Key Benefits:
Publics concerned: transport organizing authorities and public transport companies of persons.
Purpose: determination of the average spacing criteria for stops and change in the frequency of passage of regular public urban road transport services.
Entry into force: the text comes into force on the day after its publication.
Notice: in the case of regular public transport of road or guided persons, is considered by law as an urban transport service any service of transport of persons carried out in a non-seasonal manner in the territorial jurisdiction of a mobility organising authority, or by means of guided transport vehicles within the meaning of theArticle L. 2000-1 of the Transport Code, either by means of any terrestrial motor vehicle, with the exception of buses, and whose average spacing of stops and the variation of the passage frequency meet the criteria defined by decree. This decree defines these criteria.
References: the decree is taken for the application of theArticle 18 of Act No. 2015-991 of 7 August 2015 carrying out a new territorial organization of the Republic. It is available on the website Légifrance (http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr).
The Prime Minister,
On the report of the Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy,
Vu le Transport codeincluding article L. 1231-2;
Vu la Act No. 2015-991 of 7 August 2015 bearing the new territorial organization of the Republic, including its article 18;
Considering the advice of the National Standards Assessment Board dated 5 November 2015,
Decrete:
For application 2° of Article L. 1231-2 of the Transport Code, any regular public transport service of urban road traffic has an average spacing of stops less than or equal to 500 metres and a ratio between peak hour frequency and frequency in hollow hour less than or equal to 2.5.
For a given service, the average spacing of stops is defined as the average interval in meters between the stops served on the go and return journey, taking into account only the open route to the customers.
For a given service, the ratio between peak hour frequency and hollow hour frequency corresponds to the maximum number of journeys and trips open to customers made for one hour by road vehicles assigned to this service divided by the minimum number of journeys and return open to customers made for one hour by the same vehicles.
This ratio is calculated inside the hourly range from 8 hours to 19 hours of the working day, outside the school holiday periods, which presents the highest offer of transport in number of trips and return.
Section D. 2333-86 of the General Code of Territorial Communities is replaced by the following:
"Art. D. 2333-86.-Right to the benefit of the proceeds of the transport payment the investment and operating expenses:
« 1° Urban and non-urban public transport carried out in the territorial jurisdiction of the mobility authority and organized by that authority;
« 2° Other public transport services that, without being carried out entirely within the territorial jurisdiction of the mobility organizing authority, contribute to the service of the agglomeration within the framework of a contract with the authority responsible for the organization of mobility;
« 3° Operations to improve the intermodality between public and bicycle transport;
« 4° Any action within the competence of the mobility authorities within the meaning of the articles L. 1231-1, L. 1231-8 and L. 1231-14 to L. 1231-16 Transport code.
"These services are defined by agreements between the mobility organizing authority defined to theArticle L. 1231-1 of the Transport Code having established the transport payment and the transport companies. These conventions provide for the characteristics of the service offered, the general level of rates, reductions made and the modalities for calculating and paying compensation. »
In section D. 1214-6 of the Transportation Code, the words: "urban transport perimeter" are replaced by the words: "territorial jurisdiction of the mobility authority".
The Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy and the Secretary of State for Transport, the Sea and Fisheries are responsible, each with regard to it, for the execution of this decree, which will be published in the Official Journal of the French Republic.
Done on December 8, 2015.
Manuel Valls
By the Prime Minister:
Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy,
Royal
State Secretary for Transport, the Sea and Fisheries,
Alain Vidalies