Lyon Urban Truck&Bus urban public and commercial transport competitiveness cluster
The ambition of Lyon Urban Truck&Bus (LUTB) is to meet the challenges of the growing mobility needs of both people and goods in an urban environment.
Lyon Urban Truck&Bus was accredited as a competitiveness cluster by the CIADT (Interministerial Land Development Committee) on 12th July 2005. In the 2008 evaluation, it was judged largely to have met the objectives of the competitiveness cluster policy. In 2007, LUTB also took over control of the Rhône-Alpes Automotive Cluster, providing a link between LUTB and automotive competitiveness clusters.
Lyon Urban Truck&Bus actors
The founding members of Lyon Urban Truck&Bus are Renault Trucks, Irisbus France, the Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP), the Institut National pour la Recherche dans les Transports et leur Sécurité (INRETS), Greater Lyon and the CCI de Lyon.
As of 1st January 2008, Lyon Urban Truck&Bus has 69 members, including 45 companies with fewer than 500 employees, covering all industrial vehicle actors in the region: manufacturers, sub-contractors, research and training bodies (INSA, ECL, etc.) and end users.
The ambition of Lyon Urban Truck&Bus
Meeting the new challenges of the urban environment
The purpose of Lyon Urban Truck&Bus is to mobilise existing skills in the Rhône-Alpes region and to create new skills in order to: design, test, develop and export transport solutions that will allow the cities of tomorrow to manage the flow of goods and people more effectively and sustainably.
The objective of Lyon Urban Truck&Bus
To strengthen the urban area’s leadership in the fields of industrial vehicles and secure, integrated transport solutions.
Lyon Urban Truck&Bus is:
- a leading European and international point of reference for public and commercial transport systems in urban environments, from research to implementation.
- a provider of balanced and innovative social, economic and industrial solutions, which are proven and tested in a real-life context.
Lyon Urban Truck&Bus actions
5 collaborative R&D programmes
Industrial, research and institutional partners have come together to define five research and development programmes:
- motor and drive chain integrated
- safety and security
- architecture and comfort
- transport systems
- mobility management and modelling
3 key cross-disciplinary programmes
- provision of testing resources
- think tank and special science days
- Communication: Truck and Bus World Forum in Gothenburg in December 2008 and Lyon in May 2009, as part of the International Transport Week
Services for members
- industrial property rights: analysis, patent search, patent monitoring
- training: collaborative research programme
- European Commission monitoring and lobbying
- economic intelligence tools, sector surveillance, etc.
- secure, collaborative data exchange platform
- support for SME’s participating in European projects
Lyon Urban Truck&Bus and Greater Lyon
The Lyon urban community’s support policy for the Lyon Urban Truck&Bus competitiveness cluster is based around three main areas of intervention:
- management and communication support (€195,000 for 2006, 2007, 2008)
- R&D project support (€1,498,111 for 4 projects in the same period)
- a partner in new project design and experimentation (e.g. FIDEUS, GEODE, etc.).
Industrial vehicles in Rhône-Alpes
- The industrial vehicle sector employs 31,000 people in the Lyon region (and 76,000 in the Rhône-Alpes region)
- Renault Trucks, a major player in the road transport industry, is the largest private-sector employer in the Lyon region (5,200 people) and the Rhône-Alpes region (7,000)
- Irisbus is one of the leading public transport manufacturers in Europe, employing 2,392 people in the Rhône-Alpes region (Lyon and Annonay)
Related files
- Lyon Urban Truck&Bus : produits et services (PDF - 531 Ko)
- Lyon Urban Truck&Bus : programmes R&D (PDF - 668 Ko)
- Lyon Urban Truck&Bus : fiches des programmes collaboratifs de R&D (PDF - 555 Ko)
- Truck&Bus World Forum 2009 : livre blanc (version anglaise) (PDF - 78 Ko)
- Innovation : Grand Lyon, partenaire de l'innovation (l'avenir s'invente aussi ici) (PDF - 799 Ko)
Contacts
- Florent Chante
Urban community of Lyon - DGDEI
urban public and commercial transport sector director - Lyon Urban Truck&Bus
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