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France at Infrastructure Funding Crossroads

Christophe Boutin ASFA (Association Professionnelle Autoroutes et Ouvrages à Péage)
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France is a large country at the heart of Europe, with a deep passion for equality—one that has shaped a political will to provide equal access to high-quality transportation infrastructure everywhere in the nation. From the 1960s through the 1990s, these ambitions came to life: an extensive tolled highway network took shape, and high-speed rail expanded capacity and services.

Today, however, these networks face growing challenges. As infrastructure ages, maintenance demands are mounting. Christophe Boutin, a board member of IBTTA and the executive director of French tolling association ASFA, looks ahead to some of the crucial questions to be debated at the IBTTA Global Tolling Summit in Lyon next month. 

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About Christophe Boutin ASFA (Association Professionnelle Autoroutes et Ouvrages à Péage)
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Christophe Boutin graduated as an engineer from Ecole Polytechnique and l’Ecole Nationale des Ponts-et-chaussées. He started his career as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He joined the highway sector in 2004, first at Société des Autoroutes Paris Normandie (SAPN), as director of construction and sustainable development and then in charge of the concession contracts at Sanef, part of Abertis groupe.

In 2011, he joined ASFA, the professional highway association in France, as deputy to the managing director before being appointed managing director in 2017. ASFA is the professional association gathering all 24 highway concessionaires and exploitation companies in France. ASFA is in charge of lobbying on behalf of its members, managing the Social Branch of highway workers and ensuring the contractual and technical interoperability of electronic tolling in France.

He served as President of ASECAP in 2020, the European Association of Operators of Toll Road Infrastructures, and is the international vice-president and member of the Board of IBTTA.
He serves as Chair of the EETS Facilitation Platform, a contact point to facilitate the development of electronic tolling in Europe, set-up under supervision of the European Commission.

Mr. Boutin started his career as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. He joined the highway sector in 2004, first at Société des Autoroutes Paris Normandie (SAPN), as director of construction and sustainable development and then in charge of the concession contracts at Sanef. He graduated as an engineer from Ecole Polytechnique and l’Ecole Nationale des Ponts-et-chaussées. 

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