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"Travail social et territoire : concept, méthode, outils " (EHESP, may 2015), a new book by Alexandre Moine and Nathalie Sorita, presents tools for analyzing and diagnosing social work, from a framework based on systems theory.

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"Déplacements urbains : sortir de l'orthodoxie" (PPUR, march 2015), a new book by Thomas Buhler, presents a new theoretical framework to better understand daily-life mobility practices and the limitation of modal change policies.

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The Joint Transport Research Center (JTRC) Committee of the International Transport Forum (IFT -  OECD) invited TheMA laboratory to present its research on March 30th 2015 at the OECD headquarters in Paris. Two projects developed in TheMA and proposing models and tools for decision-making in land use planning were presented:

• GRAPHAB 2 , presented by Céline Clauzel, which aims to access the impact of transport infrastructures on ecological networks
  
  
• VILMODes (using the MobiSim platform) project, presented by Jean-Philippe Antoni, which aims to design, simulate, compare and evaluate different scenarios of urban planning and transport policies.