Charles De Gaulle Airport and electric transit 

Aéroports de Paris builds, develops and manages airports including Paris-Orly, Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Le Bourget. It accommodates nearly 460 airlines and last year the group handled 82.5 million passengers at three airports.

• Electrically powered-public transport is one of the cleanest of forms of public transport, and across the globe is widely recognized as highly cost-effective and environmentally beneficial.

What are we doing?

• In April 2007, Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport completed work on a brand new automatic metro line; the CDGVAL.
• CDGVAL is a free driverless train transferring passengers and the 85 000 employees of Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport. It links the 3 terminals of the airport, the RER-TGV stations and long-term car parks.
• The free CDGVAL service will carry around 140,000 passengers a day around the clock.

What is the result?  

• The metro line will cut bus traffic by half between five strategic points, including the three air terminals and the TGV/RER train stations.
• 100% electric, CDGVAL makes it possible to save 750 tonnes of fuel per year and to relieve the atmosphere of the 15 tonnes of NOx and 2500 tonnes of CO2 that were released annually by the buses it replaces.
• It will cut journey time between the two furthest points on the system (3.5 km) from the current 25 minutes (by shuttle bus) to 8 minutes.
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