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The CDG Express will therefore not be welcoming the many foreign visitors expected for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Nor will business travellers, who are impatiently awaiting this new link between the capital and its airport... Élisabeth Borne, the French Transport Minister, made it official on 29 May: the project has been postponed until the end of the year...

They're everywhere... Airlines, hotels, business travel agencies: no area of business travel seems to be spared the power of chatbots. Since 14 January, these conversational robots have also been on board public transport in the Paris region. The aim of this Chatbot Transilien is to embody a...

Simplifying users' lives with the help of new technologies: that's the objective set by participants at the Transports Publics 2018 exhibition, with a particular focus on the dematerialisation of transport tickets. Whether cardboard or plastic rectangles, the traditional "pass" seems destined to disappear. And yet, while the transition to electronic...

The Navigo pass is changing to simplify urban travel in the Ile-de-France region: according to the JDD, "from mid-April, holders of a Navigo card will have access to Autolib', available in 90 communes in the region". An agreement to this effect has apparently been reached between the two main players involved - Autolib' Métropole and the Syndicat des transports d'Île-de-France...

Making it easier to get around What changes will the people of Ile-de-France be able to benefit from in the coming years? Élisabeth Borne - While the Paris network is now one of the best meshed in the world, there is still a real need for infrastructure as soon as you move away from the conurbation. The future Grand Paris Express, with 200 km of...

While airports in major business destinations - including Paris - have been competing for several months to offer free or even unlimited wi-fi, the Tokyo authorities are getting in on the act by introducing an equivalent service on the metro. Since 1 December, business travellers and tourists from...

Line 1 of the Paris metro, as well as the majority of RER lines A and B, will be the first to benefit from the roll-out of 3G and 4G networks, following agreements between RATP, Bouygues, SFR and Orange. The incumbent operator expects that "by 2015, 170 stations on the network will be connected, offering a...

Here's a piece of news that should be of interest to more than one business traveller: on 26 June, the Paris metro will be moving into the era of connectivity, with the launch of a WiFi connection. Free of charge, but limited to metro stations, this connection should, according to La Tribune, be provided by the Spanish operator Gowex, which is still keeping a lid on the details...