In the Examen à mi-parcours du livre blanc published in 2006, the European Commission alludes to the necessity to adopt « une panoplie plus vaste et plus souple d?instruments d?action » (p. 7) in order to achieve a sustainable transport policy in Union. The principle of subsidiarity...

For several years now, the theme of sustainable development (thereafter “SD”) has been approached through the capability approach (CA). Recently this notion has been used by Sen to propose a redefinition of SD in terms of “sustainable freedom” (SF), meaning: enjoying the actual freedom...

Made compulsory in France for major transport infrastructures, cost-benefit analysis is constantly being improved to achieve the best socio-economic evaluation possible. According to the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen, this analysis should meet two requirements: one ethical, the other...

- La récente révision du livre Blanc des transports en 2006 prône comme option de transport durable la co-modalité, autrement dit " le recours efficace à différents modes de transport isolément ou en combinaison " (CCE, 2006). La maîtrise de l'information, rendue possible grâce à de...

L’article propose une piste pour renouveler l’analyse du lien entre infrastructures de transport et développement économique. Elle montre la diversité de sensibilité des firmes aux infrastructures, en fonction des modalités de coordination à l’œuvre au sein des systèmes productifs...

This paper offers suggestions for rethinking and reanalysing the relation between transport infrastructure and economic development. It shows the diversity of firms? reactions to infrastructure, depending on the mechanisms of coordination at work between actors. Our research aims to show that...

The East European high-speed rail started in June 2007. It modifies the French and European transportation map and the accessibility of the beneficiary cities. Economic actors in these cities do expect a lot of positive effects: economic dynamism, new firms and population arrival, development of...

Faced with the growing criticism of the externalities of transport, and freight in particular, transport policies have gradually set sustainable development targets. Although the objectives have evolved, the levers for bringing about change have remained the same: mainly the infrastructures made...

The aim of this paper is to examine collaborative supply chain practices and their related ways of integrating an environmental dimension. Seven case studies were analysed relating to different stages of the supply chain (supply side, forward logistics, reverse logistics). We draw on...