Share ideas and thoughts about changes in the societal and environmental context liable to influence the design, distribution and use of automobiles.

Pinpoint trends or issues and raise awareness of them.

Make the world of technology aware as early as possible of new constraints brought about by societal and environmental changes.

Our thinking is focused on the interactions between the automobile as an object and its environment: changes in mobility brought about by the use of an automobile, as a function of changes in societies, life styles, complementary or rival solutions and the requirements for sustainable development.

Our fields of investigation include complementarity with public transportation, different methods of ownership or use and the improvement of traffic fluidity and safety

Our activities can be carried out jointly with other Technical Committees (TC1/4 ).

Work groups made up of about a dozen experts, a good portion of them from outside the automobile industry, whose goal is to explore and work together on new topics..

Workshops that give an expert the opportunity to present an issue to spark an in-depth debate on the topic or simply make a selected audience aware of it..

Conferences and seminars, geared to a wider audience, to assess the state of progress in a particular area and give an overall perspective on a given theme.

Anyone in the automobile industry: Engineers, technicians and managers from automobile and equipment manufacturers, service providers, laboratories, schools and universities, research centres, etc.. Participants are drawn from many different functional areas within the automobile industry: design, manufacturing, purchasing, after-sales and services..
Individuals outside the industry who are concerned by the interactions between automobiles and society