All these projects include environmental rehabilitation works. For example, the construction of the Salon Nord interchange on the A7 included the installation of three multifunctional basins that will treat rainwater from the motorway before it is discharged into the environment.
Each year, VINCI Autoroutes also carries out several hundred maintenance projects to ensure its infrastructure remains in proper working order. In 2025, resurfacing work took place on sections of the A7, A8, A9, A11, A51, A52, A61, A62, A64 and A87. In all, 92% of reclaimed asphalt pavement from roadworks carried out across the network was recovered, and 46.5% was reused at VINCI Autoroutes worksites.
This project to renovate the A9 between Perpignannord and Leucate recycled 59% of the old road surface.
700 works operations were completed in 2025.
VINCI Autoroutes has pledged to shrink the carbon footprint of each project carried out across its network (upstream Scope 3) by an average of 50% by 2030, compared with the 2019 baseline. As such, the company, along with its contracting partners and public works companies, focus on integrating ecodesign principles into structures, expanding the use of low-carbon concrete, recycled steel and green energy to power worksite machinery, as well as optimising project methods and material transport. In 2025, worksite emissions were reduced by 33% compared with 2019 levels, in line with forecasts.
The construction operations carried out by VINCI Autoroutes also stand out for their considerable socio-economic impact. The projects carried out across its network in 2025 represented a total of 3.5 million hours worked. The larger projects also included professional integration programmes for the long-term unemployed, implemented in collaboration with public works companies and local unemployment offices. For example, over 177,000 integration hours were provided across the total duration of the A57 project in Toulon.
Rehabilitating land around motorways
Following on from operations to reduce the impact of its motorway infrastructure on ecosystems, VINCI Autoroutes has been working on the environmental regeneration of green spaces since 2021. As part of the partnership agreement with France’s National Forest Office, 120 sites have been analysed, with recommendations made regarding their rehabilitation. Projects include planting trees at the Gript Nord service area (A10) and creating prairies and wetlands as well as planting native species of trees in former service areas in Vendée (A83). In addition, methods for maintaining the network’s green spaces better consider how natural spaces evolve, coordinating human intervention with the life cycles of flora and fauna. The VINCI Autoroutes Foundation supports initiatives to conserve and restore natural regional assets. Over the past four years, it has financed 109 projects led by non-profit organisations or local authorities.
OPERATIONS
Safety
VINCI Autoroutes’ operating teams work continuously to ensure user safety and quality of service on its motorways.
Although motorways remain five times safer than other roads, driver inattention due to drowsiness, fatigue, distraction or irresponsible behaviour continues to endanger patrollers and their partners tasked with motorway safety, with potentially tragic outcomes. In 2025, 46 response vehicles were hit across the VINCI Autoroutes network (which works out at nearly one collision every week), including three in less than 12 hours on the A61 and A64 in September. To continue to raise driver awareness about the importance of keeping road workers safe, VINCI Autoroutes and the VINCI Autoroutes Foundation once again put on their roaming exhibition “Quand allez-vous percuter ?" (When is it going to hit home?). As part of the campaign, 28 accident-damaged response vehicles were put on display in the summer of 2025 in the toll plaza car park at Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, south of Paris, before they were moved around the VINCI Autoroutes network.