Daily mobility of working people living in sensitive urban areas and access to employment: An econometric analysis based on the Lyon household travel survey.

Summary While the opening up of sensitive urban areas is one of the objectives of urban policy, aimed in particular at promoting access to employment, very few studies have analyzed the mobility practices of their inhabitants. Focusing on the working population of the Lyon urban area, the objective of this article is to test the impact of place of residence, through the ZUS/non-ZUS distinction, on their daily mobility and that related to work in particular. The analysis is based on the latest Lyon Household Travel Survey (2006) enriched with other spatialized data sources. The results of the multivariate models show that living in a ZUS neighborhood reduces the number of trips made by working people, as well as their distance and time on a daily basis. In contrast, when it comes to commuting alone, workers in these neighborhoods have to travel longer distances. These results suggest the specific difficulties of working people in deprived urban areas in terms of daily mobility and access to employment and amenities.