Motorway stimulus plan and motorway investment plan
VINCI Autoroutes continued to implement both plans, which together represent contractual investments of €2.4 billion.
Major road widening projects carried out as part of the motorway stimulus plan signed in 2015 with the concession granting authority are under way on the A10 (two sections in central France: one 16 km section north of Orléans and a second 24 km section south of Tours); on the A61 (a total of 35 km, with a first 10 km section commissioned in 2022); and the A57 (a 7 km section in Greater Toulon in south-east France). Construction work on all these projects always involves environmental rehabilitation works, such as the creation of water treatment ponds and structures to protect wildlife.
In addition, as part of the motorway investment plan signed in 2018 with the concession-granting authority, VINCI Autoroutes continued to invest in a series of network upgrades. These upgrades are jointly financed by the local authorities con-cerned and aim to enhance accessibility for periphery communities and improve mobility within the regions. Examples include the commissioning of the new Agen west interchange (A62) in south-west France and the Belcodène interchange (A52) in south-east France, and ongoing work on the Saran-Gidy interchange (A10) north of Orléans and on the redesigned Porte de Gesvres intersection at the junction between the A11 and the Nantes ring road in north-west France. Preliminary studies are being conducted for a dozen other projects. The plan also includes a major focus on developing carpooling (see below).
In 2022, some 600 roadworks projects, including surface and infrastructure renovations, were either at the preliminary study phase or under way on the VINCI Autoroutes network. In all, about 4 million hours of roadworks were carried out on the network in 2022. With this level of activity, the recent rollout of VINCI Autoroutes’ Full BIM programme has optimised management of its motorway assets through better coordination of infrastructure monitoring, design- construction, renovation, maintenance and management operations, and through the introduction of a geographic information system that lists all the components of the network’s infrastructure.
4,443 km of motorway managed by VINCI Autoroutes.
The Porte de Gesvres intersection at the junction between the A11 and the Nantes ring road is being reconfigured as part of the motorway investment plan