A working group will be launched with the authorities organizing mobility.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
The objective is to allow users to move everywhere in France. The Minister for Transport, Clément Beaune, announced Wednesday February 8th wanting to develop in the two years a “unique ticket”, based on the results of an innovation competition organized Tuesday and Wednesday in Paris.
“When I expressed this idea, I was told that it took at least ten years to do that. But I am convinced that in the space of two years, we can develop the unique ticket everywhere In France “, he said in an interview at 20 minutes .
“It is through innovative and concrete solutions that we can revolutionize the daily life of public transport users in France. The single ticket is a measure which can be deployed throughout the territory and which will facilitate all trips” , explained the minister, quoted in a press release Wednesday. 2>
Navigo and Korrigo in examples
A hackathon, competition for Ideas of computer scientists, was launched Tuesday at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, in Paris, as part of the Innovation Agency for Transport Forum. In the process, Mr. Beaune plans “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 methods of implementing a single national transport title”, according to the press release.
The transport title allowing tomorrow to switch 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 anything,” he said, citing the examples of the Navigo in Ile-de-France and Korrigo in Brittany.
“We will also have to take into account people who do not know digital technology, who are older or less used to this type of solutions, and which will also have to be supported,” he said, noting that The single ticket at 49 euros per month for local transport set up in Germany will have a paper version.
Regarding a possible single price, “we must respect this policy of decentralization of transport,” said Beaune, pricing being the responsibility of local authorities. “I distinguish support and price, even if I think that the support can cause prices simplifications and encourage the organizing authorities to offer common prices,” he added.