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Urban growth and climate change are exacerbating the enormous challenges to which public transportation must provide solutions.
Urban congestion and the increase in travel requirements make it necessary to improve efficiency and ease of mobility.
Accessible transportation for everyone provides an important lever for social cohesion and is a factor conducive to development.
A substantial movement from private cars to public transportation contributes to reducing GHGs and improving air quality.
Finally, public transportation contributes to the development of more ideal densities in an urban environment.
From transportation operator to global mobility manager
Veolia Transportation's services are adapting to take these problems into account; Veolia Transportation is changing from a passenger transportation operator to a global mobility manager. By broadening its core business to meet new objectives, Veolia Transportation proposes new services contributing to finding a solution to the increasing economic, social and environmental challenges related to urban mobility and the need for alternatives to road for the transportation of passengers and goods.
Reorganizing responsibilities and contract models
This new role as global mobility manager implies a redefinition of activity, scope and objectives, in cooperation with organising authorities and other transportation operators.
Veolia Transportation has the technical expertise and detailed knowl-edge of passenger needs and an investment capability such that it can propose innovative contractual solutions on the model of public-private partnerships.
These enable optimization of public investments to meet long-term needs, fixing of quality objectives in terms of usage or environmental performance to be achieved by the operator, and Veolia Transportation accepting a percentage of investments to be made for the development of new infrastructures.
Embedding environmental efficiency
Veolia Transportation's proposals include eco-efficient calculations that are useful to town councils to improve their understanding of their environmental footprint and to define the best urban development options for transportation,
to encourage the development of integrated transit systems with low CO2 emissions.
Developing inter-modal solutions
Improving networks and transportation hubs and organising the best fit between transportation modes are essential elements to provide fluid and efficient journeys for passengers.
Veolia Transportation participates in the development of intermodal transportation by offering complementary travel modes that provide
the missing link between private cars and traditional public transportation (car sharing, collective taxis, shuttle buses, self-service bicycles).
Developing new transportation offers
The objective of global transportation management is to transfer the maximum number of passengers to public transportation; the use of public transportation should become as easy, flexible and efficient as the use of a private car.
2,5 billion trips done with Veolia Transportation
Customizing public transportation
The business of Veolia Transportation includes a new technological dimension to control mobility within a region and to allow individuals, continuous personal access to information.
The supply of real time displays, individual information through SMS and routing computers, makes it easy for each passenger to create and optimize their route.
Innovations may also be organizational; to meet the needs of everyone and to increase the use of public transportation networks, detailed analysis has been carried out on demand, leading to the creation of new timetables and improved frequencies.
1,75 billion kilometres travelled with Veolia Transportation
Developing individual shared ride offers
Shared ride meets particular needs; it is not always possible to set up a regular transportation line in less dense areas.
Veolia Transportation has developed transportation on demand (TOD) in remote urban and rural regions, or to facilitate travel for disabled persons. Shuttle service for airports, buses, shared taxis, are all possible solutions for making better connections and showing regions at their best.
Proposing alternatives to road freight transportation
Railway and river freight transportation modes are now underused, although with their environmental efficiency,
they should be able to offer a viable alternative to road freight.
Veolia Transportation is developing rail and sea freight transportation through the activity of Veolia Cargo.
Degree of commitment of Veolia Environnement
