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he nature of today’s global economy highlights our
interdependence and the need for much better global
policies.
Inspiring Technovation is pleased to present its report on
transforming the city of Versailles into a hub for
sustainable development by renovating Versailles
Chantiers train station. Our strategy addresses the
relationship between eco-innovation, historical heritage,
entrepreneurship, economic, social progress and global
issues such as climate change.
Inspiring Technovation has helped generating innovative
solutions by analysing, diagnosing and developing
technology options for the benefit of Versailles city and
Versailles Chantiers train station. Their integration,
pathway and governance aspects for our project are also
discussed. We strongly believe that the solutions
presented are synonyms of success, sustainability and
economic growth.
The Versailles we propose will be ready for new local
and global challenges, with a long term commitment to
sustainability. We focused in four key areas to achieve
our vision towards 2050: mobility, sustainability and
utilities, customer experience and multi-pole
infrastructures.
With the publication of this report the reader has the
opportunity to look back at the Versailles of yesterday,
admire its progress, but at the same time to look forward
at what could be done better for the next 40 years.
In this report we also introduce new concepts such as the
circular economy and the idea that economy and ecology
are no longer seen as opposites. It is now recognised by
many authors that the markets of the future are green,
thus embracing eco-innovation and sustainability now
will assure a solid economical growth for the city of
Versailles while being recognised as one of the European
leaders on sustainability and Eco-innovation.
The main objective of this report is to inspire and to
illustrate fresh and innovative approaches to the
challenges that face the city of Versailles and the
Versailles Chantiers train station.
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Elodie Gonthier (Team leader)
Kevin Ramirez
Sandra Velasco
Krishna Chandran
Anna Aghvanyan
Sirin Hamsho
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he historical city of Versailles is located in the south
western suburbs of Paris; 17 km away from its centre.
This city attracts more than 6 million tourists every year
thanks to its rich historical heritage, with a magnificent
castle and gardens.
The Inspiring Technovation consultancy presents a
vision for a sustainable Versailles through this report and
a set of technological solutions that fulfil the vision of
transforming the city of Versailles into a hub for
sustainable development by renovating Versailles
Chantiers train station. The train station fails to meet the
needs of the customers in terms of mobility, ambiance,
both inside and outside.
The firm started the project with an extensive analysis
of the existing data (renovation plans, surveys,
presentations, etc.) of Versailles Chantiers and the city
of Versailles in order to build a first diagnosis. A
benchmarking study of technologies was undertaken and
the possible acceptability and economical feasibility
aspects were studied.
The core of the project was dedicated to the analysis
of different clusters included in our vision; we found
solutions for mobility issues, to improve customers’
satisfaction, and the creation of new infrastructures. As a
result, the profound analysis of these clusters led to the
identification and screening of different competitive
technologies that could be adapted overtime to meet the
changes of infrastructure, peoples habits and behaviour.
Through this report Inspiring Technovation depicts
how technologies and the integration of these
technologies in Versailles’ context can be a force in
transforming the Versailles station into a multimodal
transportation and eco-innovative centre for various
businesses and tourist activities. We believe that the
technologies proposed are clearly “market pullers”.
Our firm presents scenarios that clearly support our
vision towards Versailles in 2050, and illustrate the
possible futures, successes and failures.
A Foresight scenario which extrapolated current data
and trends in order to generate the most likely outcomes
is described. A scenario with a backcasting approach is
also presented. This approach starts by setting targets and
works backwards to define the solutions that are needed
in order to achieve such goals instead of looking at the
more likely scenarios. Furthermore, Inspiring
Technovation presents a mobility vision based on
multiple transportation solutions such as pods at a local
scale and tramways at a wider scale, for Versailles Grand
Parc. Landscape modifications are also proposed to
allow a multimodal mobility.
Versailles and Versailles Chantiers train station are
two potential world leaders in sustainability. Thanks to a
progressive and adaptative implementation of
technologies our vision can become true.
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Foreword 2
Executive summary 3
Table of content 4
List of table and figures 5
Introduction 7
Building the project 8
Defining the scope of the project 8
Scenarios and the backcasting method 8
Designing the Versailles of tomorrow 11
The context of Versailles Chantiers train station and Versailles city 11
Project implementation 18
Governance 38
Resiliency 38
Challenges of the project 43
Recommendations 44
List of references 46
Appendices I
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Historically, the increase of railways construction
started during the XIX century, as part of the
development of European States structural framework,
with a main purpose of reducing building costs, and in
terms of duration. But building railway stations was a
real generator of change as it had an impact on
infrastructures and the surrounding environment, often
generating conflicts with the city, partly because it was a
physical barrier due to the fact that a railway station and
its transportation duties are using a lot of space, therefore
impacting the organization of the territory (Conticelli &
Tondelli, 2011).
Indeed, the main objective by building railway and
expending the network was to develop the structure of
the European territory, while land and environment
impact were not an issue that were really questioned. But
now, the global issues have changed, so have the local
issues related to train stations. In fact, what was a
secondary issue or not even an issue has become the
priority, namely the environmental impact of our
activities. Achieving sustainability is the main concern
and an important objective is the reduction of GHG
emissions, particularly CO2 emissions. As transport is the
main source of CO2 emissions nowadays in France,
representing 32% of the total emissions, it is a priority to
promote a shift from individual to public transport.
Moreover, as we said, the railways station, soon after
their implementation, became issues because they were at
the same time representing physical barriers. As a
consequence, we can tackle these two issues, of
environmental impact and place of the train station within
the city, by opening the train station to its surroundings.
In this report, Inspiring Technovation proposes a set
of solutions that are innovative, especially because they
are integrative, as an answer to these issues in terms of
sustainability, taking into account the current situation of
Versailles Chantiers train station, at a local scale with its
functions and at a more important scale, with the context
of its integration to the city of Versailles, while always
dealing with global issues such as global warming and
resources scarcity that are also important to take into
consideration, especially with such projects written in a
long term vision.
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The work done over the last few months identifying,
assessing, estimating and studying the realities and issues
faced by the city of Versailles and the train station of
Versailles Chantiers has led our team to formulate the
following recommendations:
Global issues
For global issues such as climate change, global
warming, economical downturns and others that might
affect us a whole, there is a potential for a city like
Versailles to become a centre of innovation and a driver
of change, first at a national stage but with the potential
to become a role model at the European level.
Such transformation unfortunately does not come
from free; it first requires a clear motivation from the
local authorities to be an active player in generating
change, and second such motivation needs to be
accompanied by coherent and supportive legislation that
helps young entrepreneurs transform their ideas into
green businesses.
Another area that has to gain strength is the
cooperation between the state, the private sector and the
universities.
There are important opportunities to create synergies
that lead to innovation and new business models, such
interaction and cooperation between the private and
official sectors, are likely to promote the emergence of
solutions that address problems such as climate change
and global warming.
Integrating clean energy systems
The reality of transforming the Versailles train station
into a sustainable hub is such that individual and isolated
actions will not enable the rapid transition in a large scale
in the future. The energy infrastructure on which the
communities depend will therefore need to be adapted
and upgraded to meet the future energy demands. One of
the possible solutions is to develop and integrate clean
energy technologies needed to support demand.
The goals of integrating smart systems (water,
electricity, PV, transportation, gas, heat, EV charging)
through the use of information and communication
technologies (ICT) can promote increased sustainability,
reliability as well as social benefits such cost reduction,
better services and job creation.
Improve mobility
Special emphasis has been given to the mobility of
pedestrians at a local scale around the station. In order to
achieve improvements it is recommended to consider
developments to the main roads (Avenue) of Versailles,
allowing the pedestrians to freely circulate using bicycle
tracks and allowing for example the use of segways to
move comfortably through the city.
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Reducing carbon emissions by promoting car sharing and
increased parking spaces, for people using their cars to go
to the station and then taking a train to reach their final
destination.
Identifying and promoting best sharing practices in
Versailles and beyond, like bike parking lots, electric
bike renting.
Greater access to mass transportation systems such as
tramways, pods and clean buses from stations to promote
sustainable public transportation.
Access to information
Providing accurate, easily accessible information to
customers by implementing energy saving practices and
innovative technologies such as interactive information
kiosks and smart tickets could play a major role in
customer satisfaction across the station and the city.
Community concept through Multimodal exchange
Promote collaboration between firms and work
collectively in environmental issues and in eco-
innovation projects, also with other stakeholders, like
universities.
Attract businesses in environment and technology sector
through the creation of Eco business parks to make this
model as a sustainable conglomerate of buildings.
APPENDIX 1: Questionnaire for the survey to Versailles Chantiers customers and results
APPENDIX 2: Administrative organization of Versailles (city and agglomeration)
APPENDIX 3: The 5 train stations in Versailles city
APPENDIX 4 – Flow of workers in Versailles city
APPENDICE 5: Projects in the surroundings of Versailles
APPENDIX 6 : Technical sheets (28 pages)
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Solution : Changing road organization
Category : Mobility
Sub-category : Pedestrian’s mobility
Eco -innovation : organizational
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