Offering less polluting journeys and alternatives to the car: sites and guidance applications will soon have to submit to this.
Multimodal transport applications and sites, such as Google Maps, Waze, Mappy or Bonjour RATP, will have to "highlight" the "route proposals with the lowest impact in terms of greenhouse gas emissions tight ".
A government initiative.
These provisions, voted in August 2021 in article 122 of the Climate Law, were published in a decree in the Official Journal on August 3, and clarified by an order from the Minister Delegate for Transport.
As soon as a user tries to plan a trip, the result should display an estimate of the pollution caused, with the quantities of greenhouse gases and air pollutants emitted by the various suggested modes of transport.
If the journey includes a passage by car over a portion where the maximum authorized speed is greater than or equal to 110 km/h, these applications must offer alternatives allowing a reduction in speed of 20 km/h, and therefore less emissions .
Awareness messages
From December 2022, all sites and apps will have to regularly broadcast awareness messages when a user is considering a car trip.
These messages of the type "For short journeys, favor walking or cycling" or "Going from 130 to 110 km/h on the motorway reduces your consumption by 20%" will be accompanied by a signature "#SeDéplacerLesPolluer", already compulsory in automobile advertisements.
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Applications must also inform users of any traffic restrictions, such as Low Emission Zones (ZFE), which are expected to multiply in the coming years.
Multimodal applications will also have to display at the end of 2022 the "data relating to the cycle network, carpooling areas and parking" collected in the database of the transport.gouv.fr site, and at the end of 2023 all public transport and shared vehicles such as bicycles, scooters.
