Yet a growing proportion of the population cannot achieve this mobility. Why? Because they failed their driving test, because they can't read an underground map, because they live in the countryside with no public transport, or because they can't afford to buy and maintain a car.
These obstacles to mobility prevent people accessing work, education and other resources of social inclusion.

Housing, health and education are three conditions of social integration, familiar of old and now well-known. A fourth condition is now emerging in our dispersed society: Mobility. That is the subject of this book.

We go into the field, and describe the mobility difficulties of single women, people of immigrant origin, young people and older unqualified people. We also examine the innovative approaches taken by social workers involved in the new field of mobility aid.

Issue 347 of the journal Urbanisme contains a 35 page special feature produced in partnership with Institut pour la ville en mouvement (City on the Move), on the topic of mobilities and exclusion.This feature reports on the debates held in Saint-Nazaire in October 2005, at the “Mobilities for Integration” Forum run by IVM, which was attended by 450 participants: professionals from the world of social action and transportation, experts, and representatives of local and national government.

It includes interviews, round table debates and articles:
viewpoints by professionals or politicians:
Bernard Reichen, Urban Planning Award 2005, Michel Destot, Mayor of Grenoble and Chairman of the GART (transport leaders group), François Ascher, Professor at the French Institute of Urban planning and Chairman of IVM’s Scientific and Strategy Committee,
accounts by institutions such as ANPE (department of employment), STIF (Paris regional transport federation), associations involved in integration or local social agencies, urban planning agencies such as the Greater Lyon group, etc.
articles by Eric le Breton, (sociologist at the University of Rennes 2), on the role of mobilities in social integration and by Jean-Pierre Orfeuil, Professor at the University of Paris12 and Chairman of IVM’s university chair, who gives an international comparison of measures taken to facilitate day-to-day mobilities for the return to work.

The feature was prepared by Antoine Loubière, editor-in-chief of Urbanisme, and Eric le Breton, scientific head of the City on the Move Institute’s “Mobilities for Integration” program.
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IVM looks at mobility on the big housing estates

At the request of the scientific evaluation committee of the National Urban Renewal Agency (ANRU), Jean-Pierre Orfeuil, Professor at the Paris Institute of Urban Planning (University Paris XII) and President of the City on the Move Institute Academic Chair; and Jean-Marc Offner, Professor at the National Institute of Civil Engineering (ENPC) and director of the Techniques, Regions, Societies Laboratory (LATTS), have suggested ideas for including mobility as an issue in urban regeneration projects (social housing neighbourhoods, big housing estates).