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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Analyser les mobilites et le rayonnement des villes pour reveler les effets territoriaux des grandes infrastructures de transport

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The question of the impact of heavy transport infrastructures still remains a tremendous scientific enigma. They are few certainties about this problem at the moment, while a real political mystification of the effects of big amenities, known as "structuring infrastructures" develop outside the scientific community. But recent theoretical progress in geography and in regional economics, confirmed by extensive case studies, allows the investigation of new conceptual tracks to attempt to identify and understand the way these big infrastructures influence spatial structures and dynamics. Our research team gives greater importance to the study of the processes by which a transport infrastructure influences a spatial system. Among these, the one we call "process of usefulness and use" is essential. As one considers that the infrastructure provides new transport possibilities, we need to identify and then understand the way individuals and economics actors use them. This approach is applied to observe the economic effects of the A39 motorway (east of France).