FRANCE MOVES
Taking your children to school is sometimes a puzzle. In France Bouge , on Europe 1, three entrepreneurs propose innovative and ecological solutions. Their initiatives: a connected badge that records every climb and descent of the school bus, a school bus service in "vélobus" and an application to allow "school busing on foot".
Gmini, a badge connected to record the climbs and descents of children
Sébastien Tremey, founder of the company Groupeer, who markets this badge : "It is a badge that replaces the transport card.The transport card allows validation once, when it is made.While this badge will allow to take into account all the children who get on and off the bus to make sure no children have been left on the bus.
The bus driver has a terminal, like a smartphone, on which runs a mobile application that will give him plenty of information, such as whether he is on time or late. And at the end of the service, the app will check that no child has remained on board, and if so, it will warn the driver and operator. Everything is produced in France, in Savoie, and we make work a help center for the work for assembly. Initially, the idea came from counting people very quickly and very simply. The first target was the ski instructors, to allow them to count their students. We worked on it and it was much more complicated than expected. We did four years of research and development to achieve a satisfactory result.
Today, we have a little trouble with communities, which are very reluctant to take the plunge. It is very long and it is our main issue. We are deploying on the Grand Avignon, or the Île de Ré. We have ongoing experiments with Saint-Etienne Métropole for the transport of handicapped children. It's like all validation systems, parents do not pay but it's the farmers and local authorities. "
S'Cool Bus, a school bus service by "vélobus"
Nicolas Catarino, co-leader of S'Cool Bus: "The inventor of this vehicle (the" vélobus ") is in the Netherlands and one of our friends saw this vehicle when he was on a training course. The objective is not just to transport, but also to use the bicycle as a teaching tool, to raise awareness of issues that are dear to us, including ecology.
This "vélobus" looks like a rosalie (a bike, usually with four wheels, which can accommodate several passengers, ed ), with all the necessary safety features for children. We have eight kids plus a cool'ducer, that's the name we gave the drivers. According to our surveys, 94% of children are motivated to go to school in S'cool bus, compared to 46% when they go by car. Our goal is to change the mindset about short modes of transport mainly. 86% of families who have used the S'Cool bus are changing their mode of travel towards greener and more inclusive modes of travel.
The Seine-Eure agglomeration has entrusted us with an experimental contract for two years, and since January we have ten operational vehicles in six municipalities. It's free for kids. The school being free, it made sense for us not to charge parents. We have a lot of requests, everywhere in France and in the world. Now we have a partnership with the inventor of the "vélobus" to manufacture bikes in France. "
PetitBus, an application for school busing "on foot"
Olivier Bertil, founder of PetitBus: "The project was born five years ago, on a reflection of mobility without carbon, on the smart city and ecological themes.We have seen that the practice of the bus was really marginal, it s' It is then said that it would be nice to create an application to allow people to easily interact and then to be able to organize together to accompany children to school or extra-curricular activities.
Initially, it is a problem of trust to help each other. The principle is that I create my own journey, and other parents can come graft. The application is free but it will change in the coming months. We first wanted to make a community grow. We have partnerships with local communities, but it's a long time working with them. The goal now is to make packs to associations or cities, so it's free for parents.
There is no particular constraint, especially material. But you have to be able to communicate with other parents, so you have kits with flyers and posters to put in the class notebooks. "