ROUVIER-PONS Armand

Doctorant

Laboratoire Image, Ville, Environnement
Faculté de Géographie et d'Aménagement
3 rue de l'Argonne - 67000 STRASBOURG

Bureau 417

  armand.pons[at]live-cnrs.unistra.fr

Research projects

Mobilities | Urban Studies | Social Geography | Data Visualization | Public Participation | Territorial Politics

Publications and dissemination

Peer-reviewed papers

  • Pons A., Bréjat S., Finance O. and Conesa A. (under review). The standardization trap: (mis)recognizing disabilities across public and transit spaces. Revised and resubmitted to the Journal of Transport Geography.
  • Pons A. (under review). How neighborhood effects shape household energy burdens: a spatial analysis around Lyon. Submitted to Cybergéo: European Journal of Geography.
  • Conesa A., Dere I., Nihoul A., ..., Pons A. (R1: major revision). Routes to justice: participative processes for bridging conceived and perceived accessibility in public transportation. Submitted to Transportation.
  • Pons A., Finance O., and Conesa A. (2024). The fuel of discontent? Transport poverty risks and equity concerns in French urban peripheries. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 51(7).

Working/Conference papers

  • Conesa A., Pons A., and Nihoul A. (2025). A mixed-methods study on inequalities in accessibility: Evidence from Strasbourg and Brussels. Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility. Springer Lecture Notes in Mobility.
  • Pons A. (2024). Participative approaches for accessibility planning: a review and applications. AESOP Annual Congress, Paris.
  • Pons et al. (2024). Mind the gap! How does unequal access to the city affect persons with reduced mobility? Poster and interactive atlas presented at the French quantitative geography meetings, Besançon.  Jury prize

Other presentations

  • Pons A. (2025). Le « droit à la mobilité » au défi de la ruralité. 7èmes Journées européennes de la mobilité, Strasbourg.
  • Pons A. (2023). Une « périurbanisation de la pauvreté » ? Vulnérabilités énergétiques et mobilités quotidiennes autour de Lyon (1999-2019). 24èmes Rencontres internationales en urbanisme de l’APERAU, Université de Lausanne.
  • Conesa A., Pons A. et al. (2022). Mobilizing accessibility: combining modelling and participative approaches to assess public transport inclusiveness. NECTAR Conference, University of Toronto.
  • Pons A. (2022). Visualiser l’accessibilité : du potentiel aux vulnérabilités. 4èmes Rencontres Francophones Transports et Mobilités, Université du Luxembourg.

Additional experience

  • Teaching assistant (172 hours, mostly undergraduate courses): Economic Geography (42h) | Global Demography (26h) | Contemporary Geopolitics (40h) | Sociological Analysis (44h) | Transport Policy and Planning (20h).
  • Consultancy:
    • Benchmarked French commercial community land trusts (Urbanova).
    • Designed infographic panels for an urban mobility exhibition (Greater Strasbourg Authority).
    • Coordinating a multi-stakeholder observatory promoting dialogue on everyday mobility practices (under development with Chôros and Transdev). 

Education and training

2021-2025: Université de Strasbourg, PhD in Geography and Planning.

  • Doctoral Summer School on Climate Change and Cities, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
  • Visited the Center for Urban Science and Policy, TU Delft (2023).

2017-2021: ENS de Lyon, major in Geography.

  • Research Intern at the University of Edinburgh, VisHub Lab (2019).
  • Chinese Language Program, East China Normal University (Shanghai).

2015-2017: Khâgne B/L, Lycée Lakanal (Grand Paris).