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https://doi.org/10.3141/1666-15

http://scholar.google.com...rent&publication_year=1999

The Praxitele system is the first large-scale, operational, public individual-transportation system--or station-car system--using self-service electric vehicles. It was developed in France by a consortium of industrial companies and research institutes, formed in 1993. Its operation started in the city of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, a high-tech center near Paris, at the end of 1997 with 50 electric vehicles from Renault. At midterm in the experiment, close to 500 participants were using the system. This is the first report on the experiment, which continued until the end of 1998. Preliminary conclusions show that users have expressed a high level of satisfaction and a desire to expand the system. However, no conclusion can be drawn yet on the economics of such a system, which remains expensive and underutilized.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1666, Transit Bus; Rural, Intercity, and Paratransit; New Technology, Capacity, and Quality of Service.

English

p. 125-132

1999

Transportation Research Record

0309070619

Figures (1) ; References (6) ; Tables (6)

Demonstration projects; Electric automobiles; Rail transit stations

Praxitele

Short trips

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (France)

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

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