Transport Expertise thanks Codatu, its first sponsor

Matthieu Desiderio and all Transport Expertise teams would like to thank Codatu Association for its commitment in our Association’s activities. CODATU (Cooperation for urban mobility in the developing world) was born from the world conference on the urban transport, organized in Dakar in 1980. It’s an association with international vocation whose objective is to promote [...]

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Announcement: Transport Expertise is iPhone friendly

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Transport Expertise Association is born!

Madam, Sir, Dear Visitors, On behalf of all Transport Expertise Board members, I am pleased to announce that we created Transport Expertise Association (Non-Profit Organization under French regulation). As defined in the articles of association adopted during the General Assembly on Dec. 19, 2008, the Association will study and promote at the international level, best [...]

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Privatisation and Regulation of Urban Transit Systems

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published on October 28, 2008 a document entitled “ITF Round Tables – No. 141 : Privatisation and Regulation of Urban Transit Systems.” I thought it might be of interest to those who are interested in “privatizing” their public transportation network. Also, Transport Expertise team would be glad to receive [...]

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In brief: Keolis is prequalified for Melbourne transit

Earlier this month, transit operator Keolis, a SNCF subsidiary, got prequalified for two call for tenders in Melbourne area. Victoria State Government announced on September 9, 2008 that KDR, a consortium composed of the French operator Keolis and the Australian Downer EDI Rail was prequalified. The first project consists in the operation of the commuter rail [...]

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One year, 26 million trips, 3,000 losses: Velib' in Paris!

A short brief about the free-access bikes made available by Paris City, in collaboration with JCDecaux advertising company. Velib’ will celebrate next week its first anniversary and results seem to be far beyond expectations. Every day, an average 110-120,000 bikes are rented, to ride an average 18 minutes, and Velib’ just past the 26 millionth [...]

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Future HSR line to Brittany: local governments participate in the funding

There is a way to finance infrastructure when the National Government does not have enough money… simply rely on the Local and Regional Governments! A future high-speed rail line extension is planned from Paris toward the west side of France, also known as Brittany, Bretagne in French. As of today, on a regular map of [...]

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Near Field Communication development in France

Near Field Communication or NFC is a technology that has a great potential when associated with cellphones… In Asia, many transit systems adopted this technology and implemented it to ease the access to services related to transit trips, and mostly to intermodal transit trips. The last European Congress on Mobility, held early June in Paris, [...]

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Metro, bus, tramway, commuter rail and now… Voguéo!

Paris launch a waterways transit service Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë and Jean-Paul Huchon, President of Paris-Ile de France regional Government innaugurated the new waterways transit service Voguéo on Saturday, June 28, 2008. Operated by RATP, this new service will link Maisons-Alfort in the Val-de-Marne Département to Austerlitz train station inside Paris city (for more details, [...]

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Automatic buses in France: ended story?

Despite the good results of experimentations nothing happened since 2004… In 2004, a first attempt of automatic minibus implementation was tested in Antibes (South of France). This was part of a research project called Cybermove (see website in the References below), which has analysed in details 11 sites in Europe. The purpose of Antibes demonstration [...]

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