Since January 1st, 2018, and for a six-year contractual term, RATP Dev has been operating and maintaining the Lorient Intercity Bus Station and the IziLo public transit network of the Lorient Metropolitan Area through its subsidiary RD Lorient Agglomération. Since January 1st, 2022, it has also been responsible for managing bicycle shelters throughout the greater urban area.
On 7 December 2017, Qatar Rail, the Qatari national public transport operator, awarded RKH Qitarat — the joint venture based on a consortium between RATP Dev and Keolis (49%) and the Qatari company Hamad Group (51%) — the operations and maintenance contract for the new automated metro of Doha, the capital of Qatar with more than two million residents, and a light rail network in Lusail. Lusail is located 15km from Doha’s city centre and is currently being built and, once completed, is expected to house 240,000 residents.
Organized for the first time ever in Europe, and hosted by the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona from 12 to 16 November, this year’s edition shed light on the role of transportation in smart cities. It gave RATP Dev the opportunity to showcase its expertise and RATP Group’s energy-saving initiatives in metro systems: installing LED lighting in the Paris network; using trains to help reduce CO2 emissions; and promoting the benefits of innovation in the field of environmental technology.
In 2014, alongside Ile-de-France Mobilités, RATP committed to a major technological and ecological evolution with the aim of having a 100% ecological bus fleet by 2025: this is the Bus2025 plan. This is in line with the 20% reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions included in the Ile-de-France Urban Travel Plan.
With Bus2025, RATP will profoundly transform its industrial tool (bus centers) and completely renew its fleet. A transition that has already begun with the first acquisitions of electric buses and massive acquisitions of hybrids.
London transport authority, TfL, has awarded £500,000 funding (approx. €565,000) to develop new ideas from transport operators across London in order to reduce the number of people seriously injured or killed on London's bus network.
HelvéCie originated from the merger of long-established local coach operators, and has since become one of the leading coach companies in French-speaking Switzerland.
Our business activities include the following:
A burgeoning year
Seven additional cities joined EXTRAPOLITAN in 2017 after Hong Kong, Nice and Marseilles in 2016. In July, Touristry AB, a major player in the Scandinavian travel industry operating under the brand Red Buses, joined Extrapolitan with the cities of Berlin, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Riga and Tallinn. Last October, Athens became our first partner from southern Europe with Sights of Athens.
Boosting innovation
Sizanani means “let’s help each other” in Sotho. For the last ten years the charity has been supporting students from under-privileged backgrounds in the Alexandra township in Johannesburg, close to the Gautrain line, the high-speed regional train service operated by RATP Dev subsidiary BOC.
Each year, the International Economic Forum of the Americas brings together personalities from political and business worlds to think about major economic issues and develop strategic partnerships between Canadian and international actors.
At the eleventh version of the forum in Toronto, RATP Dev presented its vision of transport infrastructures in an increasingly interconnected world.
Extrapolitan alliance member Open Tour Paris has teamed up with the manufacturer UNVI to design the first 100%-electric, double-decker, open-topped bus. As a first for the market, the 12-metre vehicle can carry up to 75 passengers. Its range of 150 km per day means it can make up to 250 stops to enable passengers to hop on and off as they please. The entire Open Tour Paris fleet, comprising 40 vehicles, will be converted to electricity by 2024.