Florence PAULHIAC SCHERRER

Biographical note
The Professor Florence Paulhiac Scherrer heads the Research Chair In.SITU ‘’Innovations and Integrated Transport – Planning Strategies’’, attached to the School of Management (ESG  UQAM). The ambition of the Chair In.SITU is to contribute to knowledge and applied solutions in order to improve the quality of our urban development and mobility services from a perspective of sustainability. F. Paulhiac Scherrer leads researches on policies in the field of urban planning, management of transport and urban mobility, from the perspective of consistency in public action. The content analysis of collective action is studied on the basis of processes related to building, decision-making and implementation of action. Professor F. Paulhiac Scherrer currently leads a SHRC research ‘’Savoir’’ (2015 – 2020) on the TOD projects in Canada entitled ‘’TOD : Assessment of a coordination transport – planning instrument’’.

Presentation:  TOD in Canada : planning, contend and implementation
This conference intends to examine a particular area of public policy, namely the planning and implementation of projects combining the field of transport and the one of spatial planning : Transit Oriented Development (TOD) types of neighbourhoods. Such projects increasingly programmed in Canadian cities, generally offer better integration of development strategies with respect to individual transport infrastructures, regional planning and urban development at the local level. The TOD projects generally require adaptation to local issues (territorialization effects) and, they show a great diversity within the same metropolitan area (differentiation effect). This conference is an opportunity to analyze the substantial dimensions of the TOD type’s projects. In addition, the conference aims at dealing with terms and instruments of production and implementation of these highly complex projects.