Arrimer les compétences individuelles des personnes âgées et l’accessibilité des territoires de banlieue pour une mobilité durablePaula Negron-PobleteMobility is often addressed as a simple matter of modal choice, focusing exclusively on travel patterns, transport modes and their impacts on the environment. However, in an approach to sustainable mobility, it is equally important to assess the capacity of territories to provide good accessibility to everyone. This forces us to concern ourselves not only about places to which people wish to access and territories’ physical attributes, but also about the individual skills that people can apply to their own mobility, skills that evolve with a person´s life cycle. Thus, unrealized trips may actually reflect a mismatch between individual skills and territories’ physical attributes where personal mobility projects take place. Given that in the years to come the first-ring suburbs of our metropolis will be greatly affected by aging, we can already predict a decline in individual skills invested in personal mobility projects, including automobile use. What strategies seniors will be able to put forth to maintain their mobility projects if they’re no longer able to drive ? Do these aging territories will meet new capacity and mobility needs of their inhabitants ? In putting forward the link between mobility, accessibility and aging, this article aims to contribute to the debate surrounding the ability of suburban areas to enable sustainable mobility that takes into account the mobility skills of their aging populations.https://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/11761accessibilitymobilityagingurban formspatial equity
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Arrimer les compétences individuelles des personnes âgées et l’accessibilité des territoires de banlieue pour une mobilité durable
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mobility
aging
urban form
spatial equity
title Arrimer les compétences individuelles des personnes âgées et l’accessibilité des territoires de banlieue pour une mobilité durable
title_full Arrimer les compétences individuelles des personnes âgées et l’accessibilité des territoires de banlieue pour une mobilité durable
title_fullStr Arrimer les compétences individuelles des personnes âgées et l’accessibilité des territoires de banlieue pour une mobilité durable
title_full_unstemmed Arrimer les compétences individuelles des personnes âgées et l’accessibilité des territoires de banlieue pour une mobilité durable
title_short Arrimer les compétences individuelles des personnes âgées et l’accessibilité des territoires de banlieue pour une mobilité durable
title_sort arrimer les competences individuelles des personnes agees et l accessibilite des territoires de banlieue pour une mobilite durable
topic accessibility
mobility
aging
urban form
spatial equity
url https://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/11761
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