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"Mobility without borders", find the proceedings of the MOT-IGEDD seminar!
April 2023
On February 15th, 2023, the General Inspectorate for the Environment and Sustainable Development (IGEDD) organized a seminar in partnership with the MOT, "Border areas, between attractiveness and interdependence". Its objective: to answer questions about the role of mobility and how it is taken into account in public policies.
The seminar speakers (elected officials, researchers, technicians) dealt with this issue in two parts:
Firstly, they highlighted the common issues of these spaces that form "cross-border living areas" and the different types of cooperation that are emerging. The "correspondence between living areas and mobility areas linked to the strong development of cross-border work and commuter flows" was emphasized.
During the second part of the seminar, the study of the situation in several territories (Jura, Genevois, Alsace, Lille Basin, Nord-Lorrain, etc.) showed that, although the search for connectivity is on the agenda - in particular via public transport - the performance of mobility still suffers overall from the lack of integration of approaches that transcend borders, and ultimately presents numerous discontinuities.
Several speakers emphasized that "efficient treatment of the role of mobility requires better planning to facilitate the structuring of space at the right scale", and that "the willingness of the States, but above all of the local authorities of the territories concerned, to promote approaches at the right level is essential".
The MOT's director general, Jean Peyrony, and its president, Christian Dupessey, spoke respectively at the opening and closing round tables of the event.
Find the complete proceedings of the February 15th event: click here.
Find the MOT Guide on the new challenges of cross-border mobility: click here.
As a follow-up to this event, a second seminar, entirely online, was organized on March 29th on the theme of cross-border territories facing the challenges of ecological transition. The results will soon be available.
