ILE-DE-FRANCE Transport Authority (Stif) has approved a proposal by Paris Transport Authority (RATP) to automate Metro Line 4, following the successful introduction of driverless operation on Line 1 in December 2012.
THE first light rail line was officially opened on July 4 in Constantine, Algeria's third largest city with a population of around 900,000. Commercial services were due to begin on July 5.
A CONSORTIUM led by Brazilian companies CCR Group and Invepar has been selected as the preferred bidder for a PPP contract to design, build, operate, and maintain the 28km light rail network in Porto Maravilha, Rio de Janeiro.
A CONSORTIUM of RATP Dev and Transdev has secured a three-year contract to operate the 60km light rail network in the Chinese city of Shenyang, which is due to open on July 1.
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PARIS Transport Authority (RATP) opened the French capital's 303rd metro station on March 23 with the inauguration of the €185.3m southern extension of Line 4 to Mairie de Montrouge.
PARIS Transport Authority (RATP) has awarded a contract worth around €11m to Soitec and a consortium of Philips and French partner Step to install LED lighting at stations across the city's metro and RER networks.
ALSTOM handed over the first of 19 Citadis low-floor LRVs for Paris light rail Line T7 to Mr Jean-Paul Huchon, chairman of Ile-de-France Transport Authority (Stif), in a ceremony at its La Rochelle plant on January 12.
PARIS celebrated the opening of its third light rail extension in a month on December 15 with the inauguration of a new 14.5km section of the orbital Line T3.
RATP Dev subsidiary RDMT has been awarded a contract to operate the Tucson's first streetcar line for three years with options to extend the agreement by up to eight years.