French territories and mobility: growing inequalities in transport networks?

The notion of equality blurs the technocratic and often centralizing rationality of the transport system deployed in France. It is no longer the financial equilibrium or even the profitability of the system that counts, but its promised accessibility to all citizens. First, it is necessary to take the measure of the unequal nature of the decades of transport development since the Second World War. Then the analysis of the future leads to question the specific constraints and opportunities offered by rail and road, especially when examined in terms of equality. Two territorial mobility policies must then be distinguished and will decide the future, more or less unequal, of transport.