TER Franche-Comté

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TER Franche-Comté
Route network
Infrastructure
Route network kilometers:	782 km
- of which single track:	450 km
- of which electrified:	380 km
Railway stations / stops:	71
Passengers per year:	8 million
Number of lines:	17th
- of which bus connections:	7th
Key figures
Founding year:	1986
Annual budget in million euros:	104.2 million euros
Homepage SNCF Regional:	TER Franche-Comté
Homepage regional association:	franche-comte.fr

The TER Franche-Comte is a transport company that for the French region Franche-Comte the logistics of the local public transport (PT) provides. Like the other TER companies in France, it is co-financed by the regional government and operated by the state railway SNCF .

TER Franche-Comté operates its lines on an area of ​​16,200 km² and stops at 65 train stations. Each train station has to cover an area of ​​250 km² on average. The boundaries of the traffic area form the department Doubs (25) Jura (39) Haute-Saône (70) and the former for Alsace belonging Territoire de Belfort (90).

The regional administration considers the collaboration between the department and the SNCF, which began in September 2000, to be the very first in France. In fact, the first cooperation efforts had been successful in Alsace since 1998. In 2002, the agreement concluded between the regional government under the then President Jean-Francois Humbert and the SNCF finally came into force for a period of five years, stating that the SNCF would be responsible for regional rail transport for the department. On December 21, 2006 an extension to 2012 was decided.

Morteau am Doubs station , looking towards Neuchâtel ( Switzerland )

With the signing of the contract, the costs for the modernization of the rolling stock were fixed: It was already known at the beginning that 85 million euros had to be spent by 2009, of which, however, more than half was co-financed by the state. The measures included:

• Acquisition of nine “ Autorail à grande capacité ” (5 X 76500 and 4 Z 27500 ) for 33 million euros
• Modernization of several Z 11500 (Z 2) , “Rames réversibles régionales” (RRR) and Corail train units
• best possible upgrading of the stations and stops
• Improvement of the frequencies, particularly for school traffic (with the exception of the Besançon – Vesoul, Besançon – Pontarlier and Lons – Dole routes)

With the extension of the contract to cooperate some new trains were purchased, more AutoRail à grande capacité, and in 2008 two shuttle train Corail , these have been completely renovated from older rolling stock and equipped with air conditioning. By the end of 2009, 89 percent of the vehicle fleet from before 2002 should have been replaced or completely renovated.

In addition, with the help of the state, the stations have been modernized and a regular timetable has been introduced since December 2011, which ensures departure times are easy to remember.

Infrastructure

TER in winter

There are currently 840 km of railway lines in Franche-Comté, of which 770 km (92%) are served by regular service. 49% of the gross track systems are electrified (no line to the northwest of the main axis is electric), 42% are double-track. There are also 83  tunnels with a total length of 34 km, the longest of them on the border with Switzerland measures 6,000 meters ( Mont d'or ), of which 5,111 are in France.

According to the company, 94.5 percent of the trains are on time. An average of 15,000 people use the TER Franche-Comté every day. By far the most important train station is Besançon- Viotte, followed by Belfort , Montbéliard , Dole and Vesoul . The most important railway line in north-east-south-west traffic is the Dole – Besançon – Belfort railway line .

Since December 2011, the TER Franche-Comté trains have also been serving the new Besançon Franche-Comté TGV station .

Sources and web links

1. ↑ Numbers and facts on ter-sncf.com
2. ↑ Le réseau TER Franche-Comté on rff.fr, p. 3
3. ↑ http://www.franche-comte.fr/fr/politiques-regionales/transports.html Transport offensive of the region
4. ↑ http://www.franche-comte.fr/fr/le-conseil-regional/les-politiques-regionales/transports/ter-du-cote-construction/index.html "The beautiful trains in the beautiful stations"
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

• Study of development opportunities (PDF; 2.2 MB)
• Route overview in the region

Web links

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