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Accessible taxisACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012
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HORIZON, A SERVICE OF TAXIS
ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012
>01 WHO ARE WE ?
• Leader in the radio taxi business
• Strategy
>02 HORIZON
• 2003-2004 Origin of the project
• 2005-2010 Failures and success
• 2011 A Larger fleet
• 2012 And After
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01WHO ARE WE ?TAXIS G7, first on quality of service
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LEADER IN THE TAXI BUSINESS
ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012
>7500 TAXIS AFFILIATED IN ILE DE FRANCE
> 75% of radio taxi orders
> Over a total of 18 000 parisian taxis
>10 000 TAXIS IN EUROPE
> 16 millions of trips in 2011
>NETWORKING
> Providing taxis to our clients in more than 150 cities in Europe
We are a service provider, our mission is to connect our clients with the closest available taxi.
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STRATEGY
ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012
>INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
We work in real time
>A LARGE RANGE OF SERVICES AND FLEET
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02HORIZONAccessible taxis for all
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> 2003 : Only 3 taxis were accessible.
>Our responsibility is to provide taxis for allWe helped the volunteers drivers to equip their vehicule
>France was working on a law to enforce equity
>The law was published on february 11th 2005.However it never concerned private transportation such as
taxis
2003-2004 ORIGIN OF THE PROJECT
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2004-2010 FAILURES AND SUCCESS
>We set two systems of accessibles taxis
>We made a special training
>We invested 500 000€ to equip the vehicules
> It was a period of experimentations
>We had to provide more availability.
ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012
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2011 A LARGER FLEET
>We invested an extra 500 000€ in one year50 taxis with access ramp at the end of 2011.
>We decided to rely on the other fleets :900 station-wagon type vehicules with low floors
5000 low floor vehicules
>We started a communication plan:Disabled people
Senior citizens
>We found new market opportunities :Accessible tourism
Medical taxis
Home to work daily taxis
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2012 AND AFTER
>We receIved a trophy from the french accessibility minister’s delegation :
>The parisian taxi authority involvment100 accessible taxi licences are already given
>Horizon’s fleet is growing fast100 accessibles taxis at the beginning of 2013
150 accessibles taxis at the beginning of 2014
> 2005 law enforcement from January 1st 2015Public transportation accessibility / Buildings accessibility /
Job access equity
>The ageing of the population :Increase of needs for accessible door to door transportation
ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012
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