Äerdschëff asblMOBILAB · investigate before decidingMOBILAB Greater Region · shared method in preparation
The protocol treats the vehicle as one component of a use configuration. A negative or conditional finding is a complete finding.
Central research question
In which cases, for which groups and under what infrastructure, safety, maintenance, cost and governance conditions can light intermediate vehicles meet mobility needs without shifting costs or excluding certain uses?
Examination process
The shared method aims to make cases comparable without erasing differences between territories, groups and conditions of use.
Open a real case with a task, a target group, a route, a baseline situation and a local lead.
Validate legal, insurance, ethical, data, vehicle, route, safety and maintenance requirements.
Build a corpus of logs, interviews, costs, incidents, refusals, withdrawals and maintenance operations.
Align purpose, origin, destination, time slot, load and comparator as closely as possible.
Link each proposition to supporting evidence, a contradiction and a rival explanation.
Close each case with a reasoned verdict: continue, adapt, suspend or stop.
Principles
The protocol must enable citizens, associations, experts and municipal services to contribute, challenge and request revision of an interpretation.
Technology is not the conclusion.
Habitability varies with bodies, resources and territories.
The real ability to refuse or withdraw is part of the inquiry.
Every verdict must be traceable to the records that support or contradict it.
Five territorial capacities
The four working groups are: uses and groups; vehicles, safety and maintenance; governance, funding and law; data, evaluation and transfer. Decision-making remains cross-cutting and connects evidence, contradictions and responsibilities.
Scope of the inquiry
Action research connects investigations rooted in specific places. Shared questions and evidence make it possible to compare practices, constraints and outcomes, without assuming that a solution can be replicated unchanged from one place to another.
ZFT Sud, in preparation as part of a translocal approach.
Vehicles, availability and responsibilities to be confirmed for each project.
Provisional planning horizon. Territorial trial dates will depend on agreements and funding.
Continue, adapt and retest, suspend or stop.
Äerdschëff asbl · the method and scientific collaborations still need to be formalised. No university affiliation is presumed.