Regional master plan for carpooling areas

As part of its proactive policy in favor of shared and low-carbon mobility, the Occitanie Region wanted to acquire a strategic planning tool to structure its network of carpooling areas.

Explain conducted a regional mission, mobilizing both data analysis, territorial surveys and flow modeling :

1. Regional state of affairs
   • Inventory and geolocation of more than 1,000 existing carpooling areas (all project owners combined).
   • Analysis of the attendance, equipment, connectivity and accessibility of each area.
2. Potential demand analysis
   • Exploitation of INSEE data and home-work trips.
   • Modeling of intercommunal flows and identification of structuring axes of carpooling.
3. Prioritization and strategy
   • Elaboration of a regional reference system of areas, classifying the sites into three levels: structuring, relay and local.
   • Definition of planning and governance principles : location, sizing, sharing with other functions (P+R, TAD stops, hubs).
4. Action plan and programming
   • Interactive regional mapping.
   • Definition of an investment plan and a 10-year deployment schedule.

This integrated approach made it possible to build a operational management tool at the service of territories and institutional partners, while ensuring coherence with mobility policies (SRADDET, PDMR, PCAET).

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The objective of the mission was to structure and harmonize the carpooling offer at the regional level, in order to make it a major driver of the energy transition.
Explain aimed to:

• Identify priority areas for development;
• Prioritize needs according to the intensity of home-work flows;
• Define a homogeneous technical and financial framework for local actors;
• Encourage the coherence and readability of the regional carpooling network.

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The study allowed the Occitanie Region to acquire a unique planning tool at the regional level, facilitating coordination between communities, operators and road managers.The results offer a clear and hierarchical vision of the offer And a prioritization of investments according to territorial needs. Explain also produced a dynamic and interoperable mapping, which can be directly integrated into regional mobility observation tools.

Explain provided its expertise in defining the regional master plan for carpooling areas by carrying out 2 parallel and closely linked processes: a technical process and a decision support process to guide elected officials and technicians.

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