Mobility Week - VINCI Airports promotes eco-friendly mobility for Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport employees
- On the occasion of European Mobility Week from September 18 to 22, VINCI Airports will showcase alternative transportation modes to single-occupancy car use for employees of the Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport platform for their home-to-work journeys, during a meeting on September 19.
- Two new partnerships are being launched with the carpooling platform Karos and the bike accessibility site Geovelo.
- Several other awareness-raising actions are also being undertaken to change the ways employees access the airport, in collaboration with companies involved in the Inter-Company Mobility Plan, such as a free introduction to Rhônexpress in partnership with SYTRAL Mobilités.
Changing the commuting habits of employees at Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport is one of the key measures to reduce CO2 emissions from scope 3(*) of the ACA4+ certification, obtained by Aéroports de Lyon, which are currently estimated at 9,000 tons. European Mobility Week from September 18 to 22 is an opportunity to raise awareness among airport employees about using new, less CO2-emissive modes of accessing the airport, thus contributing to the decarbonization of their company's activities.
This is why VINCI Airports at Lyon Airport is forming new partnerships:
Karos, through its app, allows users to carpool by identifying a passenger or driver on the same route with just a few clicks. Drivers can benefit from a government carpooling bonus (€100, including €50 for the first carpool), and passengers receive six months of free rides. Thus, Lyon Airport employees can carpool with over 17,000 other users of the app around the Lyon metropolitan area. This service will improve employees' purchasing power while reducing the carbon impact of their commutes.
Accessibility and safety for cyclists are facilitated through the partnership with Geovelo, which works in collaboration with VINCI Airports to update GIS data (information on cycling infrastructure and associated services) and identify key routes (safe and calm pathways to the airport). Cycling data from Geovelo users' activities in the area provides a usage basis for the CCEL (Community of Municipalities of Eastern Lyon) to enhance the cycling experience across the region.
Lastly, to also promote public transport, SYTRAL Mobilités is offering a round-trip ticket to introduce employees to the Rhônexpress tram-train service, which connects Part-Dieu to the airport in 30 minutes every 15 minutes, for any new subscription card creation. The company Berthelet will also be on-site to promote its lines on the TCL network connecting Lyon to Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport (Bus 47: serves stations between Meyzieu ZI via connection with Tram T3) and Lyon Airport. Bus 48: serves stations between Genas Bornicat and Lyon Airport.)
According to Tanguy Bertolus, Chairman of the Executive Board of Aéroports de Lyon: "Optimizing access to the airport platform is one of the key measures to decarbonize the activities of Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport and more broadly the Lyon airport platform. This initiative is part of VINCI Airports' environmental policy, which aims to reduce emissions from its airports and to engage all stakeholders in the airport ecosystem."
(*) ACA - Airport Carbon Accreditation: a global certification program for airport carbon management.
ACA level 4+, also known as “Transition,” completes the calculation of CO2 emissions by including those related to air traffic and road access to the airport platform (scope 3) and certifies the airport's actions to reduce these induced emissions.
