This thesis entitled « Life course events and changes in daily mobility behavior » was directed by Thomas Buhler and Samuel Carpentier-Postel.
The defense will take place in the UFR SLHS (Grand Salon), 32 rue Mégevand in Besançon, at 2pm on March the 30th.
Jury composition
Thomas Buhler, UMLP, UMR ThéMA – Supervisor
Samuel Carpentier-Postel, UMLP, UMR ThéMA – Supervisor
Christophe Imbert, University of Rouen, UMR IDEES – Reviewer
Vincent Kaufmann, Professeur des universités, EPFL, LaSUR – Examiner
Patricia Sajous, Maîtresse de conférences HDR, Université Le Havre Normandie, UMR IDEES – Reviewer
Stéphanie Vincent, Maîtresse de conférences, Université Lyon 2, UMR LAET - Examiner
Abstract
The main issue of the thesis is to measure the impact of determinants linked to family, professional and residential transitions on daily mobility practices. The theoretical frameworks of mobility biographies (Lanzendorf, 2003), which allow us to understand the temporal dimension, and the life-oriented approach (Zhang, 2017), which helps us to understand mobility in the broader context of quality of life, are used to address the complexity of mobility behaviour. The methodological framework is based on the analysis of the 2018, 2019, 2023 and 2024 waves of the PANAMO survey (PAnel NAtional Mobilité - a questionnaire survey of 2,300 respondents at the outset - for the whole of France). Thanks to the temporal depth of the various waves, as well as the thematic scope of the survey, the hypotheses relating to the influence of the various factors mentioned (social, geographical, socio-cognitive determinants, life-course events, lifestyles) on mobility behaviour can be tested, using multivariate statistical models.