Promoting the mobility of inhabitants of the Transfrontier Catalan Space

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The catalan cross-border area, including Girona and the Département des Pyrénées-Orientales, forms a relevant geographical and historical area with a shared identity. However, this territory suffers from a real disadvantage which complicates cross-border exchanges : absence of cross-border sustainable collective road transportation. As part of the bilateral cooperation between Generalitat de Catalunya and Département des Pyrénées-Orientales established in 2006, as organizing authorities of transport services, they pointed out the need to improve the public transport services, as a key component to developp the cross- border exchanges. Thus, the partners prepared the ConnECT project, in accordance with their thematic agreement signed in 2014, responding more effectively to the mobility needs of the inhabitants of the cross-border area. ConnECT aims to develop the mobility on this territory by structuring a real sustainable public transport service, efficient, adapted, without any interruption of public service or constraints linked to the border. The main lines of work will responde to several key issues of the territory by optimizing the existing transport offer, providing easy access to information and additional cross-border connections to meet the needs of three targeted population groups.

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