The car remains in the majority in short trips according to INSEE. Managers and employees use public transport more than workers, who use more cars or motorized two-wheelers.
In Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, 35% of workers work at most 5 kilometers from home
In Burgundy-Franche-Comté, 35% of working people travel short distances, up to 5 kilometers, to get to work. This share is greater in the region than in provincial France. While alternatives are often possible for these journeys, car use remains the majority. Soft modes are nevertheless used in 23% of cases, and walking is used more in the region than at the national level. Public transport is used more in large cities, where the offer is substantial, and in particular by executives. Women move more often on foot and by public transport, while men prefer bicycles and cars.
David Brion, Jérôme Mathias, Hélène Ville (Insee)
In Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, in 2017, 357,600 workers traveled a short distance, at most 5 kilometers, to go to work (sources and definitions). They represent 35.2% of workers commuting from home to work, more than the average in the provinces, 33.7%. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté ranks third among the regions behind Corsica (49%) and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (41%), but far ahead of Pays-de-la-Loire (30%). These workers, who are not far from their jobs, are concentrated in areas where there is a high density of jobs and active workers.
The car predominates even for a short distance
The distance to be traveled influences the choice of mode of transport to get to work. Walking is more specific to journeys of less than 2 kilometers, and therefore concerns 36% of working people. Although it remains infrequent, the bicycle is mainly used for trips of 2 to 3 kilometers. Finally, when they travel at least 8 kilometers, more than 90% of the region’s workers travel by car. Its use is all the more frequent as the distance to be covered is long. Nevertheless, the car remains in the majority, even when the active people travel at most 5 kilometers. 69% of them adopt it for these short trips, a proportion that has remained stable in 4 years.
However, sustainable development policies aim to develop alternatives when possible. However, under the effect of peri-urbanization, workers are increasingly moving outside the poles. However, in the crowns, space is often designed for cars, not very conducive to soft modes of transport (walking, cycling).
In Burgundy-Franche-Comté, where the working people walk shorter distances than on average in the provinces, walking is more frequent. On the other hand, working people use public transport less for short trips: 6.6% against 9.2%. The small size of the agglomerations in the region does not favor dense public transport networks.
Farmers, artisans and traders work close to home
Two-thirds of farmers and almost half of artisans-traders work within 5 kilometers of their homes. To make these short trips, however, three quarters use the car. The exercise of their activity may require the use of a motor vehicle. This allows them to make multiple trips during the day, and to carry heavy loads.
Conversely, less than 30% of executives, intermediate occupations and workers work within 5 kilometers from home. When this is the case, less than half of executives use the car to get to work. They have more of the means to reside in the heart of urban areas. They are the ones who travel the most by public transport, at 22%, or by bicycle, at 8%. The workers take more cars or motorized two-wheelers. They more often live in the crowns of cities where public transport networks are less developed.
Women live closer to their jobs than men
Women are more concerned than men by home-work trips of at most 5 kilometers, 37.2% against 33.4%. They do more on foot or by public transport, and less by bicycle or car.
They often reconcile professional activity and family tasks, which can encourage them to work near their home or where their children go to school. However, the arrival of children leads parents to settle on the outskirts of cities in order to access larger and less expensive housing. Thus, they often move away from their workplace, which is located in the poles.
More developed public transport in large cities
Public transport is an alternative to the car more possible and therefore used in the large catchment areas of cities in the region. In those of Dijon and Besançon, working people, whatever their distance between home and work, travel more by public transport: from 9 to 13% against less than 1.5%, for example in Lons-le-Saunier, Luxeuil -les-Bains and Gray.
The agglomerations of Dijon and Besançon have a dense network of urban buses and a tramway allowing rapid connections along its route. Also, 38% of workers residing in the Dijon center use a non-polluting or low-pollution mode of transport (soft mode or public transport). The Dijon pole is positioned on this plan in 14th place of the 20 poles corresponding to the most populated cities in France, close to the situation of Nantes and Montpellier.
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