1. Context: the current state of personal mobility in France
To begin with, we need to define the term "transport". To do this, we need to go back to its Latin roots, combining the terms "trans", meaning beyond, and "portare", meaning to carry. To transport is to carry something or someone from one place to another.
Transportation has been an essential lever for the development of contemporary societies, and today it remains a major public policy issue.
1.1 A little history: from nomadic man to mobile sedentary man
For a long time, goods and people were moved by muscular (human, animal), hydraulic or wind power, but it was the innovations of the two industrial revolutions that brought about change and contributed to the growth of this sector of activity as such, with the advent of motorization,...
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