Conference: Ho Chi Minh and the manufacturing of new mobilities

"HO CHI MINH VILLE (Vietnam) ET LA FABRIQUE DES NOUVELLES MOBILITÉS: un exercice sous contrainte", a conference by Clément Musil, geographer and urban planner, PhD.

Ho Chi Minh City, a metropolis of more than 10 million people, is Vietnam's main economic engine - now considered an "emerging economy", a "middle-income country". As a result of the rising standard of living of urban households, mobility practices are changing. Vietnam's cities, and Ho Chi Minh City in particular, are known for the widespread use of motorized two-wheelers for their travel. The gradual enrichment of the middle and upper middle classes is pushing them to abandon the use of motorcycles for the purchase of cars. While the metropolis of southern Vietnam is now facing increasing road traffic congestion problems, the metropolitan authorities are planning to modernise the existing public transport network and, above all, to build a vast public transport network including metro and bus lines in dedicated lanes. The creation of this network would constitute a technical solution to improve the conditions of travel of city dwellers in the metropolitan area and also an opportunity to develop and redevelop the metropolis with the construction of new districts based on the principles of Transit-Oriented Development. On the basis of an inventory of the development of the public transport network, this communication examines its implementation, which is not without imposing significant constraints on the public authorities: financing of the network; access to land rights-of-way and development of new urban districts; institutional management of the network in its construction and operation phase.

Be there, on Wednesday October 30th, 2019 at noon in room #1150 of the Faculty of Development!