[copie] Transpolidae

Transpolis is a transport and infrastructure experimentation platform, also a vehicle testing center, public-private “co-ownership”, carrying scientific interest by the Gustave Eiffel University and industrial interest by the company Transpolis SAS of which Gustave Eiffel University is the main shareholder. The Transpolis site is relatively atypical: both anthropized but with great stability of infrastructure development. Rich in biodiversity (avifauna, herpetofauna and chiropterans), Transpolis is neither a natural reserve preserved from anthropogenic action, nor an infrastructure whose evolution could disrupt the ecosystem in which it is located. As such, the site constitutes a laboratory whose development conditions are controlled over a long period of several decades. It is part of a particular ecosystem in the Ain plain, close to a Natura 2000 area, the Ain River, the A42, a railway, a future quarry, and agricultural and forestry areas which open up the possibility of multi-infrastructure studies linked to human activities. It faces challenges of resilience in its environment given climate change. The site is representative of road, railway, but also urban context.
The idea is to open up the possibilities of extending the infrastructure and transport platform to research in ecology, at the interface between laboratory studies and open field studies, to help, for example, in the design of new methods for monitoring biodiversity, to improve knowledge of environmental impacts, to develop practices for today's and tomorrow's transport.