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French motorways: experience and assessment

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  • Alain Fayard
  • Francesco Gaeta
  • Emile Quinet

    (PJSE - Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

The French road network includes 976,000 km of roads, 38,600 km of which compose the central government's road network (national roads, free and tolled motorways) under the responsibility of the French Roads Directorate. The rest of the network is run either by counties (360,000 km) or by local districts (595,000 km). The French regions (France being divided into 22 regions), which contribute to the financing of the national and district road networks, do not manage any road. It is worth noting that the whole French road network carries roughly 78% of freight traffic and 90% of passenger traffic, the remaining being mostly borne by rail. On the central government's road network, which corresponds to 4% of the whole road network, 40% of traffic is concentrated, in particular on motorways and more generally on toll motorways (7,840 km), which support a length-weighted average of 26,400 vehicles per day. Generally speaking, the average daily flow per kilometer is about three times larger on motorways than on ordinary national roads and about 30 times larger than on local roads.

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  • Alain Fayard & Francesco Gaeta & Emile Quinet, 2005. "French motorways: experience and assessment," Post-Print halshs-00754050, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00754050
    DOI: 10.1016/S0739-8859(05)15008-2
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    1. Germà Bel, 2011. "Infrastructure and nation building: The regulation and financing of network transportation infrastructures in Spain (1720--2010)," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(5), pages 688-705, August.
    2. Jose de Sousa & Eve Sihra & Thierry Mayer, 2019. "Market Integration and Convergence in Consumption Patterns," 2019 Meeting Papers 1178, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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    4. Alain Fayard & David Meunier & Emile Quinet, 2012. "Motorway Provision and Management in France: Analyses and Policy Issues," Networks and Spatial Economics, Springer, vol. 12(2), pages 299-319, June.
    5. Meunier, David & Quinet, Emile, 2010. "Tips and Pitfalls in PPP design," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 30(1), pages 126-138.

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    France; Motorway;

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