Ease the City Competition
Breakdown of the 2002 results

Every two years, the City on the Move Institute runs a student competition.
The aim is to create awareness among students about the issue of mobility.

The winning project in the second edition of this competition on urban mobility was ‘Waiting for teleportation... Large pilot groups, inter- and multimodal strategies for a city of proximity’ relating to the cities of Grenoble and Barcelona. Details of the results are given in the pages below.


Marie Hélène Massot, Director of Research at the National Institute for Research and Study on Transport and Transport Safety (INRETS), (France), Chair;
Jean-Yves Chapuis, Planner, Vice-President of Rennes Métropole responsible for urban forms (France);
Philippe Chollet, City on the Move Institute (France)
Nicolas Michelin, Architect, Director of the Versailles College of Architecture (France)
Daniel Latouche, Teacher and researcher at the National Institute for Scientific Research (INRS) in Montreal (Canada)
José Manuel Viegas, Professor at the Technical University of Lisbon (Portugal)



Setting the rules, selecting the teams
There were eight multidisciplinary teams, including one Chinese and one Canadian. The jury’s job was to select 3, and nominate one winner.


Competition terms
‘The study involved two parts.

At first, a field analysis on one of the three themes proposed: mobility aid services, services relating to multimodality and/or intermodality, the mobility culture as urban tourism.

Then, based on this analysis, the teams prepared a project or concrete innovative proposals relating to the problems raised.
This project was to be considered concretely in relation to one of the cities under study. Reproducibility conditions were to be presented.
Since this was a field study, the added value in their work lies in theirs observations and perceptions; what interests the jury is their own analysis—and perhaps also their description—of a reality.

The photo reportage was to serve a dual purpose: illustrative, underpinning their argument, creative and imaginative, making the photos part of the presentation process.’*

*The project presentations below constitute the jury's report.