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The very centralized configuration of the French airport system confers on Aéroports of Paris (ADP) an economic and strategic power considerable. Created in 1945 to conceive, arrange and exploit the whole of the aerodromes open to civil navigation in a radius of 50 km around the capital, the company knew to exploit a privileged geographical situation, in the heart of an economic and demographic basin particularly active, to rise in the forefront of the continental airports for the traffic of passengers and with the second for that of freight and the post office. With the turning of the 20th century, ADP accomodated thus nearly 70 annual passenger million and 1,3 million tons of freight. Its history is marked out achievements which, each one, marked their time. Chosen at the time of the interdepartmental council of January 13, 1964, the site of Roissy, located on three departments and six communes, becomes the seat of the Charles airport of Gaulle who was brought into service on March 9, 1974. The Preliminary draft of Key plan (APPM), which is a document of long-term planning in particular fixing the maximum extension of the site, was approved on 12 September 1969, then modified on December 24, 1970. It included/understood the creation of five tracks, including two doublets of tracks parallel and independent, one located at the north (track 1 and 3), the other located at the south (track 2 and 4), and both directed Est/Ouest. A fifth track, secondary, directed NORTH-SOUTH, were to supplement this device. Tracks 1 and 2 were put in service, respectively in 1974 and 1981, the tracks 2, 4 and the NORTH-SOUTH track, being reserved for the future. Since its opening, the airport Roissy-Charles of Gaulle knew considerable evolutions to manage to exceed the course of the 40 million annual passengers: after air terminal CDG 1, of a completely revolutionary architectural bet, CDG 2 played of another form of audacity, the modularity, in order to better accompany the growth by a progressive startup by the structures. To accomodate unceasingly more planes, it was decided to change the number of the tracks from two to four according to a single formula of "doublets" to Europe; many infrastructures with industrial, logistic and tertiary calling pushed on the 3200 hectares of the platform (one the third of the surface of intramural Paris), in particular of the roads (143 km) and the hotels (1700 rooms). Roissy-Charles of Gaulle also became the pioneer of the intermodality between the plane and the train while accomodating since 1994 a station TGV designed for 5 million travellers; the capacity of its zones of freight will reach soon two million annual tons... It is still CDG which will support the essence of the Parisian airport development in the next years. In 2003, the startup of the sixth and ultimate hall of CDG 2 (the "E") and the reopening of CDG 1 after complete restoration will carry to their maximum the capacities of reception of passengers on the site. From here at 2003-2004, the airport Roissy-Charles of Gaulle will reach the threshold of saturation corresponding to 55 million annual passengers!
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