A “single ticket» allows you to travel by public transport anywhere in France. Song_about_summer / stock.adobe.com
The Minister Delegate for Transport is considering “an experiment from the end of 2023 in a certain number of voluntary territories”.
The Minister Delegate for Transport Clément Beaune wants to develop within two years a “single ticket» allowing you to travel by public transport anywhere in France, based on the results of an innovation competition organized on Tuesday and Wednesday in Paris. “It is through innovative and concrete solutions that we can revolutionize the daily lives of public transport users in France. The single ticket is a measure that can be deployed throughout the country and will facilitate all travel“, he said, quoted in a statement on Wednesday.
“When I came up with this idea, I was told that it would take at least ten years to do this. But I am convinced that in the space of two years, we can develop the single ticket everywhere in France“, he added in an interview with 20 Minutes. A hackathon, a competition for computer scientists’ ideas, was launched on Tuesday at the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, in Paris, as part of the forum of the Innovation Agency for Transport. In the process, Beaune is considering “an experiment from the end of 2023 in a certain number of voluntary territories“. A working group will be launched with the authorities organizing mobility (regions and agglomerations) “in order to define the procedures for implementing a single national ticket“, According to the press release.
“We are not starting from nothing”
The ticket allowing tomorrow to pass from one region to another and/or from one network to another “can be either an app, which is obviously the easiest, or dematerialized titles recognized and read by all“said the Minister. “We don’t start from nothing“, he acknowledged, citing the examples of Navigo in Ile-de-France and Korrigo in Brittany. “It will also be necessary to take into account people who do not know digital technology, who are older or less accustomed to this type of solution, and whom it will also be necessary to support“, he said, noting that the single ticket at 49 euros per month for local transport implemented in Germany will have a paper version.
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Regarding a possible single tariff, “this transport decentralization policy must be respected“, said Beaune, pricing being the responsibility of local authorities. “I distinguish between the support and the price, even if I think that the support can lead to simplifications of prices and encourage the organizing authorities to propose common prices“, he added.
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