Do high-speed trains (TGVs) carry fewer passengers than the regional express trains (TER)?

There is no need to set long-distance mobility against daily mobility: they are complementary components of public transport and are part of the objective of mobility for all. High-speed rail travel has also become a daily occurrence for some users, for example between Bordeaux and Angoulême or Poitiers. At national level, long-distance journeys (over 80 km) account for 40% of the total volume in terms of passenger-kilometres. On the rail network, the proportion of journeys made by TGVs is around 60%: the distances travelled are much greater than on TERs.

In France as a whole, 99 billion passenger-kilometres (a unit of measurement that describes the total distance travelled by train passengers in a given period) are travelled by train per year, of which:

• 57 billion on high-speed lines
• 12 billion in the Île-de-France region (Transilien and regional express service (RER))
• 12 billion by TER.