Knowing how to find your way around the Mobility Orientation Law or LOM law

The Mobility Orientation Law (LOM law) replaces the LOTI law (Loi d'Orientation des Transports Intérieurs). Discover the LOM law, and the privileged place that the Demand-Responsive Transport can hold in it.

What the LOM law must solve: explanations

Announced as early as 2017, the LOM law saw the light of day in 2019, bearing 3 issues:

• Theisolation of rural areas, in favor of the creation of links between megacities that are increasingly congested;
• Excessive use of polluting vehicles (diesel or gasoline);
• Theenvironmental emergency, addressed by the Paris Climate Agreement, 5 years ago.

As a result, MPs have drafted 189 articles to deal with this.

What are the main objectives of the LOM law?

The LOM Act establishes five major objectives:

• Promote new forms of mobility such as carpooling, carsharing and Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT);
• Eliminate car dependency: by allowing local authorities to set up the mobility services of their choice, the white zones of mobility will be eliminated. Mobility for people with disabilities is also at the heart of the approach.
• Making a success of the ecological transition: this success will be achieved by banning the sale of carbon-based fossil fuel cars by 2040, and the deployment of electric vehicles and bicycles, but also by introducing a sustainable mobility package for employees.
• To ensure the proper functioning of the transportation sector, by facilitating access to the license, and by reinforcing road safety.
• Investing in transportation infrastructure, ensuring the maintenance and modernization of river, rail and road networks.

The LOM law and companies: Demand-Responsive Transport to serve the mobility plan of employees

An employee can use Demand-Responsive Transport to travel to work, in the same way as an individual, at the initiative of the local authority. The line can be fixed, and always run the same ride, at the same times. But it is also possible to use a route where only the stops reserved by passengers are served.

The Demand-Responsive Transport for employees can be set up at the initiative of the employer in the case where the community does not offer it, but also when the existing lines are not sufficient. The company will then set up a shuttle exclusively reserved for its employees, which will carry out the rides allowing them to go to work, or to return home. These solutions save transportation time, facilitate the rides of employees, and are particularly interesting to move between several sites of the same company.

The LOM law has completely overhauled the objectives of mobility, by integrating technological and societal evolutions. The Demand-Responsive Transport is perfectly in line with this approach, and contributes greatly to the improvement of daily transportation.