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High Speed Regional Services: a new market?

by Jean-Pierre ORSI, director Europe SYSTRA

with Henri SAISSET, Senior Consultant, SYSTRA

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Contents

• What are High Speed Regional Services ?

• Application to Provence – Alpes – Côte d’Azur future high speed line

• Conclusion

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What are High Speed Regional Services ?

• Objectives– Improve utilisation of high speed infrastructures

– Offer new high level services between regional cities

• Context– TGV are dedicated to long distance trips (more than 300 km)

– Regional authorities organise suburban services (less than 50 km)

A niche for new high speed services for intermediate distance trips– Same characteristics as regional transport (timetable, fare table, services…)

– Use of high speed line to link cities

– Part of a multi-modal network

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Technical characteristics of rolling stock

• “Light” weight: < 17 t axle-load

• High speed: 300-320 km/h

• Power Supply: 1,5 kV-DC, 25kV-AC et 3 kV-DC

• Signalling: aptitude to run on high speed lines

• Small capacity: 200/250 seats

Between TER and TGV

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A place between see and mountain

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Four millions inhabitants near the line

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Within 2020 railway traffics will double

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Millions of railway trips (yearly)

2002 trafficPopulation and mobility growth : + 17%Road congestion effects : + 32 %Transfer from road with new regional services : + 44%Traffic Induction from new regional services : + 27%Total traffic total in 2020 : 37.7 millions

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Services description : « Scenario 1 route »

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Services description : « Scenario 2 routes »

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Main Results on Regional Services

• 1,4 millions new trips (yearly) (to compare with 2 to 3 millions new high speed long distance trips)

• 7,6 millions boarding on these new services (about 21 000 trips a day)

Montants en référence

Montantsjour

Charge moyenne

Marseille -Toulon - Nice - Vintimille 10 900 210Marseille - Est Var - Cannes - Nice 3 900 80Marseille - Nice par LGV 6 200 150Intercités par LC 8 100Total des trains Intercités 8 100 21 000

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Conclusion

• The main objective of the study realized by SYSTRA was to validate the new concept of High Speed Regional Services

• To reach this objective, SYSTRA has developed a specific modelling

• The new services, more comfortable and more rapid will add 50% more trips on the high speed line