'arm cuts fuel use by 5%
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EASURES designed to save argy in rail and road services erated by the Paris Transport thority — RATP — include ts in heating and lighting on a Metro as well as a new ucation programme for bus vers.
The modernisation of the bus et in the 15 years between 160 and 1975 is claimed to lye improved fuel consumpc from an average of 43.64 res/100km (6.5 mpg) to 7.8 lit/100km (7.47 mpg) :hough the marked upturn in issenger traffic since the introiction of "carte orange'' seam tickets has slightly ineased diesel consumption to average of 39.2 lit/100km .2mpg).
Special attention is paid to e training of new bus drivers
whose curriculum now includes a session on energy conservation. Many of the RATP driver training vehicles are already fitted with "consumption clocks" which indicate fuel used at any instant to encourage the most economic driving technique commensurate with traffic conditions.
Modernisation of the Versailles-Juvisy suburban railway and completion of the North-South RER rapid transit route between the Gare du Nord and Care de Lyon is anticipated to result in a saving of almost 250 million litres (55m gal) of fuel a year. This is estimated to be due to the attraction this greatly improved underground link will have to people now using cars and to the reduction in surface routes by Paris buses.