||| Main research lines

Research activities at LET are organised around three main lines:

– “Land and time use by individuals or organisations”: this refers to geographic and temporal dynamics of mobility, through analysis of activity location of households and firms, accessibility, time-budgets and activity patterns, in developed or developing countries.

– “Markets, organisations and incentives”: at the junction of public and industrial economics, transport sector is a good example of market failures but also public decision failures. Research activities here refer to cost-benefit analysis, pricing and assessment, including inequality, acceptability and equity issues in transport policy, and more recently benchmarking and efficiency of contracts in the context of deregulation of transport markets.

– “Modelling of passenger and freight transportation”: this is a tradition in our laboratory and this continues today with efforts to renew urban passenger and freight transport modelling, including the interaction with activity locations, and more recently the development of agent-based simulation models.