In order to evaluate changes in mobility behavior of residents of station neighborhoods, Apur analyzes eight neighborhoods that hosted a public transport station between 2008 and 2018. The results show a significant drop in household automobile ownership.
In these 8 neighborhoods (Les Agnettes, Asnières – Gennevilliers Les Courtilles, Créteil – Pointe du Lac, Front Populaire, Mairie de Montrouge, Villejuif – Louis Aragon, Châtillon-Montrouge, Saint-Denis – Porte de Paris), it is thus noted a sharp increase in the number of households without a car (+31%) and a significant drop in the number of households equipped with several cars (-12%). Fewer working residents also use the car to get to work. Considering the downward metropolitan trends, the results show greater declines in the station districts of the study. With 0.61 cars per household in 2020, the drop in the average number of household cars after the improvement of public transport is -13% in the station areas of the study; it is -7% in Greater Paris excluding Paris over the same period.
In 2020, 24% of workers in the station areas of the study go to work by car, a drop of -19% after the improvement of public transport; the drop is -8% in Greater Paris outside Paris over the same period. And in the station districts of the study, the drop in automobile equipment after the improvement of public transport translates into a drop in the household car fleet and the demand for residential parking (-1,700 cars) despite the increase in the number of households over the period (+12%).
These analyzes confirm and measure significant changes in household behavior regarding the car after the improvement of public transport. They also highlight the challenge of better integrating these developments in the particular territories that are the station districts, in local surface and off-street parking policies and in favoring an intercommunal approach, as recommended by the project. of Mobility Plan in Île-de-France. As the population censuses published by INSEE progress, this work can be deployed and deepened with the recently opened metro stations, in particular the 18 metro stations created between 2020 and 2024.
