This study of the urban and environmental integration of the national road network has been undertaken within the framework of Apur’s partnership work programme and the thought and discussion which has been ongoing since 2012 concerning the road network at the heart of the conurbation. The study is being carried out in collaboration with the Ile-de-France Regional Interdepartmental Department of Infrastructure and Development (DRIEA), whose Roads Department runs the publicly-managed national road network system in Ile-de-France.
After detailed analysis and numerous exchanges with all the key players, four strategies for improvement likely to be put forward to all the partners concerned have been identified, ready for implementation in the period 2016 – 2020:
- Strategy 1. Enhance the greater metropolitan landscape and use large infrastructures to consolidate greenway network.
- Strategy 2. Prevent illegal occupation and fly tipping on the edges of motorways in Ile-de-France.
- Strategy 3. Improve interfaces between territories, approaches to cities and urban continuity.
- Strategy 4. Optimise exploitation of the network, reduction of congestion and insertion into the environment.
For each improvement strategy, the charter presents a diagnostic along with best practice surveys, as well as some detailed proposals concerning the A1 motorway (Paris/Roissy link; COP 21 site; centre of operations for the 2024 Olympic Games application).
50 years after the creation of the motorway network, a paradigm change has become necessary. Motorways are changing, their use is being optimised, their landscape and connections to territories are evolving; they are becoming a multifaceted and resource infrastructure, a support for the greenway network.
