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The Montpellier Metropolitan Regional Express Services project -SERM- is certified
The Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion confirms that the Montpellier project of Metropolitan Regional Express Services (SERM) is certified. Montpellier is one of the first fifteen SERM projects certified, which notably includes an express between Lodève, Montpellier and Sète.
Montpellier in the right wagon
Montpellier is in the right boat: the State has just unveiled the first fifteen certified Metropolitan Regional Express Services (SERM) projects, and that of Montpellier is one of them. A SERM in the provinces will be the equivalent of an RER.
Labeling, first step of the process
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The labeling marks the first step in the SERM implementation procedure. The Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion relied on the files provided by the communities to select the labeled projects. These files present the general ambition, the local actors mobilized, the scope concerned and the major strategic orientations.
The next steps
The Montpellier project has therefore successfully passed the first stage. Other SERM projects are currently being examined for the cities of Avignon, Marseille, Nice, Orléans, Toulon, as well as the Basco-Landais, Côte d’Opale and Franco-Suisse projects. They may be subject to labelling during a second wave.
Metropolitan regional express networks by 2040
The development of metropolitan regional express networks (RER) in large cities was relaunched by the Head of State in November 2022. The government confirmed this project in February 2023, with the presentation of a rail development plan equipped with of 100 billion euros by 2040. The law aims to evolve the missions of the Société du Grand Paris to allow the establishment of future metropolitan RERs, the SERMs.
