Route Planning
French Route Planner
The route planner provides detailed routing and also calculates
the time and amount it will cost you in fuel and toll fees to make the
journey.
The Official L'Autoroute Web Site
The official French motorway site enables you to easily work out the
costings for motorway routings across the whole of France. You'll also
find out detailed information on each of the motorway network operators.
Useful Websites
Paris Traffic Reports
Live traffic information for the main routes around Paris.
France.com Regional Information
Comprehensive site providing information on various regions and towns
worth visiting while driving through France.
The AA
Information on road break-down prices in France.
Bison Futé and Maps
There's an official national network of alternative (itinéraires
Bis) routes designed to take you around known regular trouble spots,
especially in the peak summer holiday season from mid-July to the end of
August. These are detailed in the annually produced
Bison Futé map, widely available free from petrol stations,
tourist offices and 59 special information centres throughout France. Named
after a cartoon character, whose name translates as 'Smart Bufffalo',
Bison Futé is packed with useful information. Whatever your
itinerary, be sure to carry up-to-date maps. Those published by Michelin are
widely available in the UK; for very detailed route planning, seek out
those of the Institut Géographique National (IGN), the French
government mapping agency. Click here
for the Bison Futé website.
Further Road Travel Information
All autoroutes have their own 24-hour information radio stations. In
northern France, on 107.7 FM there are English-language bulletins on
the hour and half-hour.
Motorway Information can be found by dialling (in France only) the
premium-rate phone number (0)8 36 68 10 77. Calls cost FF2.23/minute.
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