FIELDS OF ACTIVITY
Railway
LILLE, 2ND RAILWAY HUB IN FRANCE
Passenger traffic
- Lille Flandres is France's leading train station for regional traffic
- The Lille Europe station handles 8,000 passengers per day, i.e. 5 million per year (Eurostar and Thalys trains stop in Lille on their way to London and Brussels)
- The TER (regional railway network) totals 100,000 trips per day
Freight
A major place for exchanges and international flows of goods :
- 2nd in France for transported tonnage
- 2nd national rank as regards sales
- 120 train stations open to freight
Lille holds the world record for the length of automatic subway system
(45 km of VAL, a fully automatic and driver-less system)
- Lille Flandres is France's leading train station for regional traffic
- The Lille Europe station handles 8,000 passengers per day, i.e. 5 million per year (Eurostar and Thalys trains stop in Lille on their way to London and Brussels)
- The TER (regional railway network) totals 100,000 trips per day
Freight
A major place for exchanges and international flows of goods :
- 2nd in France for transported tonnage
- 2nd national rank as regards sales
- 120 train stations open to freight
Lille holds the world record for the length of automatic subway system
(45 km of VAL, a fully automatic and driver-less system)
THEY HAVE CHOSEN LILLE METROPOLE
- Companies specializing in railway subcontracting (EIMM, DESCAMPS, SIEMENS TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, ALTEN, NEU INTERNATIONAL, GROUPE MÄDER, STL STAUBLI…)
- R&D institutions (ESTAS, LEOST, INRETS…), …), universities and top-ranking schools (ENSAM, ICAM, USTL, ESC Lille…)
- The European Railway Agency (ERA) has chosen Lille and Valenciennes to establish its head office
THE NORD-PAS DE CALAIS REGION, ONE OF THE MAIN CLUSTERS OF THE FRENCH RAILWAY INDUSTRY
- 1st railway region in France
- 10 000 jobs
- 40 % of France's railway manufacturing activities
- 18 % of European sales for intercity and urban rolling stock manufacturing comes from the Lille area
- Presence of 3 global manufacturers : ALSTOM, BOMBARDIER, SIEMENS
I-TRANS, A WORLD-SCALE CLUSTER, THE ONLY ONE OF ITS KIND IN FRANCE
I-Trans regroups Northern France's major stakeholders in the field of research and industrialization of railroad and innovative transport, amongst which Alstom, Bombardier, CEF (Railway Test Center), GRRT, ICAM, INRETS, SNCF.
www.i-trans.org
