Abstract
In a context of globalization of flows and productive systems, infrastructure and logistics activities play a major role in the economy and confront territories with new challenges. For the last twenty years, the development of logistics activities has been the joint response of the tension in flow and the manifestation of the growing outsourcing of logistics by industrial and commercial companies. Thus, a new economic sector is built from the 1990s which can be considered as a lever of the economic competitiveness and attractiveness of territories (Masson and Petiot, 2012). This issue is highlighted by the French State in the meetings of the National Conference on Logistics which resulted, in 2017, in the definition of a national strategy for logistics «France Logistique 2025» based on a framework document that puts regions at the heart of the strategy (National Logistics Conference, 2017). In addition, the spatial dynamics of logistics sites raise major challenges in terms of sustainable development. Increasingly associated with intensive land resource practices, logistics platforms are highly space-consuming. They concentrate large flows of goods, which are highly demanding on the transport system, especially on the road. The question of logistical planning covers covers the delicate issues of land control in urban areas but also modal shifting. In a context of globalization of flows and productive systems, infrastructure and logistics activities play a major role in the economy and confront territories with new challenges. For the last twenty years, the development of logistics activities has been the joint response of the tension in flow and the manifestation of the growing outsourcing of logistics by industrial and commercial companies. Thus, a new economic sector is built from the 1990s which can be considered as a lever of the economic competitiveness and attractiveness of territories (Masson and Petiot, 2012). This issue is highlighted by the French State in the meetings of the National Conference on Logistics which resulted, in 2017, in the definition of a national strategy for logistics «France Logistique 2025» based on a framework document that puts regions at the heart of the strategy (National Logistics Conference, 2017). In addition, the spatial dynamics of logistics sites raise major challenges in terms of sustainable development. Increasingly associated with intensive land resource practices, logistics platforms are highly space-consuming. They concentrate large flows of goods, which are highly demanding on the transport system, especially on the road. The question of logistical planning covers covers the delicate issues of land control in urban areas but also modal shifting. The thesis focuses the role of public action in the processes of coordination, development and planning of the logistics sector. The development of an efficient public action fulfils the socio-spatial and economic challenges of tomorrow's logistics. The main methodological contribution concerns the link between textometry and the logic of similarity of organised proximity. Indeed, values and systems of shared ideas can be apprehended by textometry, which provides a (quantitative) measure of the proximity between different discourses.