Arcadis is designing the urban park developments in the Rives de Meurthe Nord district in Nancy, which will host the first Urbanloop line

Arcadis, an international engineering and consulting firm, is pleased to support SPL Nancy Sud Lorraine Aménagement, mandated by the Métropole du Grand Nancy, on the development project of the urban park in the Rives de Meurthe Nord district, which extends from Avenue du XXe Corps in Nancy to Boulevard Meurthe-Canal in Maxéville. Alongside Agence TER (urban planning and landscaping, the group's agent), Hekladonia (urban ecology) and Repérage Urbain (consultation), Arcadis will design the new face of this 160-hectare territory, marked by a rich industrial past and by the presence of water with the Marne-Rhine Canal and the Meurthe River, in order to make it an example of urban renewal, sustainable development and innovation.

This urban transformation project aims to revalue an old railway line and its adjoining spaces to offer local residents a new green lung (Saint-Georges Park), pedestrian and cycle routes, and an innovative and sustainable transport solution, designed by the company Urbanloop.

Arcadis' mission within the consortium will be to lead the complete project management of the Urbanloop line infrastructure, i.e. the platform, civil engineering, stations, maintenance premises and immediate developments. To do this, the Arcadis teams will partially recover the right-of-way of the existing railway line, which crosses the district from north to south, to install the autonomous transport system. The 3,2 kilometers that will accommodate the electric capsules, without battery or motor, controlled by Urbanloop's AI will be doubled by a cycle path and a pedestrian path, which will serve the economic and cultural points of interest in the district, such as the future judicial city. The main difficulty of the project will be to face the technical constraints linked to the implementation of autonomous transport, in particular in its integration into the park and at intersections, which will require in some cases the creation of underground passages. Arcadis will also design other related infrastructures in public spaces such as a new pedestrian bridge over the Marne-Rhine canal.

For Nicolas Douay, Regional Development Director at Arcadis : "We are proud to put our engineering at the service of urban planning, landscaping and also new forms of mobility, to offer the people of Greater Nancy a renewal of the district that gives pride of place to greenery and soft mobility."

The urban renovation project (estimated 30 million euros of work, including 11 million for the Urbanloop infrastructure alone) will be carried out in conjunction with the reconversion of Alstom wasteland into a courthouse and the development of BHNS lines. The district has already begun its transformation with the construction of new buildings adapted to climate change and for mixed uses.

For Noémie Bercoff, General Manager at Urbanloop:"After the Olympic Games demonstrator, the Grand Nancy project is the first long-term project for Urbanloop, which will have a positive impact on the daily lives of the people of Greater Nancy: our low-carbon transport system, with no waiting at stations and no stops at intermediate stations, firmly places the Greater Nancy Metropolis at the forefront of mobility innovations."

The courthouse should be delivered in mid-2028. As for the work related to the Urbanloop line infrastructure, it will start in 2026 with commissioning scheduled for early 2028.