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VAL is a type of automatic rubber-tired people mover technology based on an invention by Professor Robert Gabillard (Université Lille Nord de France). It was designed in the early 1980s by French Matra for the then new metro system in Lille. The acronym was originally for Villeneuve d’Ascq à Lille (Villeneuve d’Ascq to Lille) the route of the first line to be projected (and inaugurated).
