Paris-Orly airport launches "Paris-Orly By Cycle 2030", to develop bicycle use for employees and local residents.
Ground access to Paris-Orly airport (passenger customers and employees) currently accounts for 41% of ground CO2 emissions.
To achieve the airport industry's unprecedented goal of zero net emissions on the ground by 2030 at Paris-Orly, the development of soft mobility is essential.
The other major lever for decarbonizing access is line 14, which will enter service in summer 2024, bringing Paris-Orly airport to within 25 minutes of the center of Paris.
Paris-Orly airport lies at the heart of a particularly dense regional ecosystem, with two départements, nine municipalities and two conurbation communities.
In addition, 4,500 of the airport's employees (around 20%) live within a radius of less than 10 kilometres of the airport, offering great potential for developing the use of bicycles.
The cycling plan, aimed at hub employees and residents of neighbouring towns, was drawn up in consultation with the local authorities (1) and provides for :
- From 2024 to 2030, the intra-airport cycle network will be densified and the airport will be better connected to the surrounding areas: almost 6 kilometres of new continuous safe cycle paths (compared with 1 km today). This new network will
- access to the airport's main business hubs: Paris-Orly 1234, the Orlytech real estate cluster, the Coeur d'Orly business district, etc;
- direct connections with the towns of Orly, Thiais, Wissous, Morangis, Paray-Vieille-Poste and Rungis;
- access for local residents to the future multimodal hub at the airport, with direct access to lines 14 and 18, and to the bus station, to encourage intermodality. - Secure cycle parking and showers:
- 155 cycle racks and 70 Véligo lockers in the immediate vicinity of the station;
- More than 500 cycle racks at the foot of the airport's main buildings, as well as four secure, access-controlled cycle parks for employees.
In addition, from mid-2024, some fifty self-service electric bicycles will also be available to airport employees.
"If we want to achieve our objective of zero net emissions on the ground by 2030, Paris-Orly must become a benchmark airport in terms of integrating soft mobility, and in particular cycling. This is why the ADP Group is investing in the development of cycle paths and the equipment needed to make cycling safe and comfortable. If tomorrow 20% of employees come to the airport by bike - on a regular or more occasional basis - we will have succeeded in our aim", said Justine Coutard, Managing Director of Paris-Orly Airport.
KEY FIGURES:
- 6 kilometres of new cycle paths
- 6 towns directly connected
- 655 parking spaces
(1) Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre area, Essonne and Val de Marne departmental councils
