2023-10-20 04:18:45
It’s 7:30 a.m., you finish your coffee, you look at your phone, you open a single app, which will draw on your screen your route this morning, a bit of cycling to the metro, but be careful, the application not only knows all the possible journeys, the quickest, but also the crowds on each line, ah too many people this morning on Line 8 she tells you, take the 14 instead.
Is the idea to have smoother journeys?
Yes through applications and technologies in transport. So you arrive on the platform of line 14, in Paris, the next metro arrives in 2 minutes but you already see colors on the screen doors, on the platform, green, yellow red, green the train that will arrive is relatively empty , yellow, it’s a little full, red it’s almost saturated, so you go, normally, if you don’t want to have your cheek pressed once morest the glass wall of the subway and breathe in your neighbor’s deodorant, towards the green doors. Example of traffic flow.
And do these technologies already exist?
In Montreal for example, not yet in France, but the RATP is considering this type of artificial intelligence system using, for example, small boxes on the platform, counting cells which record the people getting on and off
Is this only for the train and the metro?
No on buses too, at your usual stop, you can consult your application and see for example that your arriving bus is 80% full, I’m not in too much of a hurry this morning, I decide to wait for the next one, it already exists in the United States and several communities in France are interested.
And on payment, there too, are there any new features?
You may know what we call open payment, a terrible anglicism, it means no more tickets, our credit card acts as a ticket, it exists in Toulouse, Lyon, Chartres, or Rennes, it will soon exist in Nice, Marseille or St Etienne, we take the metro or the bus, we validate, we beep at the turnstile with our credit card but there is still another step to wait: post payment…
Post payment, what does this terrible anglicism mean?
This means that you no longer bother knowing if you take this or that subscription, if you are going to make it profitable, you travel, you take the bus, the train, the metro and you pay at the end of the month, and you will pay the best price, the algorithm will calculate the best price for you a posteriori.
And we also expect something new at the national level?
The single national title – a project launched by the Ministry of Transport and its Minister Clément Beaune, is currently being tested. The idea? a single card, a single subscription, for all transport throughout France, it exists in the Netherlands, it should arrive in France within 2 years according to the Ministry of Transport.
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