Nicolas CoulombelSenior Lecturer and Researcher
École des Ponts ParisTech
LVMT
LVMT
Nicolas Coulombel, engineer from the Corps des Ponts, Eaux et Forêts, and holder of a PhD in urban economics from the Ecole des Ponts (2010), is a lecturer at the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and researcher at the Laboratoire Ville Mobilité Transport (LVMT) of Paris Est University. He is currently thescientific director of the lab recherche environnement. His main research work concerns the links between the city and transport, combining an economic approach and digital models.
Life-cycle assessment is a method to assess the environmental impacts of buildings and infrastructures throughout their life cycle, from the extraction of raw materials through to their end-of-lifetime handling.
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The environmental performance of mobility systems is linked to energy consumption, emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases and the effects of disruption and fragmentation of natural habitats due to the construction
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Scientific publications
Preprints, Working Papers, ...
Travel demand management: the solution to public transit congestion? An ex-ante evaluation of staggered work hours schemes for the Paris region
2021
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Journal articles
A comparison of Euclidean Distance, Travel Times, and Network Distances in Location Choice Mixture Models
Networks and Spatial Economics, 2019, 19 (4), pp.1215-1248. ⟨10.1007/s11067-018-9439-5⟩
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Congestion, diseconomies of scale and subsidies in urban public transportation
2019
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Appraising the environmental benefits of ride-sharing: The Paris region case study
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018, 177, pp.888-898. ⟨10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.186⟩
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The environmental social cost of urban road freight: Evidence from the Paris region
Transportation Research : Part D, Transport and Environment, 2018, 63, pp 514-532. ⟨10.1016/j.trd.2018.06.002⟩
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Why housing and transport costs should always be considered together: A monocentric analysis of prudential measures in housing access
Transport Policy, 2018, 65, pp.89-105. ⟨10.1016/j.tranpol.2017.04.011⟩
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Projects
Simulating the daily activities and mobility of people who live in or pass through a neighbourhood makes it possible to better anticipate the economic, social and environmental impacts.
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The trips generated by a neighbourhood are quantified and characterised using models for forecasting transport demand. The environmental impacts associated with these trips are then estimated using an LCA-type approach
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Pilot site
A development project in the Les Lumières Pleyel neighbourhood in Saint-Denis (93) is the testing ground for research work by MINES ParisTech and École des Ponts ParisTech.
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Practitioner groups
Research work on mobility at the neighbourhood level focuses on the development of environmental impact assessment methods that make it possible to better plan the offer of mobility services in the broad sense
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The environmental assessment of the circular economy is a recurring issue, particularly in the context of recycling aggregates in concrete or even in the context of conventional reuse.
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L'analyse de la mobilité à partir de traces numériques permet de mieux connaître le déplacement des individus. Des nouvelles formes de données, ainsi que des méthodes d'intelligence artificielle, peuvent
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