Indigo’s ESG strategy: smart lighting, urban logistics and 11,400 charging points

Indigo Group, headquartered in Puteaux near Paris, complements its on-street and off-street parking business with sustainable mobility – cycling, electric vehicles and car sharing – and puts digital services and the customer at the heart of its strategy. The Group operates in more than 580 towns and cities in France and abroad.

Sébastien Fraisse, President of the Indigo Group Executive Board, has committed the Group to meeting or exceeding health, safety and environmental regulations, preventing risks to employees, promoting diversity and non-discrimination, and minimising its environmental impact – above all by reducing energy consumption in its car parks and helping customers access mobility that does not require fossil energy.

Decarbonisation in the car park

Indigo has been calculating its carbon footprint since 2018. Almost all car parks it operates use energy-saving LED lighting, combined with sensors so that car parks are only fully lit when a vehicle or pedestrian passes. Real-time monitoring of electricity consumption is in place in the most energy-intensive sites. Where the architecture allows, Indigo prioritises natural lighting and passive ventilation.

Supporting the switch to low-carbon mobility

  • 6,800 cycle parking spaces in more than 100 Cycloparks across Europe, plus rental schemes for electric and conventional bicycles
  • 11,400 EV charging points in Indigo car parks worldwide; more than 300 car parks in France are equipped, including fast chargers
  • A growing share of electric cars and two-wheelers in the service fleet

Urban logistics in Paris and Brussels

Together with Corsalis, Indigo has converted more than 2,000 m² of former parking space at the Pressoir de Bercy in Paris‘ 12th arrondissement into an urban logistics facility. Located 100 metres from the Bercy quays with direct access to the Boulevard Périphérique, it can supply more than 1.5 million residents and 5,500 retail outlets. “The Pressoir de Bercy is the first building block of an ambitious pilot project to develop over 20,000 m² of space for urban logistics across three multi-storey car parks in central Paris,” says Xavier Heulin, Deputy Managing Director of INDIGO Urban Shift.

In Brussels, Indigo Belgium works with Urbeez on bicycle logistics. Since 2020, the partnership has enabled 100 per cent electric urban deliveries from the Indigo Royal car park: goods are taken to Urbeez depots inside car parks and delivered by cargo bike or electric van.

Photo: © Indigo Group

This article first appeared in Parking Trend International, issue 3-2026, the magazine of the European Parking Association. Read the full issue online.

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