CURRICULUM VITAE

ÉTAT CIVIL

First name: Manuel
Last Name: APPERT
Date of birth: 09/30/1977
Place of birth: Guingamp, Brittany, France
Nationality: French

Personal address: 7, rue des Amandiers
F-34510 Florensac.
Téléphone: +33 4 67 77 93 54
Email:

Address of the host laboratory: UMR ESPACE, Maison de la Géographie
17, rue Abbé de l’Épée
F-34090 Montpellier.
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Current situation: PHD student with grant from the french department of research, UMR ESPACE 6012-CNRS; trainee lecturer at University Paul Valéry, Montpellier III (CIES — French Education department)

DIPLOMAS

Post Graduate diplomas

Doctorate in Geography. Thesis (estimated completion: 2004) directed by Professor Henry Bakis, Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III and Laurent Chapelon, Lecturer at the Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III.
Specialization: Transport Geography/ Urban Geography / modelization.
Title of the Thesis: Urban transport — land use interactions in the London metropolitan region: Which levels of accessibility can lead to a sustainable metropolitan region?
Language: French

Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies in Geography, spatial changes, presented in june 2000 at the Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III. Directed by Henry Bakis and Laurent Chapelon.
Title of the DEA: Integrated transport and urban regions: Which levels of accessibility can lead to a sustainable transport network? 145 p.
Mark: Très bien
Language: French

Master in Geography, presented in september 1999 at the Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III. Directed by Laurent Chapelon.
Title of the essay: Integrating congestion in the measure of spatial accessibility of the Thames Estuary area. 193 p.
6 months spent at Sussex University, Birghton, UK, with the ERASMUS programme.
Mark: Très bien
Language: French

Undergraduate diplomas

Licence Géographie, passed in 1998, at the Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III.
Mark: Bien

DEUG de Géographie, passed in 1997, at the Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III..

Baccalauréat «Economics» passed in 1995. Mark: Bien..

RESEARCH

• Thesis of Doctorate

  Thesis directors: Henry Bakis & Laurent Chapelon

  Host Laboratory: UMR 6012 ESPACE

  University: Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III

  Date of beginning of the thesis: October 2000

  Title of the thesis: Urban transport — land use interactions in the London metropolitan region: Which levels of accessibility can lead to a sustainable metropolitan region?

  Keywords:: transport, cities, density, accessibility, sustainability, modelization, spatial strategy, London.

  Abstract:

  We postulate that metropolitan space and transport networks have intense relations in the short, medium and long term. The daily interactions which materialize by the human mobility patterns translate into a certain metropolitan spatial organization.

  These interactions also seem to have a space range in the longer term, the joint evolution of land use and transport networks inducing the metropolitan system footprint.

  Our work is to try to identify the most significant interactions between the transport network and the land use variables in the perspective of defining a sustainable metropolitan system.

  In this context, we would like to test, via various accessibility measures, the so-called sustainable effects of high densities, urban compactness, urban functional mixity, urban settlements geometry jointly with Public transport developments, road policies and integrated networks.

  This research is more specificaly dedicated to the spatial organization of the London metropolitan area including the Greater London, South East and Eastern regions.

  Methods:

Statistical analysis of the «transport» and «land use» variables (variance and factor analysis).

Formalization of the interactions.

Graph theory and associated algorythm

GIS (Mapinfo and Arcview)

Accessibility indices. (network measures and areal measures)

Current stage of the thesis: modelling.

Estimated completion of the thesis: 2004

• Scientific publications

  Oral communications:

  Manuel APPERT, Laurent CHAPELON, 2001, The urban traffic system vulnerability: definition and measures, Communication at the 12^th international colloquium of theoretical and quantitative Geography, St Valéry en Caux, France, September 2001.

  Manuel APPERT, 2002, Les interactions transport - formes urbaines dans la région métropolitaine de Londres, Communication aux journées de l’AFITL, journée Eric Tabourin, 27 septembre 2002.

  Manuel APPERT, 2003, Interactions transports - espace urbain dans la région métropolitaine de Londres: quelles accessibilités pour un développement régional durable? Rencontres du SEDER, Université Montesquieu, Bordeaux, 23,24 et 25 juin 2003.

  Manuel APPERT, 2003, Defining and measuring urban road congestion, Communication at the 13th international colloquium of theoretical and quantitative Geography, Lucca, Italy, September 2003.

  Publications:

  Manuel APPERT, Laurent CHAPELON, 2003, Variabilité de la performance des réseaux routiers: application à la région urbaine de Londres, in MATHIS Philippe, Graphes et réseaux: modélisation multiniveau (Traité IGAT, série Aspects fondamentaux de l’analyse spatiale). 360p.

  Manuel APPERT, 2003, Évaluation de la congestion du réseau routier urbain des agglomérations de Montpellier et Nîmes, in Voiron Christine (dir.), Dynamiques territoriales méditerranéennes - dynamiques urbaines méditerranéennes, CD-ROM (à paraître).

  Commissioned reports:

  Manuel APPERT, Laurent CHAPELON, 2002, Planification des transports régionaux en Languedoc-Roussillon et Nord-Pas-de-Calais: évaluation de la concurrence rail-route, analyse comparée des chaînes de transport à dominante routière et ferroviaire, programme de recherche INRETS — Groupement Régional Nord-Pas-de-Calais. 84 p.

  Manuel APPERT, Hervé BAPTISTE, Laurent CHAPELON, Alain L’HOSTIS, Philippe MENERAULT, Vaclav STRANSKY, 2002, Évaluation multimodale des systèmes de transport en Nord-Pas-de-Calais et Languedoc-Roussillon: enjeux pour l’aménagement des territoires régionaux, Approche par analyse de la qualité de service des transports collectifs et de l’accessibilité routière, Synthèse. 9 p.

  Laurent CHAPELON, Benoît JOUVAUD, Sébastien RAMORA, Manuel APPERT, 2003, Localisation de la gare TGV de Nîmes: évaluation spatiale et temporelle des scénarios d’aménagement, contrat de recherche Réseau Ferré de France — Délégation régionale Languedoc-Roussillon. 122p.

  Scientific vulgarization:

  Manuel APPERT, 2001, Le territoire des réseaux routiers, Poster at the 12^th International Festival of Geography of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges.

  Manuel APPERT, 2002, Royaume-Uni: la faillite du tout routier, in Alternatives économiques, n°206, septembre 2002.

TEACHING

Trainee lecturer at the Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III from 2000 to 2003 with teaching in both campuses in Montpellier and Beziers.

2000-2001: 64h of courses:

• Introduction to Geomorphology (DEUG, level 1)
• Transport Geography (DEUG, level 2)

2001-2002: 64h of courses:

• Introduction to Human Geography (DEUG, level 1)
• Transport Geography (DEUG, level 2)

2002-2003: 64h of courses:

• Introduction to Geomorphology (DEUG, level 1)
• Service Geography (DEUG, level 2)
• Cities, Regions and Globalisation (level 3)

2003-2004: 96h of courses:

• Introduction to Human Geography (DEUG, level 1)
• Service Geography (DEUG, level 2)
• Cities, Regions and Globalisation (level 3)
• transport and land use interactions (level 4 in urban planning)
• Spatial and network analysis (level 3)

SKILLS

Operating systems:

• Windows
• Mac OS X

Applications:

• Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint,
• Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator,
• Corel Draw
• NOD - MAP
• SAS
• Automate

Language competences

French: mother tongue
English: Advance
Spanish: Advance