Mobility plan for Geneva Airport employees

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• Mobility plan for Geneva Airport employees

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Constraints and needs for the mobility of Geneva
airport staff

• Airport staff all employees working in the
  airport area
• Airport management (AIG) 700 employees
• 8000 employees, more than 200 companies
• Working hours
• 86 irregular schedule
• 25 of daily commuting trips starting between 4h
  and 6h
• Living areas
• 58 in state of Geneva (good public
  transportation network)
• 26 in other Swiss state (good access by train)
• 16 in France (no public transportation)
• Airport access
• 36 in an area well served by public
  transportation
• 27 in an area less than 4 km from the airport
  main building

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Overview of the airport area and public
transportation network
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Objectives of the airport mobility plan

• Goal decrease the negative effects of road
  traffic and ensure easy Airport access
• Noise and air pollution are exceeding the limit
  values
• Clogging of roads to/from the Airport
• Airport car parks are saturated strong problem
  for both staff and passengers
• 2020 Objectives
• 45 of Airport staff and passengers use public
  transport or non polluting transportation

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Mobility plan history

• History
• April 2002 free Public Transportation in the
  airport area
• March 2004 early/late shuttles
• subsidy for Public Transportation pass
• September 2005 improvement of the shuttle
  service important communication campaign
• April 2007 increase of the shuttle
  network ecomobility subsidy new rules
  for the car park use
• important communication campaign
• September 2009 (planned) introduction of
  carsharing
• improvement of the shuttle service

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Mobility plan founding

• Founding of the mobility measures
• Since 2004, progressive increase of the employee
  car park price (current prices are well below
  market price in the area)
• This increase makes the car less competitive
  compared to public transportation
• The money raised with the increase is used to
  fund the mobility measures

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Early/late shuttles network
3 regular lines
9  on call  areas
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Mobility plan incentive measures

• Public transportation (Unireso bus - tram,
  coach and train) pass subsidy for employees
  without car parks (occasional car parks allowed)
• CHF 100.- (67 ) subsidy on annual bus, tram or
  train pass (CHF 440.-/290 for AIG employees)
• Bus and tram (Unireso), additional reduction CHF
  120.- (80 ) reduction due to orders centralizing
  
• New bike parks, and an air column
• CHF 440.-/290 ecomobility subsidy for AIG
  employees who bike or walk most of time
  (occasional car parks allowed) to go to work
• Communication campaign (mobility kit)

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Bikes infrastructures

• Sheltered parking, cycling lanes and an air
  columns

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Duration limitation for staff car parking

• Access to car parks is time limited for all
  employees
• Full time 240 hours per month
• Half time 120 hours per month, half price
• Occasional 60 hours per month, quarter of
  price, allows to get the public transportation or
  ecomobility subsidy
• This duration limitation does not apply to the
  crew of airline companies

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Staff car park eligibility

• Eligibility conditions living at a distance
  higher than 1 km AND in a location with bad
  public transport
• Public transportation commuting time of more than
  20 mn and more than 1.5 the driving time.
• Conditions on the frequency (peak hours and off
  peak) as well
• Bus/tram stop at a distance higher than 300 m or
  train station at a distance higher than 800 m
  from the living place
• Occasional car park (60h per month) available for
  all employees

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Car park exclusion area (good public
transportation)
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Costs and use of incentive measures

• Public transportation and ecomobility subsidy
• 86 participating companies representing 7500
  employees
• All airport companies 916 subsidised employee,
  13 of the staff
• AIG 144 subsidised employees, 21 of the
  staff, increasing
• Early/late shuttles
• Regular increase of use 24653 users in 2008
  (average 68 / day)
• 50 increase compared to 2007 (150 compared
  to 2006)
• Cost
• Around 900000 CHF (600000 ) in 2008
• Fully paid by the price increase of the staff car
  park

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Modal split evolution
2000 study 2007 study

• 9 decrease of car use (60 )
• 1 increase of motorised two-wheels (12 )
• 4 increase of walk/bike (9 )
• 3 increase of public transportation use (18 )
• 8 increase of sustainable mobility, from 20
  to 28

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Evaluation

• Difficulties
• Communication to all companies staff
• Working hours and work organisation complexity
  thorough the companies
• Reluctance to change  old habits 
• Strengths
• Good public transportation network in Geneva
  city and for Swiss cities (train)
• Legal rules prevent the building of new park
  spaces gt helps us to convince people that there
  is no other way than changing one transportation
  mode
• We are in charge of most of the parking in the
  area gt we can set the rules, and we get money to
  fund our actions
• What did change
• Employees starts thinking about their commuting
  choice
• Opinion and perception on biking

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Action for airlines passengers

• Free ticket offered by AIG, allows to use public
  transport in Geneva for a period of 80 minutes
• 2 machines in the luggage collecting area
• Increase of about 30 in 2008 compared to 2007
  of unireso tickets withdrawn from airport
  machines
• Costs in 2008 CHF 320000.- (215000 euros)
• Other promoting actions for public transport
• Reduction vouchers for train tickets (CHF 10.-)
• Advertising and information about coach companies
• Modal split 2008
• 39 for Public Transportation

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Future evolutions

• Next steps
• Improve the network of early/late shuttles
  (Sept. 09)
• Develop an attractive carsharing tool for
  employees living away from the public
  transportation network (Sept. 09)
• Lobbying with the authorities to improve public
  transportation network around the airport
  (especially in France)
• Communication, communication, communication