Interview
Competitive tendering
Why and how does competitive tendering drive improvements in mobility?
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Laurent Probst
Managing Director of Île-de-France Mobilités
Laurent Probst, Managing Director of Île-de-France Mobilités, talks about the importance of competition in the transport sector.
This competitive bidding is regulated. We have contracts and we finance public operators. We provide them with guarantees against possible crises, as we saw with Covid. These contracts also provide a social framework: we have a charter of social commitments which guarantees that employees who are transferred will retain their social benefits, working conditions and salary.
The results of competitive tendering are there: on all the networks we have put out to tender, we have seen an improvement in service quality. Taking the example of regularity on former bus lines, we had a regularity of 86%, which we managed to increase by 2% on all networks.
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Interview
Design
How does architecture interact with mobility in our cities?
Madeleine Masse, Founder and President of Atelier Soil
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Interview
Design
How can we reinvent mobility?
Arnaud Passalacqua, Professor at the Paris School of Urban Planning
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Interview
Design
How can individuals improve their urban environment?
Zeina Nazer, Co-founder of Cities Forum and vice president of ITS UK Road User Charging Forum
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Interview
Decarbonization
How will rural areas adapt to the shift towards carbon-neutral mobility?
Caulfield Brian, Professor in transportation and Head of Department at Trinity College Dublin, Expert to the National Transport Authorithy (Ireland)
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Insights
Data
Which technology or practice is driving the other?
Nathalie Allegret, Director of National Activities and Development, Equans Cities and Communities Division (multi-technical services)
