“The car remains the primary motorized mode, but at the same time public transport is widely used. Cycling is growing a lot, cycling has established itself in Paris”after Covid, declared Nicolas Bauquet, general director of the Paris Region Institute, interviewed Thursday April 4 on franceinfo.
With Ile-de-France Mobilités, SNCF and RATP, the Paris Region Institute carried out a vast investigation on the movements of Ile-de-France residents. More than 3,300 volunteers agreed to have a GPS unit record their movements for six months. This survey confirms the development of teleworking and therefore, “Today we have a much more à la carte use of transport which plays on intermodalities. Today we are documenting what we anticipated”indicated Nicolas Bauquet.
franceinfo: What struck you the most in this post-Covid survey, which trips have changed the most among Ile-de-France residents?
Nicolas Bauquet: We absolutely needed to take a new photograph because a lot happened after Covid. To really design mobility policies we need to know what is happening and so we invented this device, 3,300 Ile-de-France residents played the game. We were able to follow them for a week each to get this new photograph. There is in particular the development of teleworking, more than two days for those who telework, on Monday and Friday, 40% of executives are teleworking. We also see that we have three times more trips between Ile-de-France and outside Ile-de-France on Fridays, this is the proof we were looking for of the fact that after the pandemic we really have a change in mode of travel which is a change in lifestyle.