FRANCE One of the principal development projects in the Paris region is that RATP’s entire fleet of 4,500 buses will be electric or renewable gas and non-fossil fuelled by 2025. Another is the first section of the Grand Paris Express comprising 127 miles of fully-automated metro with 68 new stations, due to open by 2019. Also there’s successfully growing Autolib’ the world’s largest car sharing service for electric vehicles – there were 3,000 cars served by 5,000 charging points by 2014 – and further developing BlaBlaCar, a leading ride-sharing reservation service. The Mayor of Paris also plans to double the total lengthy of bike paths from 435 miles to 870 miles. 10,000 bike parking spaces are planned.
Serving 12m residents as well as 47m tourists each year, the regions public transport felicitates 8.5m trips daily, a 21% increase in the last decade.
