2007 Interactive Registration Document - Renault

In 2007, Renault participated as an expert in numerous roundtables on the
automobile’s role in mobility. These included a conference organized by the
association Avenir Transport (Transport’s Future) on the theme, “Transport and
Environment: Does the concept of sustainable mobility make sense?” Renault
also participated in a one-day event held by the CERTU, an urban transport
research center, to discuss the car’s future as a transport mode. This gave
Renault the opportunity to point out the automobile’s fl exibility and its wide
variety of product-service applications. It cited examples of its effective use in
other countries in multimodal transport systems and emphasized its intermodal
capacities.
Renault also presented its know-how in organizing transport for its employees
at an ADEME-sponsored conference on corporate transport planning.
DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE TRANSPORT SERVICES AT
RENAULT
Transport plans at the new Equinove offi ces in Plessis Robinson, near Paris, and
the Technocentre, in Guyancourt, are making it easier for Renault employees
to move around.
In July 2007 a new intranet server for car-pooling was installed for Rueil, which
will eventually be used by all Renault sites in France.
Other solutions were provided with the Paris mass transit authority, RATP,
in 2005. These included grouping bus shelters together and adding two shuttle
services from the Versailles Chantiers railway station and the Pont-de-Sèvres
metro station, with three coaches running morning and evening on each route,
transporting a total of 370 Group employees.
As a result of these initiatives, public transportation carries about 25% of the
traffi c, close to the Technocentre’s fi gure (public transport: 26%; car-pooling:
10% to 14.5%).
Exploratory research and international benchmarking on company’s
transportation plans were conducted, to identify best practices and glean
prospects for deploying these initiatives.
DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE TRANSPORT SERVICES FOR
THE SOCIETY
In 2005, Renault teamed up with the Swiss operator Mobility Car Sharing 9 , the
European car-sharing leader, to respond to the request for proposals issued by
the municipal authorities in Nantes in 2005. The aim of this project is to create
a joint venture to launch and manage a car-sharing service in that city. Renault
has proposed setting up an organization with private and public partners that
would grow and expand nationally so as to become profi t-making. Renault
helped design the service, as well as the procedure for adjusting supply to
demand and the balance between car-sharing and car rental. It also made
a commitment to share the risk during the service’s start-up phase. In order
to provide a highly professional and industrialized service, Renault proposed
an innovative implementation that would overhaul governance and decisiontaking
procedures. It has submitted proposals to other French cities that have
expressed interest in car-sharing services.
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Renault has offered special terms to the operators of car-sharing services in
Paris (Caisse Commune) and Strasbourg (Auto’trement).
3.3.3.4 RENAULT’S GLOBAL INITIATIVES
TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE
MOBILITY
Renault has taken part in an international project on sustainable mobility for
2030. As part of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development 10 ,
12 American, Japanese and European companies from the automobile and
oil industries launched a major study on what mobility should be in 2030 and
how to achieve this.
The aim of Mobility 2030 is to develop a vision of sustainable mobility that takes
account of needs and proposes solutions that are acceptable to consumers
and society in terms of employment and the environment. It promotes concrete
actions with the assistance of a support network in both developed and
developing countries.
The fi nal Mobility 2030 report was published in July 2004, following the
earlier Mobility 2001 study, which analyzed the general situation. The partner
companies then began discussing a road safety action plan for developing
countries. This led to the creation of the GRSI by the Global Road Safety
Partnership (see below).
In 2006, as a follow-up to Mobility 2030, Renault became involved in a new
project, called “Mobility for Development”. The project looks at case studies
of cities in India, Brazil, China, and Africa, and the links between mobility and
development. The aim is to publish a global report to enable governments
and institutions to measure the extent to which infrastructure mobility impacts
on development. One focus will be on the challenges of providing mobility
to everyone, with consideration given to the most-affected populations and
geographic areas (for example, connections between the rural and urbansuburban
milieus).
As part of this project, Renault helped organize a conference in which the
main possible solutions for providing sustainable mobility in Bangalore were
debated on the basis of a shared diagnostic. A similar event held in Shanghaï
discussed the risks that urban mobility planning would fail to keep pace with
economic growth.
In 2007, Renault was once again a participant in the SIMBA project, supported
by Ertico and the European Commission, which aims to identify research
cooperation priorities between India, Brazil, South Africa, China and the European
Union. The project focuses on intelligent transportation systems, infrastructure,
mobility, safety, and the automotive industry. Renault presented possibilities for
cooperation with Indian institutions on the subject of pedestrian safety in the
design of road infrastructures.
Renault also sponsored a national conference at Anna University in Chennai,
India, where the focus was on the problems arising by the outward sprawl of
Indian cities and the subsequent new mobility needs.
(9 ) Mobility Car Sharing has 60,000 members and manages 1,800 vehicles based at 1,000 locations in 400 Swiss communities. Renault vehicles make up nearly 60% of its fleet.
(10 ) The World Business Council for Substainable Development (WBCSD) consists of 180 international companies from 30 countries and 20 major industrial sectors that are engaged in implementing
sustainable sustainable development development in three key areas: environmental environmental protection, protection, social equity and economic prosperity. prosperity. The The Council’s Council’s work work focuses on eco-efficiency, eco-efficiency, innovation and social responsibility responsibility in in
the business community (www.wbcsd.org).
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