Member

2020 – 2025  Ph.D. in Geography and Planning – Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne in partnership with RATP Group, “Planning and Management of multimodal interchanges in a context of sectoral and territorial reforms. A comparison between France, England and the Netherlands”

2018 Master in Urban Planning (Research) – Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

2018 Magistère in Urban Planning (Applied) – Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

2016 Bachelor in Geography and Planning – Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

2025 – 2026 Assistant Lecturer – Université de Technology de Compiègne (UTC) – Urban engineering department

2020 – 2024 Research project manager – RATP Group

2020 Research assistant, ANR “Financing Clean Air”, CNRS, UMR 8504 Géograpie-Cités

2019 Research assistant, Project “Firminfra”, LabEx Dynamites

Participation in research groups

Since 2026 Honorary Associated Researcher – University of Liverpool – Research group “Planning, Environmental Assessment and Management”

Collective research projects

International projects

2019 – 2023 ANR Financing Clean Air on Land Value capture mechanisms and their contribution to the funding of mass transit infrastructures (WP3 : Transports). Project coordinated by Alex Lord (University of Liverpool) and Natacha Aveline for the UMR Géographie-Cités

National projects

2019 – 2022 FIRMINFRA on land valuation and real estate activities of infrastructure managers in the Paris City-region. Project coordinated by Juliette Maulat and funded by the LabEx Dynamites

2025 – 2026 : Université de Technologie de Compiègne

• Urban Policies
• Planning theory and practice for urban engineers

2024 – 2025 : Université Paris 1 / Sorbonne Université

• International Workshop : Rotterdam
• English for transport, mobility and urban logistics

2023 – 2024 : Université Paris 1 / Sorbonne Université

• International Workshop : Rotterdam
• English for transport, mobility and urban logistics

2022 – 2023 : Université Paris 1

• International Workshop : Rotterdam

2021-2022 : Université Paris 1

• Careers and Projects
• Seminar “Planning and Transportation”
• Urban Studies

2020-2021 : Université Paris 1

• Urban Studies

2019-2020 : Sorbonne Université

• Quantitative research methods (surveys and questionnaires)

Co-supervision of Master theses

2024 – 2025

• “The extension of subway line 11 and its effects on youth mobility” , Master in Urban Planning (1st year), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, co-supervised with J. Maulat

2021 – 2022

• “Interconnexion between the Grand Paris Express and the historical network in Île-de-France. History, networks, governance“, Master in Urban Planning (1st year), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, co-supervised with J. Debrie
• “Re-thinking the bus station model : from bus stations to eco-bus stations“, Master in Urban Planning (2nd year), Sorbonne Université, co-supervised with M. Albertelli et X. Desjardins

2020 – 2021 

• “Public policies for bike-train intermodality in the suburban areas of the Paris City-region“, Master in Urban Planning (1st year), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, co-supervised with Juliette Maulat

Supervision of internships

2025 – 2026

• Supervision of internships in urban engineering, Université de Technologie de Compiègne

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Frétigny, J.B., Magnan, M., Maulat, J. et Pedro, M., 2025, « The quiet financialisation of urban infrastructure. The media in the normalisation of airport-led development in the Paris city-region », Cities – hal-05124397

Pedro, M., Maulat, J., Delépine, I. et Lord, A., 2024. “Carte blanche ? Négociations autour des outils de captation des plus-values foncières en France, en Angleterre et aux Pays-Bas”, Riurba, n°15 – en ligne

Fretigny, J.B., Magnan, M., Maulat, J., et Pedro, M., 2024. “Airport city” or “VIP” urbanism? Questioning the market-led land development strategies of airports. Human Geography, 17(3), 262-277 – hal-04553788

Pedro, M., 2022. Au-delà du projet: tensions et négociations dans l’aménagement des quartiers de gare métropolitains à Lyon et Rotterdam, Géotransports, n°16, p.13 – en ligne

Other articles

Pedro, M., 2020, “Towards the abandonment of active land policy? Evolutions of Land-Value Capture in the Netherlands”, Foncier en Débats – infos en ligne

Book chapters

Delepine, I., Maulat, J. et Pedro, M. [accepté, à paraître]. « Le Grand Paris aménagé par les opérateurs de transport : approche croisée des stratégies immobilières de la RATP et de la Société du Grand Paris », in Barles, S., Fleury, A. et Maulat, J., Fabriques du Grand Paris, Editions de la Sorbonne

Maulat, J. et Pedro, M., 2025. Shifting economic models of transportation places. in Fretigny, J.B., Geographical Places in Transportation, ISTE; Wiley, Encyclopédie SCIENCES, pp.51-74. hal-05128996

Maulat, J. et Pedro, M., 2024. L’évolution des modèles économiques des lieux de transports, in Fretigny, J.B., Les transports et leurs lieux, ISTE Editions, Encyclopédie SCIENCES, pp.81-106. hal-04501886

Pedro, M. et Kaminagai, Y., 2024. « Urban hubs as levers to improve the attractiveness of public transport in a post-COVID context: Insights from the Paris city region », in Shibayama, T. et Emberger, G., International Perspectives on Public Transport Responses to COVID-19, Elsevier, WTCRS book series, p.135-148

Reviews

Pedro, M., 2024. Les espaces publics à l’épreuve des mobilités, Antoine Fleury, Jean-Baptiste Frétigny, Dimitra Kanellopoulou, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Collection “Espace et territoires”, 2022, 172 p. Flux, 135-136, 220-221. https://doi.org/10.3917/flux1.135.0220

Pedro, M., 2024. « Local effects of sectoral reforms: understanding the evolutions of public transport governance through the planning and management of multimodal interchanges », IGU Commission Geography of Governance Annual Conference, Maynooth University, Irlande, 23-24 août 2024

Pedro, M., 2023. “Construire une action collective dans un contexte de recomposition du jeu d’acteurs des transports : les pôles d’échanges multimodaux en Île-de-France et dans le Grand Manchester », 5emes Rencontres Francophones Transport Mobilité (RFTM), juin 2023, Dijon

Pedro, M., 2022, « From stations to urban hubs: The challenges of multimodal governance and their effects on the (re)organisation of transit hubs in the Greater Manchester », Congrès de l’IGU / UGI – Session « The place of railway stations in urban transitions: Energy, nature, communities, solidarity and circularity », 20 juillet 2022, Paris

Pedro, M., 2021, « Au-delà du projet : tensions et négociations dans l’aménagement des quartiers de gare. Lyon Part-Dieu et Rotterdam Central District », Rencontres Francophones Transport Mobilité (RFTM), 2 – 4 juin 2021, Marne-la-Vallée

Frétigny, J.B., Magnan, M., Maulat, J. et Pedro, M., 2019, “The changing territoriality of Airport Managers: the Diversification of Aéroports de Paris or how a key aviation player participates in land planning”, Journée d’étude 1919-2019: 100 ans d’aviation civile et commerciale en France, Le Bourget, october 4th-5th

Since 2020 Elected representative of the Ph.D. students

Since 2020 Member of the “Financing Clean Air” project Early Career Network committee