Territorial governance of logistics at the regional level : between competition and cooperation, consultation and conflict. The case of the Occitania Region ; La gouvernance territoriale de la logistique à l'échelle régionale : entre compétitions et coopérations, conflits et concertation. Le cas de ...
In a context of globalization of flows and productive systems, infrastructure and logistics activities play a major role in the economy and confront territories with new challenges. For the last twenty years, the development of logistics activities has been the joint response of the tension in flow and the manifestation of the growing outsourcing of logistics by industrial and commercial companies. Thus, a new economic sector is built from the 1990s which can be considered as a lever of the economic competitiveness and attractiveness of territories (Masson and Petiot, 2012). This issue is highlighted by the French State in the meetings of the National Conference on Logistics which resulted, in 2017, in the definition of a national strategy for logistics «France Logistique 2025» based on a framework document that puts regions at the heart of the strategy (National Logistics Conference, 2017). In addition, the spatial dynamics of logistics sites raise major challenges in terms of sustainable development. Increasingly associated with intensive land resource practices, logistics platforms are highly space-consuming. They concentrate large flows of goods, which are highly demanding on the transport system, especially on the road. The question of logistical planning covers covers the delicate issues of land control in urban areas but also modal shifting. In a context of globalization of flows and productive systems, infrastructure and logistics activities play a major role in the economy and confront territories with new challenges. For the last twenty years, the development of logistics activities has been the joint response of the tension in flow and the manifestation of the growing outsourcing of logistics by industrial and commercial companies. Thus, a new economic sector is built from the 1990s which can be considered as a lever of the economic competitiveness and attractiveness of territories (Masson and Petiot, 2012). This issue is highlighted by the French State in the meetings of the National Conference on ...