The Communauté d'agglomération Paris-Saclay (or CPS) is an administrative entity in the Essonne département, near Paris. The administrative center is Orsay.CA Communauté Paris-Saclay (N° SIREN : 200056232), BANATIC, accessed 4 November 2024. 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). Its area is . Its population was 314,169 in 2018.
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:INSEE
Ballainvilliers Bures-sur-Yvette Champlan Chilly-Mazarin Épinay-sur-Orge Gif-sur-Yvette Gometz-le-Châtel Igny Linas Longjumeau Marcoussis Massy Montlhéry Nozay Orsay Palaiseau Saclay Saint-Aubin Saulx-les-Chartreux Les Ulis Vauhallan Verrières-le-Buisson Villebon-sur-Yvette La Ville-du-Bois Villejust Villiers-le-Bâcle 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.List of members of Paris Métropole in the official website of the organisation , 18 December 2010.
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 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
External links Official Website