About destineo
Who are we ?
Introduction
Destineo is a multimodal website giving information on public transport in the Pays de la Loire region. It now contains information about all the main networks in the region.
The "About Destineo" page aims to explain what the Destineo service offers and to introduce the people who have contributed towards it.
What services does Destineo offer?
Destineo is available on the Internet and on an iPhone application accessible on www.destineo.fr (i-Phone application launch in early 2011).
Access via interactive terminals will soon be available in certain stations.
A JOURNEY CALCULATOR
The site aims to make it easier to use public transport by offering better information. You can use the Destineo site to plan a journey from one address to another: it gives you all the schedules of the public transport networks, including transport on demand, and offers detailed maps and connections between the networks to help you complete your journey.
INFORMATION ON TRAFFIC CONDITIONS
If there’s a planned disruption to the networks (service diversion, works), the journey calculator will offer an itinerary that takes these changes into account. You’ll find all these events on the “Traffic conditions” page. You can also register with a network and receive direct information by e-mail of any disruptions on that network (see the “My account” page).
The site does not provide information in real time.
TIMETABLE SEARCHES
Using an address or stopping point, or simply entering the name of the commune, you can find stops nearby, the networks that serve it and the service times. You can also find out about the times between two stops.
A SOURCE OF INFORMATION ABOUT ALL TYPES OF TRANSPORT
Bikes, car-sharing, park-and-ride car park…, Destineo offers you a journey that takes these services into account to make your multimodal journeys easier. On the “Mobility Services” page you’ll find full information about transport in the region.
MAPS
Want to find the transport stops closest to your home? Search for a chemist’s? It couldn’t be easier with Destineo’s new interactive map function!
You’ll also find maps of the networks and interchanges on the “Maps” page.
AN AID TO FINDING HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS THAT MAY BE REACHED BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT
In partnership with the Regional SEM, Destineo also allows you to search for accommodation and restaurants in the region! And this useful information is automatically offered at the bottom of your journey search according to how close it is to your arrival and departure point.
Destineo and accessibility
Destineo is totally accessible to partially-sighted and blind users who have a braille keyboard or voice synthesis reader.
Destineo’s partners are also trying to gradually enter information about vehicle accessibility.
See the “Accessibility” page for further information.
Who does what?
The Pays de la Loire Regional Council is Destineo’s contracting client and has sought assistance in managing the contract (see the service providers below). The Regional Council coordinates the project, including partnership between local authorities, contracts with service providers, searching for finance and contacts.
The 17 partner local authorities and their operators are responsible for feeding information into the Destineo site database. This is required when timetables are changed or networks are reorganised (new stops, new service, name change, etc.). Some networks also send in information about one-off disruptions (works, accident, etc.).
The service provider provides his tools (FUSiO, NAViTiA), carries out technical developments to retrieve partner data and deals with website management (checks on data quality, contact with Internet users).
Destineo’s service providers
2010-2013
- Contract management assistance: EPC and MT3
- Website production: G-Nova
- Database management and provision of the journey calculator: Canal TP
- Checks on the accessibility of the site for the blind: pixFL
- Feeding information into the public buildings database: Pages Jaunes Marketing Service
2006-2009
- Contract management assistance: SETEC ITS
- Website production: Adeuza
- Database management and provision of the journey calculator: Effia
- Feeding information into the public buildings database
How Destineo is financed
The project cost 1.7 million euros between 2008 and 2009. It was financed by the partner local authorities (see the “Partners” page) and received subsidies from Europe and the Government (see the history below):
- Regional Council: 827,982
- Partners: 434,168
- Europe: 349,741
- Government: 129,400
Total: 1,741,291euros
The provisional budget for the period 2010-2013 is estimated at nearly 2 million euros.
History of Destineo
How the project started
When it embarked on the European ITISS project in late 2004, the Pays de la Loire Regional Council soon contacted the authorities responsible for organising transport in the region to ask them to become involved in the project. Destineo required a great deal of coordination between everyone involved (local authorities, operators, website producers) to define the need, design the site, collect all the data and coordinate its updating.
The first version of the Destineo site was brought into service in September 2006. At the end of the first contract, a new invitation to tender was launched in December 2009 to choose the new service providers who would be responsible for renewing, modernising and continuing to improve the site in 2010.
The Destineo website project is being developed by the Pays de la Loire Regional Council in partnership with 16 local authorities, the Loire-Atlantique Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Pays de la Loire Regional SEM.
The gradual integration of local authorities partners
The local authorities in the region gradually joined Destineo:
4 September 2006: When the site opened, there were 8 local authorities partnering the Pays de la Loire Regional Council: Maine-et-Loire Departmental Council, Metropolitan Nantes, Metropolitan Angers Loire, the Saint-Nazaire and Estuary Conurbation Community (LA CARENE), Saumur Loire Développement, the Choletais Conurbation Community, the La Roche-sur-Yon Town Council and the CCI as the airport manager.
The Regional SEM was also a partner, providing information on accommodation, restaurants and tourist activities.
25 June 2007: Loire-Atlantique Departmental Council joined the group (LILA network)
15 July 2008: Mayenne Departmental Council joined the group (Pégase network)
1st September 2008: Laval Conurbation joined the group (TUL)
1st December 2008: Sarthe Departmental Council joined the group (TIS).
September - October 2009: Vendée Departmental Council joined the group (Cap Vendée network and Compagnie Yeu Continent) along with Sablé-sur-Sarthe
January 2010: Metropolitan Le Mans (SETRAM network) and Fontenay-Le-Comte (TVF network) joined the group
September 2010: The Les Olonnes Commune Community (Tusco Network) joined the group
Support from Europe
Between 2004 and 2007, the Destineo project has been co-financed by the European Union as part of the ITISS project (Intermodal Travel Information Systems). ITISS fell under the INTERREG III B programme, which formed part of FEDER, a series of European Union policies for the regions. The aim of the project was to improve access to information. Further information on the ITISS project (official presentation of the project in English on the INTERREG IIIB North-West Europe programme website). (Create a link to http://3b.nweurope.eu/page/project.php?p=31&id=600 )
In January 2009, the Pays de la Loire Regional Council joined the European ICMA programme (create a link to http://www.icma-mobilife.eu/) which aims to facilitate mobility on all types of journeys and for all types of travellers. As a result of this partnership, Destineo will be offering new functionalities in the coming years.
Government participation
As the first journey calculator in a French region, Destineo was of considerable interest to the Government, which agreed to support the Regional Council from. PREDIM, a search and experimentation platform for the development of multimodal information (www.predim.org), followed the project closely. PREDIM misted all the sources of information on passenger transport in France and presented it in its portal PASSIM (Prototype directory of multimodal information sources and services: www.passim.info)
Today, the Government, the Regional Council and other French local authorities are working together on a project to set up a network of journey calculators. The idea is to enable users to carry out address-to-address searches anywhere in France. AFIMB, the French agency for multimodal information and ticket systems, is supporting the project.
