Has the construction of the Channel tunnel been a factor of rapprochement of the cities of Calais and Dover and of their respective regions? Odile Heddebaut To cite this version: Odile Heddebaut. Has the construction of the Channel tunnel been a factor of rapprochement of the cities of Calais and Dover and of their respective regions?. 1er Colloque Vingt années sous la Manche, et au-delà, Apr 2015, Lille, France. hal-01355614 HAL Id: hal-01355614 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01355614 Submitted on 23 Aug 2016 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. Vingt années sous la Manche, et au-delà : Géographie et économie des transports Jeudi 19 mars 2015 Odile HEDDEBAUT, Researcher, (IFSTTAR) The French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks Tel: +33 (0)3 20 43 83 57 E-Mail:
[email protected] Has the construction of the Channel tunnel been a factor of rapprochement of the cities of Calais and Dover and of their respective regions? Abstract This article examines the possibility of two towns separated by a national border and a physical border as the English Channel to become closer following the construction of a specific transport infrastructure joining them.