The Grand Paris transport project

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1 The Grand Paris transport project Jean-Pierre DEGHAYE BD Director Keolis Administrator of CODATU On behalf of Prof. Jean-Claude ZIV Vice President Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris General Secretary, CODATU

2 Grand Paris Express

3 A brief history of transports in Paris At the end of 19th century : suburban rail lines, serving major stations, in cul de sac, operated by private companies under the control of the State Bus and tramway network under the control of local authorities During the first 60 years of 20 th century Paris, after New York, London and Berlin finally built a subway, after many battles over its design and network (13 lines) Tram progressively disappeared Car had been expanding constantly after 2 nd WW

4 Since the 1970s, a new master plan has delivered: A major business cluster (La Defense), 5 new towns around Paris RER (Regional Express Rail) network, line A, B, then C, D and E A new modernized light rail is now being built by and around the City of Paris and many more light rail lines are planned by the Region (over 50 miles) and also BRT lines metro: line 14 A brief history of transports in Paris (2) A transport tax has been created in 1973 levied on companies to finance fare integration Today, the Greater Paris transport system is fully integrated (bus, metro, new light rail, RER, commuter rail)

5 Introducing Le Grand Paris Paris is a city that boasts to be the home of the highest number of headquarters of Fortune Global 500 companies in Europe, putting it in the third place in the world after Tokyo and Beijing Paris is the only metropolitan area within the euro zone to have more than 12 million residents.

6 Le Grand Paris The Grand Paris project aims at the planning of the entire Paris (or Ile-de-France) Metropolitan area Urban planning, architecture, economics, transport, social and environment development, cultural and sport infrastructures are the many perspectives of the Grand Paris Grand Paris in an huge investment into the future: Over 30 billion Euros 1 million new jobs by ,000 new homes evey year 5,500 plots of land to be acquired for the transport plan

7 La Société du Grand Paris PTA of Paris Region is STIF, created in 2006 Greater Paris Transport project was defined in 2007 by national Government A agreement was reached in January 2011 between Government and the Region by which Greater Paris Express will be developed by: La Société du Grand Paris (SGP)

8 Three strategic goals To create a new public transport offer providing: easy and fast travel from suburb to suburb (70% of all trips) a genuine alternative to the car To relieve the existing congested network (RER) To connect with high speed rail network and airports 60 kph 15% shift in modal split

9 Three strategic goals (2) Transit Oriented Development (TOD) of Paris Metropolitan area Essential framework for its future economic growth Connecting development clusters to the network Launching new industrial, business and housing projects in connection with the project

10 Three strategic goals (3) The Green Agenda To reduce pollution and automobile congestion To fight suburban sprawl and urbanisation of agricultural land

11 The map of Grand Paris Express 4 main automatic subway lines: blue line, red line, green line and orange line The four lines will be connected to one another and to all the other subway, commuter rail and light rail lines and to the bus network (feeder): 75% of the new stations will be connected to the pre-existing network

12 The map of Grand Paris Express Red line will be a circular one with an extension towards CDG. It will connect suburbs of the second ring Blue line will be an extension of existing metro line 14 Green line will serve Orly airport and further away south western suburbs including a cluster of universities and high tech industries (Saclay) Orange line will connect the south eastern suburbs

13 Building and operating GPE Société du Grand Paris will conceive and build the network in conjunction with STIF (PTA), but STIF will be responsible for operating it by contracting out to public or private operators There will be RFP s for operating the various parts of the network All French and non French operators will be allowed to bid The total investment is estimated over 30 billions Station and urban development PPPs?

14 Status of the GPE project Today, officially, the accepted project is the 2011 compromise between the National Government and the Region ( Arrêt du Conseil d Etat ) Government has now confirmed that the project will be implemented but in a rational phasing Detailed costs of each part of the network are being evaluated by a special commission; operating costs and revenues are also being evaluated The phasing plan and timetable should be announced before the end of this year

15 Operating costs STIF, the PTA, is concerned about operating costs that will be far from being covered by farebox revenues The annual cost of operating the complete system should be around 2 billion It will not consider higher or special fares for the new lines: all users should have equal access STIF has to find by 2020 enough resources to operate the southern part of the red line (about 500 million per year) The transport tax currently covers 40% of STIF s budget

16 Financial challenge How can SGP and STIF finance such a project, especially given the current economic crisis. A new tax, paid by each greater Paris household has been introduced by SGP and it yields 650 million per year This amount should be sufficient to pay the annuities of a loan but will not cover operating costs Previous Government had promised 5.2 billion but new Government has yet to confirmed it

17 Which role for Keolis? Keolis, French Company operating in 13 countries 5 Billions Turnover, employers 2.2 billions Passengers Expert in Urban Transports : Trains/Metros/Trams/Bus 1,3 billions railway passengers Manless metros World leader since 1983

18 Which role for Keolis? At the request of The STIF and SGP, Keolis, already bringing its expertise for conception and operation evaluation of Grand Paris Metro Keolis will be one of the key players in competition for O&M contracts

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