As part of the Tripode working group (Digital Transitions – Regulations, Infrastructure, Practices, Data), we are organizing a seminar on Thursday, December 18, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., dedicated to the theme of platformization in the mobility sector. The seminar, which will take place in room A421 (LVMT, Bienvenue Building), aims to fuel our collective thinking on the restructuring of urban services and infrastructure in the digital age.
We will have the pleasure of listening to and discussing the following three presentations:
- Guillaume Fournier (Latts): Changes in the French model of urban services in the smartphone era: towards platformization of organization?
- Timothée Mangeart (LVMT): Self-service: an observation post for changes in urban mobility services?
- Virginie Boutueil (LVMT): Growth and competition dynamics of digital shared mobility platforms on a global scale
These three presentations will analyze the gradual institutionalization of platforms in the field of mobility, exploring different facets of this process and its effects. Based on an analysis of the development of self-service in the Paris region, Timothée Mangeart highlights the dualization of mobility policies and the challenge of controlling street space in order to regulate new mobility services. By studying the case of Keolis, Guillaume Fournier focuses his analysis on the restructuring of urban service models. While this is a destabilizing factor, he demonstrates that, paradoxically, digital technology is strengthening the historic partnership between public transport authorities and private operators through a process of platformization of urban service organization. Finally, Virginie Boutueil will present the latest findings from the Global Observatory of Digital Shared Mobility Platforms, which, since 2018, has been analyzing their growth, their distribution across different geographical scales, the services offered to users, and the forms of competition at work in the markets in which they operate.
For those who are unable to attend in person, here is a Zoom link to watch the session.
https://univ-eiffel.zoom.us/j/84400668012?pwd=QO2s57RlxgvRnKnbNHQKEyU3ab5OUQ.1
Meeting ID: 844 0066 8012
Password: 897zbJ5q