: This paper tries to identify the anchoring factors for emerging bioeconomy activities in some territories, based on a reading of the logistic constraints of this sector which generates important flows upstream. It is based on an identification of location factors for industries using biomass; a comparison of the petroeconomy/bioeconomy “line” logistics flows and the analysis of three cases of companies: the first one remained anchored after having been bought; the other one quickly relocated; and the third one recently established. This leads to a proposal for the role of logistics governance that can contribute to anchor such activities facing highly international competition, dependent on raw materials price fluctuations and on uneven international
: Over the last thirty years, the increasing globalisation of economic exchanges has contributed to the emergence of a network of main ports linked together by maritime transport and, in particular, the lines developed by the major shipping lines or the alliances they have formed. In addition to Asian ports, and particularly Chinese ports given the national port strategy, this network of main ports has also been structured by investments made by shipping lines in port terminals intended to become their regional hubs and thus facilitate the massification of flows. From these hubs, feeders serve other ports, giving rise to a form of classification within these main global ports. This organisation has helped to shape the global value chains, or world trade routes, which are both the medium and the result of globalisation. The covid-19 health crisis, the ensuing economic crisis and current geopolitical tensions are all contributing to a possible transformation of these global value chains. The purpose of this pape[...]
: The paper presents a model designed to analyse port governance. It considers that thestakeholders ability to adopt cooperative behaviors constitutes the key element to portdevelopment. Its focus is on medium-sized European ports and fifteen cases were studied. Eachterritory was first subject to a qualitative survey and analysis of the contents of local stakeholdersdiscourse (over 80 interviews conducted). The material is rich, allowing for the comparisonbetween two or even three ports, yet the delicate nature of the relations brought to light addsconsiderable complexity to the comparison within a larger ensemble. The paper, therefore,proposes a semi-automatic treatment which helps to mitigate this difficulty by means of acomputer model based on graph theory. It involves a modelling system based on the relationsbetween the entities of the system. In this context, the relations between stakeholders wereanalysed in order to create typologies and eventually envisage some standard models ofgovernance. In order to[...]
: Lane splitting is the practice of riding a powered two-wheelers between lanes when the traffic is slow or vehicles are stopped (Sperley et Pietz, 2010). Although lane splitting is not allowed everywhere in France, it is a common riding practice among motorcyclist drivers. As transport policy is a key driver for promoting sustainable and safe transport, a first experiment (2015-2018) was conducted in eleven departments where a secure form of lane splitting was allowed on highways and urban expressways (Eyssartier et al., 2018). A second experiment is conducted since 2021 in ten new departments with eight specific conditions regulating this practice. The aim of this article is to present the results of this second experiment by analyzing the social acceptability of this road safety policy. This involves studying acceptability and therefore identifying the factors impacting the general attitude towards the measure and the behavioral intention to comply with the rules, based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance a[...]