ILE-DE-FRANCE Transport Authority (Stif) and Paris Transport Authority (RATP) have placed a €127m contract with Alstom for 14 MP05 rubber-tyred metro trains for Line 14, a fully-automated line which is being extended 5.8km north from St Lazare to Marie de Saint-Ouen.

CASABLANCA transport authority Casa Transport has awarded the contract to operate and maintain the city's first light rail line to a consortium of RATP Dev, Caisse de Dépôt et Gestion du Maroc, and Transinvest.

THE project to automate Paris Metro Line 1 reached an important milestone on July 7 with the launch of full Unattended Train Operation (UTO) at weekends.

PARIS Transport Authority (RATP) has placed a €1bn order with Alstom and Bombardier for an additional 70 MI09 double-deck emus for RER Line A. Alstom is responsible for two thirds of contact and Bombardier the remaining one third.

PARIS Transport Authority subsidiary RATP Dev has formed a joint venture with Algiers Metro (EMA) and Algiers Public Transport (ETUSA) to operate and maintain light rail lines in Algerian cities.

MR PIERRE Mongin, chairman and CEO of Paris Transport Authority (RATP), inaugurated the commissioning of the first automatic driverless trains for Line 1 of the Paris metro on November 3.