Communauté d'agglomération Paris-Saclay

The Communauté d'agglomération Paris-Saclay (or CPS) is an administrative entity in the Essonne département, near Paris. The administrative center is Orsay. It was formed on 1 January 2016 by the merger of the former Communauté d'agglomération du Plateau de Saclay (CAPS) and the Communauté d'agglomération Europ'Essonne(E²).

Paris-Saclay
Communauté d'agglomération
Location within the Essonne department
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Essonne
No. of communes	27
Established	January 1, 2016
Seat	Orsay
Government
• President	Michel Bournat (LR)
Area
• Total	186 km^2 (72 sq mi)
Population  (2014)
• Total	297,993
• Density	1,602/km^2 (4,150/sq mi)
Website	paris-saclay.com

Geography

Location

The Communauté d'Agglomération Paris-Saclay is located at the north-west of the département of Essonne, on the plateau de Saclay. The altitude is between 47m (154') in Palaiseau and 172m (564') in Gif-sur-Yvette.

Communes

The Communauté d'Agglomération Paris-Saclay consists of the following communes:[1][2]

1. Ballainvilliers
2. Bures-sur-Yvette
3. Champlan
4. Chilly-Mazarin
5. Épinay-sur-Orge
6. Gif-sur-Yvette
7. Gometz-le-Châtel
8. Igny
9. Linas
10. Longjumeau
11. Marcoussis
12. Massy
13. Montlhéry
14. Nozay
15. Orsay
16. Palaiseau
17. Saclay
18. Saint-Aubin
19. Saulx-les-Chartreux
20. Les Ulis
21. Vauhallan
22. Verrières-le-Buisson
23. Villebon-sur-Yvette
24. La Ville-du-Bois
25. Villejust
26. Villiers-le-Bâcle
27. Wissous

History

• At first, the syndicat intercommunal du plateau de Saclay (SIPS) was founded in 1988.
• The 6 December 1991, it became the district du plateau de Saclay (DIPS).
• It became a Communauté de communes then, in 2002, a Communauté d'agglomération.
• Before, communes of Bièvres in Essonne, Buc, Châteaufort, Jouy-en-Josas and Les Loges-en-Josas in Yvelines was in the district.
• In 2004, Gometz-le-Châtel integrates the CAPS.
• In 2010, the CAPS adheres at the syndicat mixte Paris Métropole.[3]

Transportation

Mass transit

Passenger rail service is provided in the community by RATP and Transilien SNCF in several RER stations in the Paris-Saclay University campus :

• Orsay-Ville station, RER B;
• Massy-Palaiseau station, RER B & C;
• Jouy-en-Josas station (HEC Paris), RER C and future T12;
• Lozère - École Polytechnique station, RER B;

And more in the Paris-Saclay and Versailles research campus :

• Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines station, RER C and Transilien line N and line U;
• Versailles-Chantiers station, RER C and TER services.

Rail

The Paris-Saclay community has the LGV Atlantique high-speed rail line serving the Paris Massy TGV station.

Buses

Transports in the Paris-Saclay community is managed by Paris-Saclay Mobilités and provided by Transdev and Keolis.

Long-distance bus service is provided by BlaBlaBus and Flixbus at Massy-Palaiseau RER and SNCF TGV station.

References

1. BANATIC, Périmètre des EPCI à fiscalité propre. Accessed 2017-06-28.
2. INSEE
3. List of members of Paris Métropole in the official website of the organisation Archived 2010-11-11 at the Wayback Machine, 18 december 2010.

External links

• Official Website of the CAPS