It also allows children and teenagers to travel by themselves and to have access to all the cultural and sports services and facilities in the conurbation. This policy also meets the expectations of young retired people who have come to Charente-Maritime from the Paris area and demand more public transport facilities. The implementation of a public transport policy at CDV level creates an area of solidarity between the communes involved and particularly between town and rural areas. This solidarity is also at a financial level since the local authorities have agreed on a FFr 8 single price for tickets bought separately and FFr 5,90 for tickets bought in books. The geographical layout of the various sites of work, consumption, and housing has a significant impact on travel.
Town planning is a long-term project.
The objective is to seek a better balance between the various modes of transport, and to restore freedom of choice in terms of transport mode in the face of the quasi-hegemony of cars. The development of intermodality must achieve interconnection, that is the setting up of real centres of interchange where, in technical terms, the changeover from one mode to another is completely organised. The aim is to develop these multimodal and intermodal interchange centres where the user will have a single information point whatever the mode of transport or the destination chosen, and a common or even single ticket office for all modes. This project is being implemented for the current interchange centre and being examined for the SNCF railway station. The CDV is pursuing its multimodal and intermodal transport policy within the framework of the PDU currently being developed.