Nicolas CoulombelResearcher and lecturer
Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées
LVMT
LVMT
Nicolas Coulombel, a member of the Corps des Ponts, Eaux et Forêts and holder of a doctorate in urban economics (2010), is a senior lecturer at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées and a researcher at the Laboratoire Ville Mobilité Transport (LVMT) of Université Paris Est. He is currently the scientific director of the lab recherche environnement. His main research work concerns the links between the city and transport, combining an economic approach with numerical 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
Journal articles
What kind of cars do people drive? Including fuel type and emission standards in a car ownership model
Travel Behaviour and Society, 2027, 46, pp.101391. ⟨10.1016/j.tbs.2026.101391⟩
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Conference papers
Towards a Comprehensive Assessment of On-Demand Autonomous Vehicle Services in Rural Areas in Île-de-France Using Multi-Agent Simulations
World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), Jul 2026, Toulouse, France
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Conference papers
Towards a Comprehensive Assessment of On-Demand Autonomous Vehicle Services in Rural Areas in ˆIle-de-France Using Multi-Agent Simulations
World Conference of Transport Research, Toulouse School of Economics; Université Toulouse Capitole, Jul 2026, Toulouse, France
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Conference papers
The Price of Speed: Estimating Intensive-Margin Responses to Fuel Prices on French Toll Motorways
ITEA 2026 Annual Conference, International Transportation Economics Association (ITEA), Jun 2026, Bergame, Italy
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Conference papers
Quels services de mobilités régionales en France? Une comparaison train et autocar
7e Rencontres Francophones Transport Mobilité (RFTM), Jun 2025, Dunkerque, France
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Projects
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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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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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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