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> November 21-22, 2008 : Veolia Environment at the Salon Actionaria.
Our website was awarded the Boursoscan prize in the "Special Favourite" category.
> December 2006 :
Are urban concentration and sustainable mobility compatible challenges?
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At the show, this website was awarded a Coup de Cœur (“Special Favourite”) prize by Boursorama surfers using Boursoscan for its user-friendliness, clear layout and accurate information.
This prize was awarded to the Group for its financial communications targeted at individual shareholders, underlining how this website is our shareholders' preferred communication and information tool, after the Shareholder’s Letter and Guide. Our site was also awarded Boursorama's Individual Shareholder Grand Prize in 2006.
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“Are urban concentration and sustainable mobility compatible challenges?». This issue was debated over by Jean-Pierre Tardieu, President of the Veolia Environnement Institute and Francis Beaucire, geographer and professor at the University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne in charge of the master town planning and development : they spoke before an audience of 300 people at Eurosites in Paris in December 2006.
This annual conference was an opportunity for the shareholders as well to exchange their views on that issue.
As urban mobility is essential for man, the expected growth of agglomerations determines the design of the city for the 21th century. With a current world population of 6,3 billion people, more than half live in the cities today. Within a 3 decades, the population will reach 8 to 9 billion, 5 billion of whom will be living in the cities. Beyond the economic challenge, urban mobility has also a sociological and an ecological meaning at a planetary level. It’s has different aspects whether it concerns developed or emerging countries.
Unlike developed countries where transportation and networks are focused on CO ² emission, on energy saving and on accessibility, the emerging countries have to tackle huge problems among which accessing to a better quality of life.
There cannot be an economic development of the cities, if there is not, beforehand, a link between economic growth and good accessibility to job networks, populations, goods and services transportations ….
By 2010 - 2015, 500 cities will have more than one million inhabitants. They will bring 1,5 billion people together, 20% of whom will live in shantytowns. Let’s recall the definition of a shantytown : it is the “piece of city in which there is no water network, nor electricity, poor sanitation and no transportation.”
It’s against this backdrop that Jean-Pierre Tardieu and Francis Beaucire pointed out : economic, social, environmental and sustainable development challenges that play their part in the urban growth.
As the transportation network is a key tool to these challenges, what answers and what innovative solutions can be proposed in France, in Europe and mainly overseas ?
Among the responses, the public transit system is the most attractive and must put forward reliability, punctuality, foreseability, average speed and the comfort of the passengers which are the keys to success. This requirements contribute to the sustainable urban growth and are achievables with the implementation of dedicated lane for buses.
The technological and industrial innovations also contribute to this success : Rouen and Bordeaux where the Group Veolia Environment set up innovative processes : system for busses in Rouen and ground-based power supply system for light rail in Bordeaux. Cost-effective solutions can also be brought overseas : with the Fast Bus Transit or BRT, Bogota created in the bus a collective network where performances are comparable to a railway network.
Transportation is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas effects worldwide. Therefore, governments are involved. With the examples of London and Stockholm in Europe, the local authorities proved that it is essential to act on the regulation and the balance of the individual and collective means of transport. Indeed, the limitation of the road traffic associated with the increase of the rider ship traffic are the 2 solutions for a good alternative to the individual vehicle.
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