Ecomobility

The ecomobility is the study then the installation, in urban medium, of the least polluting modes of Transport S.

One finds, in the order: walking, the Bicycle S, the Vélomobile S with the daily newspaper (these two last forming the urban Cycling), the Public transport (drunk, tram, train, subway) then the Covoiturage. To use its car only (E) ( car-solo or car-solisme ) becomes possible only when the other modes are not usable.

The public authorities, in partnership with associations, stick by the studies of ecomobility to manage the peaks of pollution putting out of order the operation of the cities and harming their economic performances. They index reflected them on the population and its incidence on the health system. They redefine the means of bringing the children to the school without economic overcost for the households with a ecology-policy foreground.

The modes of displacement in the street or on road without contribution of energy other than human (in theory without engine, with autogenous motricity) are called:

soft mobilities,
soft circulations,
soft modes,
soft displacements,
soft transport.

These expressions recover vague regroupings being able to associate motorized transport (for example electric bicycle, use of public transport). They indicate modes of displacements which do not follow obligatorily the rules of current use of the public domain for safety (highway code, local by-laws). Those are in revision of means brought in work as well to the national level by ministerial delegation, as local (by the areas in France,) by the municipalities (problems of ice-skating, board with casters and bicycles urban on the pavements, the ways reserved for public transport, in the passages of station, or being embarked in the buses).

Some French figures:

10% of displacements in the car makes less than 500 m,
52% of displacements in the car make less than 3 km.

See too

Day without car | Autopartage | Covoiturage
ADEME
multimode Poles of transport

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