The number and intensity of freight flows have increased over the last decades, in a context of fast integration of the world economy and deep transformation of production and distribution systems. In France, to cope with this new complexity, many logistics activities have been created across the country and have since concentrated in largest urban areas. Within them, new locations become increasingly suburban, in order to take advantage of the availability of large parcels and where land prices are cheaper. But the suburbanization dynamic doesn't follow a stable and predictable path. What interpretation is to be given to this heterogeneity: is it the same phenomenon just with a time lag of one or several decades or does it involve differen...