Four strategic priorities for sustainable and inclusive mobility
March 2025
Réseau pour la transition énergétique (CLER)
The concept of sustainable and inclusive mobility is essential to address the dual environmental and social emergency. For the first time, the TIMS programme organised a webinar on 25 March, open to all, bringing together experts and stakeholders in the field to share analyses and feedback on the solutions to be deployed.
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Bringing together stakeholders from the sustainable mobility and inclusive mobility sectors is not easy. This is the challenge facing the Cler network and its three partners, the Mob’In network, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Energie Environnement (AURA-EE) and the Réseau des Agences Régionales de l’Energie et de l’Environnement (RARE), which together run the TIMS programme.
The TIMS programme
Tims is a programme that aims to develop sustainable and inclusive mobility in France. The objective? To achieve energy savings by encouraging more sober modes of mobility while allowing people in precarious mobility situations to access essential services and fully exercise their fundamental rights.
How can sustainable and inclusive mobility be deployed?
For the four structures of the Tims programme, deploying sustainable and inclusive mobility in the territories involves four strategic axes illustrated by the testimonies of actors in the field
Implementing packages of solutions
It is imperative to offer several complementary solutions in a multi- and intermodal logic, which may include active, shared and solidarity-based mobility and reverse mobility or even demobility projects. This is, for example, what the Maison de la mobilité in Haute-Loire is proposing: ‘awareness-raising, support, training on these new solutions and then shared mobility solutions for the public,’ said Amandine Plaindoux, coordinator of this Tims project.
Offering individual and collective support
It is not enough for a mobility solution to exist for it to be used. It is not enough for a solution to be known for it to be adopted. The projects place support at the centre of their actions. ‘The Cœur de Loire community of municipalities has focused on the communication and information aspect,’ explained Nicolas Jouanin, sustainable mobility project manager, who helped develop a one-stop shop for sustainable and inclusive mobility. Rémy Cassabel, director of the Lozère mobility agency, emphasised the importance of providing real support for change over time to the relevant groups and local authorities.
Promoting territorial cooperation
The development of sustainable and inclusive mobility must always be understood as a regional development project and for this reason ‘requires the mobilisation of a regional ecosystem in the service of shared governance of mobility’, Sonia Devaux pointed out. She went on to say that ‘special importance must be given to citizen participation, both in the development and in the implementation and evaluation of projects’.
Supporting the professionalisation of the sector
‘We have feedback from local authorities who have told us how difficult it is to promote a vision of sustainable AND inclusive mobility because they are limited by the lack of expert profiles,’ emphasises Sonia Devaux. This is why the TIMS programme has set itself the task of training professionals in two professions: that of advisor and that of sustainable and inclusive mobility development manager. This professionalisation approach also incorporates a strong dimension of experience sharing, as well as an approach of monitoring and evaluating achievements.
In total, nearly 71 projects throughout France offer a range of solutions and support the most vulnerable members of society in regaining access to their rights, work, social life and culture. They embody the vision of the four stakeholders in the TIMS programme and help to develop and professionalise this still emerging sector.