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Accessible taxis ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012

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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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Accessible taxisACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012

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HORIZON, A SERVICE OF TAXIS

ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012

>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 Larger fleet

• 2012 And After

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01WHO ARE WE ?TAXIS G7, first on quality of service

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LEADER IN THE TAXI BUSINESS

ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012

>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

We are a service provider, our mission is to connect our clients with the closest available taxi.

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STRATEGY

ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012

>INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGYWe work in real time

>A LARGE RANGE OF SERVICES AND FLEET

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02HORIZONAccessible taxis for all

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> 2003 : Only 3 taxis were accessible.

>Our responsibility is to provide taxis for allWe helped the volunteers drivers to equip their vehicule

>France was working on a law to enforce equity

>The law was published on february 11th 2005.However it never concerned private transportation such as

taxis

2003-2004 ORIGIN OF THE PROJECT

ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012

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2004-2010 FAILURES AND SUCCESS

>We set two systems of accessibles taxis

>We made a special training

>We invested 500 000€ to equip the vehicules

> It was a period of experimentations

>We had to provide more availability.

ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012

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2011 A LARGER FLEET

>We invested an extra 500 000€ in one year50 taxis with access ramp at the end of 2011.

>We decided to rely on the other fleets :900 station-wagon type vehicules with low floors5000 low floor vehicules

>We started a communication plan:Disabled peopleSenior citizens

>We found new market opportunities :Accessible tourismMedical taxisHome to work daily taxis

ACCESSIBLE TOURISM : AN INVESTMENT FOR EUROPE’S FUTURE, WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2012

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2012 AND AFTER

>We receIved a trophy from the french accessibility minister’s delegation :

>The parisian taxi authority involvment100 accessible taxi licences are already given

>Horizon’s fleet is growing fast100 accessibles taxis at the beginning of 2013150 accessibles taxis at the beginning of 2014

> 2005 law enforcement from January 1st 2015Public transportation accessibility / Buildings accessibility / Job access equity

>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

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