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50-589: Official studies of the Arc Express were launched by the president of Île-de-France region in December 2007. The project was superseded by the Grand Paris Express project. The projected schedule included the following steps over approximately ten years: In November 2006, the Île-de-France region submitted a draft master plan of the Île-de-France (SDRIF) that took into account the interests of

100-632: A considerable number of international operations. In 2009, RATP entered the United States by purchasing transit contractor McDonald Transit Associates. McDonald operated Fort Worth Transportation Authority (now Trinity Metro ) in Texas, Votran in Florida, and Waco Transit System in Texas, among others. On 1 August 2011, the RATP Group purchased Stagecoach Metrolink's contract to operate

150-621: A minority shareholding in that group, with its many worldwide transport operations. However, in 2009, the Caisse des dépôts et consignations , the majority owner of the Transdev, started negotiations with Veolia to merge Transdev with Veolia Transport . As part of the resulting agreement, made in May 2010, it was agreed that RATP would take over ownership of some of Transdev's operations in lieu of cash payment for its holdings in Transdev. This gave RATP

200-417: A month before the 2024 Summer Olympics . Line 14 was also extended south from Olympiades towards Orly Airport . The extension travels southeastward from Olympiades to Maison Blanche , interchanging with Line 7 's Villejuif branch, and opened on 24 June 2024 (again, just a month before the 2024 Summer Olympics). With both extensions complete, it is expected that Line 14 will eventually be merged into

250-959: A new brake lining that eliminates 70-90% of the health-damaging fine particles found on platforms. Similar tests are being carried out on some metro lines. The same year, RATP and Île-de-France Mobilités signed an accessibility charter to make it easier for blind and partially-sighted people to travel on Île-de-France's transport network. RATP Dev's presence in the United Kingdom is mainly concentrated in London with its portfolio of bus services on behalf of Transport for London . Through its three subsidiaries London United , Quality Line (acquired as Epsom Coaches in April 2012) and London Sovereign (acquired in April 2014), RATP Dev manages 1129 vehicles on 96 routes out of 10 garages, and has 3387 employees, as of 2020. Early 2021, RATP Dev announced that it

300-472: A new joint venture called RATP Dev Transit London , with RATP Dev holding 87.5% of shares and SeaLink 12.5%. The incorporation of the joint venture was finalised on 11 December 2021. Tower Transit's Lea Interchange garage, located in East London, was not part of the joint venture and remained unaffected until sold off separately to Stagecoach London . Outside of London, RATP Dev manages, since 2011,

350-534: A six-station, 5.4-kilometre (3.4 mi) eastern extension of Line 11, not considered part of the Grand Paris Express project, opened from Mairie des Lilas to Rosny-sous-Bois . The scheme was initially lobbied for by the local authorities of these suburbs, and was adopted during the 2007 review of the Île-de-France Transportation Plan. Work on the extension to Rosny – Bois-Perrier started in 2015 and opened on 13 June 2024. It provides connections with

400-512: A stylized version, the Seine 's meandering through the Paris area as the face of a person looking up. The company had described itself as the fourth-largest presence in public transport. RATP Group was established in 1949 with the express purpose of operating Paris' public transport system. During the twentieth century, it focused solely on the provision of the capital's various forms of transit, from

450-503: Is 2030, but might be pushed back. Should the second extension be built, Line 11 will eventually be fully automated. Automatic train operation was not implemented with the Rosny extension, although the RATP and STIF had considered the possibility of adding it later on. Line 11 was the first metro line converted to rubber-tyred pneumatic operation, and its first set of rubber-tyred rolling stock

500-557: Is a project consisting of new rapid transit lines and the extension of existing lines being built in the Île-de-France region of France. The project comprises four new lines for the Paris Métro , plus extensions of the existing Lines 11 and 14 . A total of 200 kilometres (120 mi) of new tracks and 68 new stations are to be added, serving a projected 2 million passengers a day. The new lines were originally indexed by colour (Red Line, Pink Line, Green Line, Blue Line), but this

550-407: Is not yet fixed, and it is not known whether it will be a full ring operated in its continuity or several overlapping arcs operated independently. In either case, the public debate took place from September 30, 2010 to January 31, 2011, work is to begin in 2013, and commissioning of the first arc is projected in 2019 and the second arc in 2025. Grand Paris Express The Grand Paris Express

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600-645: Is present in France as well as in 15 other countries, namely Algeria, Australia, Belgium, Egypt, Hong Kong, Italy, Morocco, the Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Wholly and partly owned operations include the following: In December 2022, RATP Dev launches hydrogen training center in La Roche-sur-Yon . In June 2024, RATP partnered with Wabtec to equip all its RER A trains with

650-635: Is to close its Quality Line subsidiary and Epsom depot. The closure was effective as of July 2021. On 16 June 2021, the firm announced it had placed an order for 195 electric buses for its London operations to be delivered jointly by Alexander Dennis and BYD Auto , the by then largest ever full battery electric bus order in the UK. On 22 September 2021, RATP Dev and SeaLink Travel Group (now Kelsian Group ) announced that their respective West London bus operations (including London United, London Sovereign and Tower Transit 's Westbourne Park garage) would merge into

700-591: The French Alps . Ridership of the cable car has increased by 50% since 2013, notably after the introduction of shuttle buses from Annemasse and Saint-Julien-en-Genevois . The contract of the RATP Dev-led consortium has been renewed in 2019 for 12 additional years, until 2031. RATP Dev established in 2018 a "regional office" in Singapore for Asia-Pacific albeit not having any operational activity in

750-742: The Metrolink light rail system in Greater Manchester , England until July 2017. Two years later, in 2013, RATP purchased the nearby long-established coach company, Selwyns Travel , a National Express operator. The current president and CEO of the RATP, Jean Castex , is in office since 28 November 2022. Hiba Farès is the Chairman of the Board of RATP Dev since January 2022. In Paris, RATP operates, under its own name, on behalf of and under contract with Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM),

800-533: The Paris Métro , Île-de-France tram , and the RATP bus network , as well as part of the regional express rail (RER) network. However, since 2002, RATP Group's operations have no longer been geographically restricted; it has competitively pursued contracts to operate transit systems around the world. It also had a partnership with, and a minority shareholding in, Transdev , which has further involved RATP Group in various global transport operations. During 2002, RATP Dev

850-483: The RER E and an eventual extension of Île-de-France tramway Line 1 , which better links central Paris with the commuter hub of Châtelet–Les Halles . A revised plan for the proposed Grand Paris Express subway system was unveiled on 6 March 2013, and calls for a second extension of Line 11 to be built towards Noisy–Champs , this second extension being considered part of the Grand Paris Express project. The target opening date

900-516: The Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare lines at Pont Cardinet , and the final one with the RER D at Saint-Denis–Pleyel . Construction on the extension began in 2014, with an aim of completion by 2019. Completion was later pushed back to 2020 after flooding from the water table stopped the tunnel works for a year. The COVID-19 pandemic then further delayed the opening to December 2020. The extension opened on 24 June 2024, just

950-683: The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design from Harvard University 's Graduate School of Design in 2023. RATP Group The RATP Group ( French : Groupe RATP ) is a French state-owned enterprise ( EPIC ) that operates public transport system primarily in Paris , France. Headquartered in Paris, it originally operated under the name Régie autonome des transports parisiens (English: Parisian Autonomous Transport Administration ). Its logo represents, in

1000-605: The "Régionéo" brand name for regional rail services in France which will gradually opened to competitive tendering. In February 2023, Sepulveda Transit Corridor Partners (STCP), one of the two private sector teams executing the project development agreement with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority for the future Sepulveda Transit Corridor , announced to have selected RATP Dev as its operations and maintenance partner. In October 2024, RATP Dev and

1050-548: The ARAF (French rail regulatory body) law came into effect. This law opens public transport operation to competition. The law was part of a broader push by the European Union to open all passenger transport operation to competition. Under this law, the RATP Group lost the exclusive right to operate all new public transport lines immediately. The company's exclusive operation rights for existing lines would expire over time, with

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1100-642: The Air Decker, a bus service operated by Bath Bus Company connecting Bristol Airport with Bath . RATP operates various transit systems in the United States under the name RATP Dev USA : RATP Dev operates hop-on hop-off tours using double-decker buses under the Tootbus brand in several cities: Since 2013, RATP Dev, in a consortium with TPG and Pomagalski , manages the Salève cable car , in

1150-446: The Arc Express could open in 2017. The precise route of the project was not determined but was to depend on the results of studies as well as the public debate. The September 2008 draft presents the general location of the route and provides the terminals for each of the four arcs. However, for a better return on infrastructure and to increase the modal shift from private cars to public transport, arcs originally envisaged (limited by

1200-513: The CNDP reviewed the STIF referral of 9 July 2009 to determine whether or not to organise a public debate. The CNDP will organize a "special public debate commission" in charge of the consultation. Following public consultation, the plots will be known and the project can be declared of public interest before a possible start of construction. Given the time required for each procedure, the first sections of

1250-568: The Capital Region, has expressed his opposition, casting doubt on the financing to be provided by the state. On April 29, 2009, French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed a metro network including 130 km of automated lines. An attempt to reconcile these two proposals is underway. On 8 July 2009, the STIF council unanimously approved the "record of objectives and main features" of the Project Arc Express. This vote starts

1300-543: The Paris region transit authority . RATP's services constitute, in their own right, a multi-mode public transportation infrastructure, but also contribute to a larger multi-mode system extending out into the surrounding Île-de-France communities. RATP's services in the Greater Paris area include: Paris bus route 341 was RATP's first line equipped with 100% electric full-size buses (starting June 2016). By early 2021, there were over 150 full battery electric buses in

1350-501: The RER A and B) could be extended. Thus, for example, the arc southeast could be extended westward to Issy-les-Moulineaux and the north-west arc east to Le Bourget. In addition, the current support of a large part of the political class, the "Grenelle laws", and the deterioration of transport on certain routes metro or RER, led financiers of the project to consider completing the orbital in one phase (2020) rather than prioritizing two arcs before

1400-513: The Rosny-sous-Bois workshop on Monday nights to be retired. Twenty new MP 14 -manual transit were deployed by summer 2023, with an additional nineteen new trains deployed in spring 2024 to serve the extension to Rosny–Bois-Perrier . The ceremonial final runs of the MP 59 took place on 23 May 2024, with #'s 6069, 6073 and 6087 being the final three to be withdrawn. [1] The automated Line 14

1450-464: The bus network going out to bid 15 years later in 2024, the tram network (Lines T1, T2 & T3) going out to bid 20 years later in 2029, and the Metro and RER lines out to bid 30 years later in 2039. With the RATP anticipating this shift to a competitive environment, the company began to reorganize itself. In the early years of the 21st century, a partnership with Transdev resulted in RATP acquiring

1500-763: The city's bus system. Prior to this, the CMP had absorbed the Nord-Sud Company in 1930 and the Ligne de Sceaux in 1937, which operated commuter rail to the suburbs. The STCRP had been created on 1 January 1921 by the merger of about half a dozen independent bus and streetcar operators in the Paris area. By the time the STCRP was merged into the RATP, all of its streetcars had been replaced by bus routes. A major change in French law came on 3 November 2009, when article 5 of

1550-477: The city-state. In December 2020, RATP Dev and SBS Transit announced a partnership for future rail projects in Singapore, without referencing specific commercial targets. RATP Dev and SBS Transit are expected to bid for operations and maintenance of the future Jurong Region MRT line and the future Cross Island MRT line . In September 2020, RATP Dev announces a partnership with Getlink to jointly bid under

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1600-629: The extension to Rosny-sous-Bois . The new trains are driver-operated as the MP 59 fleet was, but they are 5 cars long and have open gangways. An initial 20 trains were ordered in February 2018, with an additional 19 trains ordered in July 2021. Production began in late 2020, and testing in summer 2021. The first new MP 14 CC (manual transit) were deployed in June 2023, with four new trains entering service each Tuesday to replace four MP 59 transferred to

1650-399: The fleet with a target of 1,500 by 2025. RATP Dev (Dev being a contraction of Développement , French for development ), established in 2002 as a 100% subsidiary of the RATP Group, provides operations and maintenance of passenger transport services outside of the "historical" RATP network in the Greater Paris area although it also operates some specialised services within Paris. RATP Dev

1700-522: The line 15 project: The proposed rolling stock for line 15 is a new automated design, using conventional steel wheel on steel rail technology and overhead electrification, with a width of 2.80 metres (9 ft 2 in). Alstom has been chosen to build these trains. The names of the trains are the Alstom Metropolis MR3V/MR6V (MR6V (6-car variant for line 15) and MR3V (3-car variant for lines 16 and 17)). The specifications of

1750-442: The line acquired its current line 15 naming. Line 15 is planned to open in phases from 2025 through 2030. It will create a loop connecting Noisy–Champs to Champigny, passing through Champigny-sur-Marne , Créteil , Villejuif , La Défense , Saint-Denis and Rosny-sous-Bois . On 22 February 2018, a new timeline is announced by Prime minister Édouard Philippe : In 2013, the government led by Ayrault proposed this timeline for

1800-603: The line is the Alstom Metropolis MR3V (3-car variant) [2] Line 18 is planned to open in phases between 2026 and 2030. The proposed rolling stock for line 18 is the MRV (Matériel Roulant Voyageurs), a new automated design with a width of 2.45 metres (8 ft 0 in), using conventional steel wheel on steel rail technology and third rail electrification. Alstom has been chosen to build these trains. The Grand Paris Express development has received

1850-406: The other two. In March 2010, the STIF published a document to keep the public informed of the project. This paper highlights plots that may be more or less accurate depending on the area concerned. The two gray areas are between La Defense and Issy-les-Moulineaux on the one hand, and between Pantin / Bobigny and Fontenay-sous-Bois / Noisy-le-Grand on the other hand. The operating mode of the orbital

1900-472: The phase of public debate and consultation, through a referral to the National Commission on Public Debate (CNDP). The traffic studies conducted by STIF predict daily traffic for the whole Arc Express of about one million passengers. The costs of the line, including rolling stock necessary for commissioning and interconnection with existing stations is estimated to be between: In September 2009,

1950-496: The politicians and the population for an orbital metro ring through the inner suburbs. From 2006 to 2008, initial studies on the project identified a zone of territory in which the Arc Express could be built. The proposed SDRIF, adopted by the Regional Council on September 25, 2008, proposed to study the construction of four arcs: Rainbow Express was included in the proposed 2007-2013 CPER, finalized on March 23, 2007 by

2000-562: The proposed Grand Paris Express system. In February 2012 the STIF announced that with the two extensions planned, the brand new MP 14 class of rolling stock would replace the MP89 CA and MP 05 stock on Line 14 starting from 2020. This new stock is in eight-car train formations, longer than previously employed anywhere on the Paris Métro but which the length of all Line 14 stations was planned for. The previous MP 89 CA and MP 05 stock

2050-409: The regional chair and the regional prefect. On 5 December 2007, the project was officially launched by Jean-Paul Huchon, the president of the Île-de-France region and Pierre Mutz, the prefect of the region, through the launching of studies funded by the state and region for €4 million. These studies focused particularly focused on the two priority arcs: However, Christian Blanc, Secretary of State for

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2100-613: The suburbs, bypassing central Paris. The configuration of the line is very similar to that of the Arc Express , proposed by the RATP in 2006. It was later included in the red line project of the Grand Paris public transportation network, introduced by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2009. In March 2013, the "New Grand Paris" project was announced by the Prime Minister at the time, Jean-Marc Ayrault . At this time,

2150-423: The trains travelling line 15 and their operation are as follows: Line 16 is planned to open in between 2026 and 2028. Line 17 is planned to open in phases between 2026 and 2030. The proposed rolling stock for lines 16 and 17 is a new automated design with a width of 2.80 metres (9 ft 2 in), using conventional steel wheel on steel rail technology and overhead electrification. The rolling stocks for

2200-544: Was € 5.704 billion ; it employed 64,000 people at that time. In recent decades, the company has operated on an increasingly competitive basis as a result of legislative changes. The RATP was created on 1 January 1949 by combining the assets of the Compagnie du Chemin de fer Métropolitain de Paris (CMP), which operated the Paris Métro, and the Société des Transports en Commun de la Région Parisienne (STCRP), which operated

2250-581: Was changed in 2013 to continue the numbering convention that the RATP uses. They are therefore now known as Line 15 , Line 16 , Line 17 and Line 18 . The constructed lines are planned to open in stages, starting with the Line 14 extension in June 2024, until 2030. Since August 2013, the New Grand Paris steering committee has met quarterly. The first public inquiry, focused on the southern section of Line 15 from Pont de Sèvres to Noisy–Champs ,

2300-504: Was created as the Group's dedicated international operations and maintenance subsidiary; it is present in 16 countries across Africa , Asia , Australia , Europe and North America . RATP Group's Paris-related activities are still a major part of its business through to the present day; in 2019, it was recorded that, in the Île-de-France region, it carried roughly 3.3 billion passengers per year. In 2019, RATP Group's consolidated revenue

2350-587: Was extended north from Saint-Lazare to Mairie de Saint-Ouen , with the primary aim of reducing overcrowding on Line 13 . The adopted solution connects both branches of Line 13 to Line 14, with stations at Porte de Clichy on the Asnières – Gennevilliers branch and Mairie de Saint-Ouen on the Saint-Denis branch. An additional station connects with the Saint-Ouen RER C station, and another with

2400-481: Was held from October to mid-November 2013. Work on Line 15 began in 2015. Its first section between Pont de Sèvres Métro station and Noisy–Champs RER A station was scheduled at that time to open around 2020, but this has now been pushed back to 2025. This line was first proposed in the Orbival project, then integrated into the Arc Express . To ensure better commuter service to the inner northeastern suburbs,

2450-457: Was the MP 55 , which operated from October 1956 through January 1999. They were then replaced by refurbished MP 59 stock from Line 4. The MP 55 stock consisted of 4 carriages, as did the replacement MP 59 stock. One MP 73 of line 6 was in service on the 11 as well. Île-de-France Mobilités planned to replace the aging fleet of Line 11 with MP 14 series trains around the time of the opening of

2500-444: Was then reassigned to the newly automated line 4, alongside some 6-car MP 14s. They replaced its manually driven MP 89 CC rolling stock, which was refurbished before going to line 6 to replace the aging MP 73 rolling stock. Line 15 will be a high-capacity underground rail line, providing a new ring line around Paris in the departments of Hauts-de-Seine , Val-de-Marne and Seine-Saint-Denis . It will enable direct journeys between

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