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Accessible taxis. ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012. HORIZON, A SERVICE OF TAXIS. 01 WHO ARE WE ? Leader in the radio taxi business Strategy 02 HORIZON 2003-2004 Origin of the project 2005-2010 Failures and success
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Accessible taxis ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012
HORIZON, A SERVICE OF TAXIS • 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 Largerfleet • 2012 And After ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012
01WHO ARE WE ? TAXIS G7, first on quality of service ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012
LEADER IN THE TAXI BUSINESS We are a service provider, our mission is to connect our clients with the closest available taxi. • 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 ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012
STRATEGY • INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY • Wework in real time • A LARGE RANGE OF SERVICES AND FLEET ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012
02HORIZON Accessible taxis for all ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012
2003-2004 ORIGIN OF THE PROJECT • 2003 : Only 3 taxis were accessible. • Our responsibilityis to provide taxis for all • Wehelped the volunteers drivers to equiptheirvehicule • France wasworking on a law to enforceequity • The lawwaspublished on february 11th 2005. Howeveritneverconcernedprivate transportation suchas taxis ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012
2004-2010 FAILURES AND SUCCESS • We set twosystems of accessibles taxis • We made a special training • Weinvested500 000€ to equip the vehicules • It was a period of experimentations • Wehad to provide more availability. ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012
2011 A LARGER FLEET • Weinvested an extra 500 000€ in one year • 50 taxis withaccessrampat the end of 2011. • Wedecided to rely on the otherfleets : • 900 station-wagon type vehiculeswithlowfloors • 5000 lowfloorvehicules • Westarted a communication plan: • Disabled people • Senior citizens • Wefoundnew marketopportunities: • Accessible tourism • Medical taxis • Home to workdaily taxis ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012
2012 AND AFTER • WereceIved a trophyfrom the french accessibilityminister’sdelegation : • The parisian taxi authorityinvolvment • 100 accessible taxi licences are alreadygiven • Horizon’sfleetisgrowingfast • 100 accessibles taxis at the beginning of 2013 • 150 accessibles taxis at the beginning of 2014 • 2005 lawenforcementfromJanuary 1st 2015 • Public transportation accessibility / Buildings accessibility / • Job accessequity • 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
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012