Facilitating movement for people who work and travel at night
The city lives to an alternating rhythm of day and night. Gradually, however, human activities are becoming freed of natural constraints – day, night, seasons … This deployment of time in urban life requires access to permanent mobility, for which our organisations are ill prepared. What can be done to make it easier for night workers to get around? What mobility services are available between midnight and 6 a.m. and what do people want? How can a viable, effective and safe transport network be organized in response to the new patterns of urban life? Human activity now extends into the night and is composing a new space of work and leisure that that generates both a diversification and a redistribution in movement patterns.
 

Night journey , international forum, nocturnal urban design, Night TOD
In February 2002, the IVM-Institut pour la ville en mouvement/PSA Peugeot Citroën [City on the Move Institute] sent representatives from all horizons into Paris and its region to compare impressions. A geographer, architect, night nurse, police commander, cultural organiser, industrialist, musician, film director, local politician, designer, social mediator and shopkeeper set off for a night journey across Paris and its region: this process culminated in brainstorming sessions, notably resulting in the definition of an original method ( the night urban strolls which has already been applied in other cities and territories and in the definition of some projects: - the international forum on the night – “the city’s forgotten dimension” – in Rome in 2004, IVM, in partnership with several municipalities around the world, - experiments are conducted in Toronto, Barcelona and Helsinki under IVM’s “Troll” program. These nocturnal urban design ideas are intended to make the city at night both more accessible and more hospitable. - a Night TOD were experimented in Belfort