CDGVAL
Sign in to saveCDGVAL is a free shuttle rail service at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG), using the VAL (English: automatic light vehicle) driverless, rubber-tyred people mover technology. The first line, which connects the three airport terminals, train stations, and parking lots, opened on 4 April 2007. The second line, which connects Terminal 2 to two satellite terminals, opened on 27 June 2007.
Key facts
- Rail line.name
- CDGVAL
- Rail line.color
- 7f7f7f
- Rail line.logo
- Paris logo orlyval jms.svg
- Rail line.logo_width
- 50px
- Rail line.image
- VAL 208 — CDGVAL.1.jpg
- Rail line.caption
- CDGVAL train near Parking PR station
- Rail line.stations
- 5 (1st line)3 (2nd line)
- Rail line.ridership2
- 10,000,000 journeys per year
- Rail line.open
- 2007(last extension in 2012)
- Rail line.stock
- VAL 208 NG / NG2
- Rail line.linelength_km
- 4.5
- Rail line.website
- French: www.cdgfacile.com
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Lines
- Line 1
- Line 2
- Connections
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
CDGVAL is a free shuttle rail service at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG), using the VAL (English: automatic light vehicle) driverless, rubber-tyred people mover technology. The first line, which connects the three airport terminals, train stations, and parking lots, opened on 4 April 2007. The second line, which connects Terminal 2 to two satellite terminals, opened on 27 June 2007.
Since 2015, the two lines have been operated by Transdev every day from 4:00 AM to 1:00 AM with bus services running during system closure. The 60 million annual passengers of the airport and its 85,000 employees generate an annual traffic of 10 million journeys on CDGVAL.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “CDGVAL” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.