The dark side of making transit irresistible: The example of France Dominique Bouf, David A. Hensher To cite this version: Dominique Bouf, David A. Hensher. The dark side of making transit irresistible: The example of France. Transport Policy, Elsevier, 2007, 14 (6), pp. 523-532. 10.1016/j.tranpol.2007.09.002. halshs- 00266224 HAL Id: halshs-00266224 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00266224 Submitted on 24 Sep 2008 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. BOUF D., HENSHER D. A. The dark side of making transit irresistible: The example of France. Transport Policy, 2007, vol. 14, n° 6, pp. 523-532 The Dark Side of Making Transit Irresistible: The Example of France Dominique Bouf1 LET (Transportation Economics Laboratory) Chercheur CNRS National Center for Scientific Research Lyon, France
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[email protected] 25 January 2007 (revised September 2007) Version4.0 Abstract The French experience in developing policies to reduce car use in metropolitan areas is presented in this paper as an illustration of the lack of recognition of the broader set of criteria on which specific policy frameworks should be judged.