Greater Reims innovates on its network with Matawan
While we were at the Rencontres Nationales du Transport Public, we announced that we had signed a contract with the urban community of Greater Reims to modernise its transport network and make it interoperable with those of the Grand Est region.
One of the largest inter-municipal authorities in France, with 143 communes and 300,000 inhabitants, Greater Reims is committed to developing a new offer combining different modes of mobility, both urban and suburban, and innovative services to meet its territorial, social and environmental development objectives.
As a signatory of the Grand Est Region’s Intermodality and User Services Charter (RGE Charter), the urban community of Reims, together with its Project Management Agency (Nextendis) and the operator Transdev, called on us via the Public Transport Purchasing Office (CATP) to modernise the network and ensure its interoperability with the other networks in the region. This will enable passengers to travel easily throughout the region.
We will be rolling out our digital platform in the urban community from the last quarter of 2024, bringing our innovations in ticketing, electronic payment and quality of service.
Open payment to pay and validate with your bank card...
Our teams are responsible for replacing the current system, which was installed 12 years ago, with our SaaS platform, coupled with the implementation of open payment. This technological combo will enable users to pay for and validate their tickets in a variety of ways, and for the first time on the Greater Reims network using their bank card.
The Greater Reims network is a major new network equipped with digital solutions developed by Matawan, with 190 vehicles equipped – including 18 trams and 24 high service level buses – and more than 510 on-board validators.
... to the single title in the Grand Est region
We will also provide the interfaces needed to combine the different modes of transport available within the urban community of Reims. This is the case, for example, with the P+R (Park-and-Ride) interface, which encourages people to park their vehicles in a Park-and-Ride car park to access the public transport network and easily reach the city centre.
Following the same logic, we will also make it possible to validate the M-Ticket introduced by the Region by interoperating the Greater Reims transport network with the various networks of the Grand Est region. This smartphone ticket will be issued by the regional platform in the form of a QR code that can be read and validated by the Matawan validators on the Greater Reims network.
In this way, we are supporting Greater Reims in fulfilling our commitments in terms of intermodality and user services. Our common objective is to simplify everyday travel.
"At Matawan, our ambition is to provide everyone with the experience of simplified, seamless mobility that, by facilitating intermodal travel, encourages the use of public transport and other modes of mobility. The quest for public utility mobility to which we aspire at Matawan cannot be achieved without a dynamic commitment from local authorities. That's why we're proud to be working with major conurbations like Greater Reims to promote shared mobility."
"At Greater Reims, we are committed to innovations that bring value to our users. We also have a strong objective of territorial cohesion between rural and urban areas, to which Transport on Demand (TaD) and the TER contribute. In a region as vast and varied as ours, it's important to be able to include all our citizens and provide them with mobility tailored to their needs. We are delighted to be able to offer them a new mobility experience thanks to Matawan's Cloud technology."