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Expert appraisals
Rail freight
IFSTTAR fuels the
public debate
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Land
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Sea
Land
Rail transport is now treated as a separate sector by
IFSTTAR, which is increasingly in demand in this field.
In the autumn of 2010, the Development Directorate
of Réseau Ferré de France asked Antoine Frémont, a senior
research in the SPLOTT unit, to carry out a study of freight
issues in connection with the new Paris-Normandy line. The
document was published in the supplementary studies section
of the website that hosts the public debate on the new
line (http://www.debat-public-lnpn.org/documents/etudescomplementaires.html).
The new line obviously operates passenger services, but it is
also part of a larger planning project that sets out to improve
links between the Paris Region and its seaboard. Transporting
freight by rail to or from the Paris region and beyond is essential
in order to strengthen the European position of the two major
sea ports of Le Havre and Rouen, as well as that of Dieppe,
Caen and Cherbourg.
After placing the Normandy seaboard within its European and
national context, the study highlights the conditions that are
necessary for the development of rail transport, paying particular
attention to the consolidation of flows, which contrasts with
the disseminated flows produced by road transport flows. The
addition of this freight corridor to European corridors may also
help to extend hinterland of Normandy’s seaports.
In September 2011, Antoine Frémont joined RFF’s development
directorate as regional planning officer.
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Land
Key
Competition between ports for hinterlands: theoretical diagrams.
© Frémont A. 2010
Sea port
Inland terminal
Major sea link
Secondary sea link
Consolidated inland service
Hinterland
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@ CONTACT
antoine.fremont@rff.fr
Pre-haulage and post-haulage
by combined rail-road transport.
Museography
The contribution of ethnology
In 2010 and 2011, Anne Jarrigeon, an ethnologist
employed as a researcher and teacher at the LVMT,
carried out an unusual expert appraisal for the Scientific
Commission in relation to the cultural and scientific
schedule for the planned urban transportation museum
at Chelles (1) .
Anne Jarrigeon’s contribution related in particular
to locating archives for the Association for the Urban,
Interurban and Rural Transportation Museum (AMTUIR)
and developing approaches for the association to follow in
(1) The project for this museum currently has the backing of
the Département of Seine-et-Marne, the Île-de-France Region,
the Ministry of Culture and the RATP.
a museum. She also turned her attention to collections of
vehicles and various objects and the documents collected
by the association.
This young researcher was appointed to an IFSTTAR-Marne-la-
Vallée University “chair of excellence” three years ago. When
preparing the new permanent exhibition entitled Des transports
et des hommes at the Cité des Sciences, which opened in
autumn 2011, she also carried out two ethnographic studies
on travel objects and the Gare du Nord, which is emblematic
of contemporary multimodal systems.
@ CONTACT
anne.jarrigeon@ifsttar.fr
jean.laterrasse@ifsttar.fr
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