Question 22174 — rail transport

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Mr. Alexis Corbière draws the attention of the Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition to the disengagement of the State in the control and supervision of the prices practiced by the SNCF. The train is one of the least polluting means of transport with approximately 10 times less CO2 emitted per kilometer traveled than cars and planes. In a context of ecological emergency, it therefore appears essential to encourage users to travel in train. However, the prices charged by the SNCF are clearly increasing on many lines. This does not encourage favoring the train over other modes of long-distance travel. This phenomenon is reinforced by the complexity of the offer and the yield management mechanism which provides that prices increase as seats on a journey are sold. Even today, the State sets a ceiling on ticket prices but this amount is too high to be really binding. It offers great latitude to the SNCF, which is free to set itself the number of places sold “at a low price” and the number of places sold at the highest price. Furthermore, many services have also seen their prices increase: modification or cancellation of tickets in particular. What should be a major public service committed to the ecological transition of modes of travel has become a private service offering, increasingly expensive for a quality of service that is not improving. Indeed, studies on train punctuality show that delays are increasing. This, added to the high cost of tickets, leads users to turn to alternatives, such as planes, buses or carpooling, which are slower, less comfortable and more polluting. So he asks her what her intentions to encourage train travel and encourage the SNCF company to guarantee access to rail for all.

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