Transport Law can be characterised by the opening-up to competition, and the expansion of, transport by coach. The powers of the sector-based regulator have recently been increased.
- Liberalisation of transport by coach
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- Following the FCA's Opinion No. 14-A-05 of 27 February 2014 on the competitive operation of regular inter-regional transport by coach market, the coach services sector is opening-up to competition. We can nevertheless regret the removal of the provisions regarding the opening-up to competition, by 2019, of the regional railway sector.
- Increasing the powers of the sector-based regulator
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- The French rail regulator (formerly ARAF) now includes road activities, and will now be known as ARAFER (Regulatory Authority for Rail and Road Activities). The regulation of toll prices charged by motorway concessions, and coach transport regulation, are now within the powers of the ARAFER (the attribution of these powers was initially envisaged in favour of the FCA, but this idea was abandoned).
- Access to data on public transportation
- Public transportation data is now accessible in open data: key data such as routes, schedules and fares must now be uploaded and accessible to the public in an open format.
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