This talk is concerned with a singular limit for the
bistable traveling wave problem in a very large class of two-species,
fully nonlinear, strongly coupled parabolic systems with competitive
reaction terms. Particular cases are the standard Lotka--Volterra
system, the Potts--Petrovskii cross-taxis system and the
Shigesada--Kawasaki--Teramoto cross-diffusion system. Logistic growth
terms can also be replaced by more general monostable terms, with or
without weak Allee effect. Assuming existence of monotonic traveling
waves and enough compactness, we derive and characterize the limiting
free boundary problem and especially the sign of the wave speed,
which serves as a criterion to compare dispersal--growth strategies.
This is a joint work with Danielle Hilhorst (CNRS, Université
Paris-Saclay).