By virtue of the climate law passed a year ago, transport sites and applications are now required to enter the user about the pollution generated by their trips, as well as to offer other solutions.
Le Monde with AFP
Google Maps, Apple Plans, Waze, Mappy, Citymapper, Moovit, Bonjour Ratp … The guide sites and applications now have the obligation to better inform users about the impact of their journeys on the environment and their health, As well as to offer less polluting journeys and solutions other than the car, explained the government, Monday August 8 .
These arrangements, voted in August 2021 window In article 122 of the climate and resilience law , were specified in a decree published in the Official Journal on August 5 and completed by a decree of the Minister for Transport, Clément Beaune. Here is what changes concretely.
an estimate of the pollution generated by the route
As soon as a user seeks to plan a journey, the result must display an estimate of the pollution caused, with the quantities of greenhouse gases and air pollutants (nitrogen oxides, PM10 particles) issued by the different modes of transport suggested. Multimodal applications and sites will have to highlight “itinerary proposals whose impact is the lowest in terms of greenhouse gas emissions”, specifies the decree.
Proposals for spare solutions
If the journey includes a car passage on a portion where the maximum authorized speed is greater than or equal to 110 kilometers per hour (km/h), these applications will have to offer solutions allowing a drop in speed of 20 km/h, and therefore fewer programs. While they sometimes refer motorists to secondary tracks, to the chagrin of residents, these services will now have to “endeavor to propose” load shedding routes “avoiding the massive use of secondary tracks not provided for intensive traffic” . Unless these detours allow you to save more than 10 % of the remaining journey time, or that there is work or an accident on the main route.
awareness messages
Furthermore, from December 2022, all sites and applications must regularly disseminate awareness messages when a user plans a car trip. These messages of the type “For short journeys, favor walking or cycling” or “go from 130 to 110 km/h on a highway reduces your consumption by 20 %” will be accompanied by a signature ” #sedéplacemoinspolluer”, already compulsory in Advertising for cars.
Additional information
Applications must also inform users of any traffic restrictions, such as low -emission zones (ZFE), which must multiply in the coming years. Multimodal applications will also have to display, by the end of 2022, the “data relating to the cycle network, carpooling areas and parking” gathered in the database of the Transports.gouv.fr site, and, Here at the end of 2023, all public transport offers and shared vehicles (bikes, scooters).