For the Aéroport d'Orly station district, the opening of line 14 of the Grand Paris Express in June 2024 will be followed by the opening of line 18 in 2027. The station is located at the heart of the airport site, at the level of the new junction building between the airport's south and west terminals, which will be handed over in 2019. To the northeast of the airport zone, the Cœur d'Orly urban project covers an area of 67 hectares, including 5 in the station district. It includes an office building, a 91,000 m² tertiary campus and a 700-room hotel complex, most of which has already been delivered. A pedestrian bridge, delivered in 2017, links the district to the airport.
The arrival of the Grand Paris Express will considerably improve public transport accessibility to the airport and the future Cœur d'Orly business district. The metro will make it possible to reach the center of Paris in less than 15 minutes, and the area accessible by a 45-minute journey on public transport will increase by 247%, benefiting both travelers and the 28,300 people who work at Paris-Orly airport.
Launched in 2013, the Observatoire des quartiers de gare du Grand Paris Express is a partnership tool that brings together the Atelier parisien d'urbanisme (Apur), the Société des grands projets (SGP), the Direction régionale et interdépartementale de l'environnement, de l'aménagement et des transports (DRIEAT) and the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (Insee) as well as the Établissement public foncier d'Île-de-France (EPFIF) and the Institut Paris Region (IPR). The aim of the observatory is to report on the urban and social transformations linked to the arrival of the metro, at the level of station districts, lines and the network.
Ten years after the first survey, a new phase of the observatory has begun. In keeping with the timetable for the start of operations, the new studies are based on the same perimeter around each station, with an 800-meter radius corresponding to the immediate area of influence covered in a 10-15 minute walk. They also include the main indicators for comparative analysis.
Seven themes provide a fine-grained overview of current and future urban changes - Living environment - Population and jobs - Housing supply and prices - Local life, uses and new centrality - Accessibility and mobility - Environment. They are accompanied by a simple datavisualization, accessible to all from the Apur website and updated every year.
