France: at the forefront of innovation

It proved as such with the virtual driving school Autoroute Académie. Now it is doing so again with Wimoov. Sanef remains at the forefront of technological innovation to improve the mobility and road safety of people.

Wimoov is an internet platform that makes mobility easier and safer for French citizens. It collects information on all the possibilities of public transport and private mobility, offers road safety tips (including the videos produced for Autoroute Académie) and its main added value is of a social nature. More specifically, it considers workplace incorporation and more disadvantaged people. The platform offers solutions for carsharing, which are useful for professionals having to travel to work without their own car, or for people who have to travel and want to share their expenses with drivers on the same journey. Wimoov now has over 11,000 users. 

In 2018, Sanef also launched three sensitisation campaigns aimed at toll road users. The subject matters were safe distances between vehicles, the safety of Sanef personnel working on the road and good practice on the toll road. The messages were broadcast in press releases, radio adverts, social networks, LED panels and mass e-mails to Sanef subscribers.

The operator also held the Road Safety Forum on 5th July at Station F – French Tech, an incubator for technology startups, to give an image of modernity and of looking to the future. The results of the Behaviour Observatory were presented at the meeting and the phenomenon of drowsiness was discussed (cause of 27% of all accidents on toll roads in 2016). Optic 2000 and Renault presented the Prudensee connected glasses, which detect the symptoms of drowsiness in drivers and warn them to stop and rest. Abertis and UNICEF also had the chance to inform of their joint activities to an audience made up of journalists, road safety professionals, partners of Sanef and representatives of the French association of toll road operators.