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It had been anticipated for months: on the Principality's urban network, which is often of sharing electric and autonomous vehicles.
7 February, the Minister of State, Pierre jammed,” underlines Céline Caron-Dagioni, who “With rising prices and growing ecological
Dartout, and the Minister of Public Works, knows that “the only true, effective, carbon-free concerns, the individual car is starting to be
the Environment and Urban Development, solution, which attracts a significant number seen as a constraint. We now need to rethink
Céline Caron-Dagioni, unveiled the main axes of travellers, is the TER train.” transport, in particular through vehicle-sharing,
of Monaco's Mobility Plan. There is nothing Regarding intramural traffic, “an evaluation of new lighter and less energy-consuming means
revolutionary but instead “financially feasible the bus network is underway by a specialised of transport, on-demand transport and the
and effective proposals” according to the body. The aim of this is to obtain an external facilitation of multimodal travel,” explains Eric
government. “These are projects which have opinion concerning the efficiency of our public Lebeau, Managing Director of the The Vedecom
been the subject of a fairly long maturation, transport network, in order to examine whether Institute, which, in conjunction with Macif,
requiring arbitration to correctly respond to changes to the network would be relevant. An publishes a yearly barometer on French urban
the needs expressed both in terms of access audit of the traffic pattern is also underway,” mobility. 100 to 500 automated passenger
to the Principality and internal traffic,” believes adds the DEEU. On the other hand, the Mobility transport services without an operator on
Pierre Dartout, who says he is “listening to Plan seems to have ruled out certain projects: board are expected to be deployed over the
the population, employees and business exit the inner-city cable car which was to border by 2030...
leaders,” because the population - particularly connect the Jardin Exotique to Fontvieille,
commuters - is fed up with the paralysing as well as the lift from the place d'Armes to
rush-hour tailbacks, as well as packed local the Rocher. “No study is underway on these How much does it cost?
TER trains, phenomena that worsen each year subjects,” responds the DEEU. As for bus lanes More than 40,000 workers reside
from April onwards when the Rolex Masters crossing the Principality from east to west, outside the country. They mainly
starts – despite the fact that, according this has also been shelved for the moment in come in from the west and from
to official figures, there are fewer vehicles favour of new express bus lines. increasingly further away within the
entering the Principality. Surprisingly, the Whilst the National Council “notes with Alpes-Maritimes department.
Integrated Mobility Management Centre satisfaction the government's actions around “The Principality is investing massively
(CIGM) registered 98,392 car trips in 2023 mobility,” it is a safe bet that the issue will in the creation of infrastructures
enabling the achievement of its urban
whilst since 2010, they have oscillated between come back in force within the framework of mobility objectives,” says the DEEU.
103,000 and 107,000 daily entries and exits of the examination of the next Spring Amending Thus, for example, to improve internal
vehicles per year. How are vehicles counted Budget and will continue to fuel debates in the traffic, the state has combined two
when entering and leaving the Principality? coming years. National Councillors are in fact measures: «On the one hand, the
“The CIGM relies on 19 counting points using actively campaigning for "the establishment of construction at the entrance to
loops installed under the asphalt to calculate a maritime shuttle between Nice and Monaco", Monaco of the Salines Parking and
density (number of vehicles entering and "the launch of studies for a Nice-Monaco the new bus station for which the
exiting daily). These loops make it possible to express metro, complementary to the TER", as amounts, in the 2024 budget, amount
count vehicles and ensure the analysis of the well as for "the publication of a development to €225 million including tax, to which
state of traffic - fluid or saturated,” specifies master plan.” is added the €11 million including
the Ministry of Public Works, the Environment tax necessary for the creation of the
and Urban Development (DEEU). * Toll for Monaco? Galerie des Salines; and on the other,
a strengthening of public transport
Will we one day see radical measures in options and services – Monaco
National Council Satisfied Monaco such as the banning of 'foreign' cars, Bus Company (CAM) and Monabike
It might seem counter-intuitive but improving for example, the use of Crit'Air-style stickers, – for which the amount entered in
traffic is a necessity for the attractiveness of or the introduction of an urban toll? “It’s an the State Amending Budget in 2023
the country. To achieve this, the Mobility Plan idea that deserves to be explored further,” was of the order of €20 million,
relies on “meshing the networks together, believes the Minister of State, aware that such including €6 million for the CAM
the complementarity of solutions according systems already exist in London and in some decarbonisation plan, allowing the
to uses, targets and populations.” Take the Scandinavian cities. “For the moment, we are acquisition of electric buses and the
projects of the dissuasive car park, the express not considering setting up a toll at the entrance equipment of depots.”
express link to Brasca, creating good-value to Monaco or only admitting Monégasque- or In 2023, the total cost of interurban
park-and-ride facilities, the modification of the Alpes-Maritimes-registered vehicles, which is, public transport services, including
bus network with the experimentation of direct however, the case for entry to Monaco-Ville. carpooling, was €11.7 million, broken
down between funding from the TER
lines and transport on demand and, above all, We have not launched a study but the question (€8,414,980), the CARF (€165,000), the
the Region Sud's plan of intensification of the will inevitably arise one day,” he admitted. Nice-Monaco-Menton line (€590,730),
timetable of the TER train service from the end And why not, in the future, imagine that Monaco carpooling (€576,250) and Gare SNCF
of 2024: these are all measures underway or will use technological advances in AI and participation (€2,007,002). “For 2024,
planned, details of which look at in this issue. mobility. The 7 edition of the Monaco Women the amount entered in the State
th
“There is no magic solution […] If we channel Forum at One Monte-Carlo showed how AI is Budget for intercity services amounts
all incoming vehicles into peripheral areas, transforming not only urban vehicles but also to €15.76 million,” indicates the DEEU.
these are all vehicles which will not impact our approach to travel, with a futuristic model

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