SHARED MOBILITY AND PARTNERSHIPS WITH REGIONAL AUTHORITIES. At end-2022, the VINCI Autoroutes network had 45 carpool car parks, five of which were opened over the year, or a total of some 3,733 free spaces in service. As part of the motorway investment plan, the VINCI Autoroutes network will double its carpool parking capacity in the next few years. VINCI Autoroutes plans to create about 40 more carpool parking facilities, in partnership with the regional authorities. It is also working with them to develop multimodal transport hubs that connect the motorway with city public transport net-works. The low-carbon motorway agreements signed by VINCI Autoroutes with regional authorities foster these sustain-able mobility initiatives by incorporating them in a long-term collaboration scheme of solutions tailored to regional needs. VINCI Autoroutes signed three new partnerships of this kind in 2022 with the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in east-central France, the Communauté d’agglomération du Pays Basque regional authority and the Syndicat des Mobilités du Pays Basque-Adour union in south-west France, and with Greater Nîmes authorities in south-east France.
In addition to its initiatives to decarbonise road mobility, VINCI Autoroutes has pledged to halve direct CO2 emissions from its own activities (Scopes 1 and 2) by 2030. To do so, it has continued to renew its fleet of vehicles – 56% of its light utility vehicles were electric-powered by the end of 2022 – and install LED lighting on its network. These are its two main sources of direct emissions. As a result of these efforts, VINCI Autoroutes has reduced its carbon footprint by 36% compared with 2018.
As a programme manager, VINCI Autoroutes regularly renovates its road surfaces as they are subjected to significant mechanical stress from the traffic. These operations involve the extraction of significant quantities of asphalt – about one million tonnes a year. Road renovation is therefore a key issue in the circular economy and carbon foot-print reduction. Roadworks carried out by VINCI Autoroutes on its network represent about half of its indirect upstream Scope 3 emissions. Out of the asphalt pavement reclaimed during these renovation works, 94% is now recycled, and 46% of that was reused in its own roadworks in 2022. Its aim for the coming years is to maintain this percentage at more than 45% and halve the CO2 emissions linked to renovation works on its network by 2030.
VINCI Autoroutes uses next-generation mobile asphalt plants on a growing number of motorway renovation work-sites. These plants recycle up to 70% of the used asphalt on site. Thanks to this technology, to the switch to biofuels and to reduced transport of materials, VINCI Autoroutes has halved the carbon footprint of its roadworks. It is also trialling new methods on the motor-way network. For example, the surfaces on a section of the A20 between Souillac and Cahors-nord, in southern France, were renovated for the first time using a cold mix asphalt recycling process developed by VINCI Construction.
