Nicolas Bardou is Technical Director of decarbonised mobility at VINCI Autoroutes, Delegated Managing Director at Easy Charge and Chairman of the PIARC - World Road Association Bridges Technical Committee.

VINCI Autoroutes finances, designs, builds and operates motorways in France.

With a network of 4,443 km managed by the concession companies ASF, Cofiroute, Escota, Arcour and Arcos, VINCI Autoroutes is among world’s leading motorway concession company.

The main mission of its 5,513 employees is to ensure, in all circumstances, the viability of the network and the continuity of the motorway public service, which are essential to the provision of services and to the economic and social activity of the regions served.

In the face of the climate emergency and the erosion of biodiversity, VINCI Autoroutes is committed to transforming the motorway into a low-carbon mobility infrastructure and to integrating it more fully into the natural environment.

VINCI Autoroutes’ network consists of 181 service areas and 266 rest areas. Commercial vehicles are of major importance. VINCI Autoroutes, together with other players in the sector and truck OEMs concluded a major study in March 2024 to envision the future of infrastructure to match with the anticipated growth of electric trucks.