The Nicolas Hulot Foundation and Wimoov (an association that promotes new forms of sustainable mobility) have joined forces to produce the Barometer of Daily Mobility. This barometer is based on a survey conducted by Chronos and the Observatory of Society and Consumption (Obsoco) among a sample of 4,000 people aged 18 to 75.
This first Barometer of Everyday Mobility highlights the strong territorial and social inequalities in terms of travel: 12 million people encounter daily difficulties in getting around. The car is still the main mode of transportation for 72% of French people. 55% of those surveyed stated that they had no choice in their mode of transportation, and of these, 84% mainly use the car. Nearly one French person in two admits to being able to make all or part of their daily trips by bicycle. In addition to the fact that it is too long a distance, the main obstacle to using a bicycle is, for 47% of those surveyed, the lack of suitable and safe infrastructures.
The Everyday Mobility Barometer also looked at the contribution of digital technology to the adoption and use of new mobility offers.
Digital uses in mobility are largely commonplace
"The use of digital technologies, and in particular the use of GPS applications to find one's way around or to calculate a route, is now widely accepted", observe the experts from Chronos and Obsoco.
71% of smartphone owners (or just over 60% of the population of metropolitan France aged 18 to 75) claim to use these types of applications during their travels - more than half of whom do so regularly.
... but very unevenly distributed
63% of the under 25s who have a smartphone often use it when traveling (more than a third of young people do not use mobility services even when they have a smartphone). This figure drops to less than 25% over the age of 55.
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This figure is only 27% among the least qualified individuals (those with a diploma level of no more than the brevet des collèges), compared with 56% among those with a diploma of more than three years' standing.
"Cultural capital and more generally the level of education are also very discriminating elements in the use of digital tools.
"This unequal capacity to use digital technologies is perceptible in the feeling of ease (or conversely of difficulty) in using them. One French person in four considers that the digital applications and services that have emerged in recent years (GPS applications for finding one's way around, carpooling platforms for connecting people making the same trips, self-service car services, VTC, cab reservations, etc.) are difficult to use. While this figure is only 6% for those under 25, it rises to over 35% for those over 55.
Less than one in four French people say they are interested in MaaS
MaaS is a public subscription card that allows the use of all transport services available in the region (public transport, cars, self-service bicycles and scooters, carpooling platform).
In order to encourage the emergence of this type of service, the Law of Orientation of Mobility (LOM) extended the obligations to open up data on the mobility offer: static data (stops, timetables, fares, etc.) and real-time data on public transport or on-demand transport, data on road networks and parking.
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observe the authors of the Barometer of Everyday Mobility.
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Even at
a relatively low price (starting at 50 euros per month), the MaaS (Mobility as a Service2 ) type subscription card does not
appeals to only a minority of the population,
Less than one in four French people say they are interested in MaaS, 45% of Parisians and 29% of people living in large cities.
conclude the authors of the Barometer,
"While the deployment of digital services will obviously bring convenience to users,
"It cannot avoid the human accompaniment of people in their travels. This is the condition to guarantee access to all services".
Photo credit: Géovelo, the French bicycle route planner
