The research activities of the Anthropolis Chair have focused on eco-innovations for sustainable urban and peri-urban development at the service of citizens and communities, tak-ing into account the interactions between mo-bility (of individuals and goods) and other sys-tems. The design, modelling and optimisation of shared mobility services, which can integrate autonomous vehicles, were thus explored. Four doctoral theses, ambitious innovation projects and national and international collaborations. The work carried out by the Anthropolis Chair team has contributed to advancing the state of the art in the field of urban mobility:

Two theses have been carried out on the modelling of the passenger experience and the synchronisation of passenger and freight flows in urban mobility systems. The results of this work have made a major contribution to advancing the Chair’s research work. By combining the viewpoints of user experience design and transport, the first thesis contributed to a deeper understanding of how travellers experience their journeys and the problems they encounter. The second thesis proposed algorithmic models to analyse the impact of shared mobility systems and to as-sist in their operational implementation.

The chair has also been involved in the di-rection of two complementary theses on the design, modelling and simulation of robotic taxi services and on the optimisation of operations for delivery robots in urban environments. These theses have extended the Chair’s vision and added a thorough understanding of the design of transport services based on autonomous vehicles.

The supervision of two innovation projects carried out with CentraleSupélec students consisting of a systematic exploration of unsatisfactory uses and situations have led to the emergence of “pockets of value”.

Numerous national and international collaborations have been set up, including those with the Square Paris team, the MADP (Mutations de l’Action publique et du Droit public) chair at Sciences Po, the Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands), the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT in Vienna), the TUMCREATE autonomous mobility research platform (Singapore), and the prospective workshop “la vie robomobile” led by the Ministry of Transport. These collaborations have enriched the reflections that have taken place, by adding multidisciplinary and international points of view, leading to joint publications with researchers from other institutions.

Finally, a total of 35 publications were published in scientific journals or presented at conferences.