| Titre | RER & interconnexions : les vertus d'un réseau hybride | |
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| Auteur | Corinne Gely, Jean-Marc Offner, Gabriel Dupuy | |
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Revue | Flux |
| Numéro | no 2, juin 1990 | |
| Page | 81-94 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The Parisian Regional Express Network was founded on the principal of interconnection. This notion has in fact two meanings: setting up technical relations of infrastructures controlled by different users; and the creation of lines which cross Paris in liaison with suburban railway "bundles". These interconnection modalities have proven to be complementary in the constitution of the RER in the Paris metropolitan area. But they also hide the combination of completely distinct operator strategies. On the one hand, the "RATP" (Paris Urban Transports), trying to retain its monopoly over Parisian urban transportation, has given priority to the technical connotation of interconnection. On the other hand, the "SNCF" (French National Railroads), trying to flex its muscles as THE transportation specialist of Paris and its suburbs, has adopted a much larger definition of the term. Borrowing from both meanings of the word "interconnection", the RER has built its success on the very ambiguity of the hybridization RATP-SNCF, thereby developing its own network logic. and the creation of lines which cross Paris in liaison with suburban railway "bundles". These interconnection modalities have proven to be complementary in the constitution of the RER in the Paris metropolitan area. But they also hide the combination of completely distinct operator strategies. On the one hand, the "RATP" (Paris Urban Transports), trying to retain its monopoly over Parisian urban transportation, has given priority to the technical connotation of interconnection. On the other hand, the "SNCF" (French National Railroads), trying to flex its muscles as THE transportation specialist of Paris and its suburbs, has adopted a much larger definition of the term. Borrowing from both meanings of the word "interconnection", the RER has built its success on the very ambiguity of the hybridization RATP-SNCF, thereby developing its own network logic. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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