5. Uses and practices

5.1 Night bus depot used as logistics center during the day

Imagine a bus depot (figure 9 ): at night, bus depots are needed to park hundreds of buses; during the day, they are empty. With this in mind, RATP launched a consultation to make the empty depot available for other uses during the day. Following the consultation, the depot was assigned to a logistics operator. During the day, the bus depot is used as a last-mile logistics delivery platform. Then, at night, the buses return to their locations. This develops several...