World leader in underground metro rail lines, expert in urban density

Bannière métro automatique

RATP Dev draws on its historic expertise at the vanguard of automated metro lines in Paris and applies it to complex greenfield projects and the most extreme brownfield projects in cities around the world.

The metro is the backbone of the modern city. Underground metro rail lines enable mass transit quickly and reliably, right where demand is at its peak. By freeing up the city streets from traffic congestion, the metro gives space, time, and quality of life back to the city. Around the metro stations, the city becomes more densely packed, interconnected, and more accessible to all.



Automated metro lines are the new generation. More flexible, more responsive, more efficient... The automated metro adapts in real time to user needs. Automation improves regularity, optimizes costs, and makes the network more resilient. It is a key progress driver for cities that are ambitious, innovative, and striving for operational excellence.

Paris is not a guinea pig for experiments. It is a real-world proof of concept.

For over a century, the RATP Group has been designing, transforming, and operating a metro network that is among the most complex in the world: aging infrastructure, huge passenger numbers, constant urban constraints... Automating, extending, or modernizing century-old lines while maintaining service for millions of passengers has forged a unique culture of risk management, operational precision, and sustainable high performance; from upstream design to operation, from maintenance to continuous transformation.

With RATP Dev, what has been tried and tested in Paris is not simply copied and pasted elsewhere... Rather, it is adapted to the unique challenges of each city. RATP Dev assists city governments and organizing authorities with their most strategic metro projects—creating a whole new network, automating an aging network, modernizing a transit system that has grown overburdened, line extensions in constrained urban settings—by adapting methods honed and perfected in the real world, not a theoretical one.

Because all around the world, the promise is the same: transforming complexity into reliability, securing projects over the long term, and delivering transit systems that work as intended, every day, for the city and its inhabitants.

Experts insights: the modernization of an automated metro system

RATP Group key figures

29

metro lines

14

fully automated lines

670

million journeys annually on our fully automated metro lines

Fabien Gervois

At RATP Dev, we transform each metro project into a performance and attractiveness booster for the host city. Our greatest asset is the combination of RATP Group expertise honed over a century and an unrivaled capacity to adapt to local constraints.

Fabien Gervois

Automated Metro Director, RATP Dev

Our networks:

Discover our networks around the world:

Metro & automated metro

Tramway

Cable car

River & maritime shuttles

Lyon, France

Supporting the transformation of Lyon’s iconic network

Since January 2025, RATP Dev has operated several modes of transport on the TCL network in the Lyon metropolitan area: metro, tram, funicular, Rhônexpress and river shuttle.

Metro & automated metro

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Supporting Riyadh's transformation

RATP Dev is now one of the major players in the development of Riyadh's 100% automated metro network, through Capital Metro Company (CAMCO), its 80%-owned subsidiary.

Metro & automated metro

Tramway

Doha, Qatar

A multimodal network to support Doha's development

Through the RKH Qitarat joint venture, RATP Dev co-operates Doha's metro and tram network, a world reference for its reliability and high technicality.