Detailed description (English): Starting from the Angers metropolitan area, this visit is the opportunity to discover the Regional Intermodality Plan programmed by the Regional Council, which holds a leading role in the implementation of intermodality and the development of complementarity between transport modes on its territory.
Adopted in 2007 for a period of 20 years and with a 10 billion € budget, the Regional Infrastructure and Transport Plan allows the Pays de la Loire Region to become one of the most advanced French (and European) regions in the field of transport and land use planning.
The 2 days technical tour places in the spotlight recent and future developments of the regional intermodal passenger transport network which attendance is constantly growing: new routes, timetable synchronization, "user-friendly" approach, pricing policy, Châteaubriant, Angers, of Sable-sur-Sarthe and Ancenis new intermodal train stations, Nantes future railway station, the TGV-TER "tangent" to facilitate inter-regional mobility, park and ride, Bicycle Mobility Plan, bike-sharing scheme, car sharing, carpooling, new pedestrian layouts. Adjustments developed with the permanent concern of management correlated between mobility, urban planning and economic development.
Target group(s): The Club is open to representatives of European local / regional authorities and to professionals of the passenger transport sector.
Objectives: The objective of the Club is to host public and private passenger transport sector stakeholders or actors in exemplary intermodal communities and territories and to promote exchanges between the participants.
Expected Outcomes: Participants are reporting the different practices of sustainable mobility / intermodality to their teams once back to their communities / countries and look for an implementation adapted to the peculiarities of their own mobility systems.
Sharing experience / knowledge.
Partner: SNCF MOBILITES is partner for the organization of this technical tour. SNCF MOBILITES is the French public transport operator.