TER Franche-Comté
The TER Franche -Comté is a transport company that for the French region of Franche -Comté, the logistics of local public transport (LPT ) provides. Like the other TER companies in France, she is co-financed by the regional government and operated by the state railway SNCF.
The Company TER Franche -Comté operates their lines over an area of 16,200 km ² and stops at 65 stations. So each station has to supply an average an area of 250 km ². The boundaries of the traffic area form the Doubs department (25) Law ( 39), Haute -Saône (70) and the formerly belonging to Alsace Territoire de Belfort (90).
The regional administration evaluates the cooperation that started in September 2000 between the Department and the SNCF as the very first in France. In fact, since 1998 first collaborative efforts had been successful in Alsace. In 2002, then finally went for a period of five years, the agreement between the regional government under then- President Jean -Francois Humbert and the SNCF agreement in force that SNCF would be responsible for the department as an operator for regional rail transport. On 21 December 2006 an extension through 2012 was approved.
By signing the contract, the cost of the modernization of rolling stock have been fixed: So it was already known at the beginning that by 2009 85 million Euros were spend, of which, however, more than half was co-financed by the state. In the measures was included:
- Acquisition of nine " AutoRail à grande capacité " (5 X 4 Z 76500 and 27500 ) for 33 million euros
- Modernization " reversible Rames regional branches " of several Z 11500 (Z 2 ), ( RRR) and Corail train units
- Best possible appreciation of the stations and stops
- Improvement of clock frequencies, especially for the student traffic ( with the exception of routes Besançon - Vesoul, Besançon, Pontarlier and Lons -Dole )
With the extension of the contract for cooperation some new trains were purchased, more AutoRail à grande capacité and in 2008 two WendezugCorail, these have been fully renovated from an older rolling stock and equipped with air conditioning. By the end of 2009 should have been 89 percent of the fleet of replaced before 2002 or thoroughly renovated to be ..
In addition, the stations were using the state modernized and a clock schedule since December 2011, introduced which provides easy- to-remember departure times.
Infrastructure
Currently 840 km railway line are in the Franche-Comté available, which are served by 770 km (92%) in regular service. Of the gross - track systems are 49% electrified ( north-west of the major axis is no track electric), 42% are twofold. Furthermore, there are 83 tunnels with a total length of 34 km, the longest of them on the border with Switzerland measures 6,000 meters ( Mont d'or ), of which 5,111 are located in France.
According to the company, 94.5 percent of the trains are on time. Average run 15,000 people daily with the TER Franche -Comté. By far the most important railway station is Besançon - Viotte, followed by Belfort, Montbéliard, Vesoul and Dole. The most important railway line in the northeast-southwest transport is the railway Dole - Besançon - Belfort.
Since December 2011, the trains of the TER Franche -Comté also operate the new station Besançon Franche -Comté TGV.
Sources and links
- Study of development opportunities (PDF, 2.2 MB)
- View route in the region