RATP Group

The RATP Group (French: Groupe RATP), best known as the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (English: Autonomous Parisian Transportation Administration), is a state-owned public transport operator and maintainer headquartered in Paris, France. Formed in 1949, it has its origins as the city's public transport operator. Its logo represents, in a stylised version, the Seine's meandering through the Paris area as the face of a person looking up.

RATP Group
State-owned company
IndustryPublic transport
PredecessorCompagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris, Société des transports en commun de la région parisienne 
FoundedJanuary 1, 1949 (1949-01-01) in Paris, France
Headquarters
54, Quai de la Rapée
75012 Paris
,
France
Area served
Worldwide, with significant Île-de-France involvement
Key people
Catherine Guillouard (CEO)
Revenue€5.56 billion (2015)
Number of employees
Over 63,000 (2018)
ParentGovernment of France
SubsidiariesRATP Capital Innovation
RATP Connect (ex-Telcité)
RATP Coopération (ex-RATP i)
RATP Dev
RATP Habitat (ex-Logis-Transports)
RATP Real Estate (ex-SEDP)
RATP Smart Systems (ex-Ixxi)
RATP Travel Retail (ex-Promométro)
Websiteratp.fr/en

Today, the RATP is still responsible for most of the public transport in the Parisian region, including the Paris Métro, Île-de-France tram and RATP Bus Network, as well as part of the Réseau Express Régional (RER) network. In the Île-de-France region, the RATP carries about 3.389 billion passengers per year. The RATP's Paris operations are still a major part of its business, but its operations have now extended to include businesses around the globe. They include involvement in the operation of bus, tram, rapid transit and inter-city rail services in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. The RATP Group is currently the world's fifth largest operator in the public transport sector.

History
RATP headquarters in Paris

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 the city's bus system.

Earlier, the CMP had absorbed the Société du Chemin de Fer Électrique Nord-Sud de Paris in 1930 and the Ligne de Sceaux in 1937, which extended 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.

In the early years of the 21st century, a partnership with the Transdev group resulted in RATP acquiring 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 group, started negotiations with Veolia Environnement to merge Transdev with Veolia Transport. As part of the resulting agreement, made in May 2010, it was agreed that the RATP Group would take over ownership of some of Transdev's operations in lieu of cash payment for its holdings in Transdev. This had a considerable impact on RATP's international profile.[1][2][3]

In 2009, RATP entered the United States by purchasing transit contractor McDonald Transit Associates.[4] 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 the Metrolink light rail system in Greater Manchester, England until July 2017.[5] Two years later, in 2013 RATP purchased the nearby long-established coach company, Selwyns Travel, a National Express operator.

Presidents
Main article: List of Presidents of the RATP

The last CEOs of the RATP were Anne-Marie Idrac, Pierre Mongin and Élisabeth Borne. The current president of the RATP, Catherine Guillouard, was nominated on 2 August 2017.[6]

Operations in Paris
Two MP 05 train sets of Paris Métro Line 1 at Bastille station.
RATP tram on tramway line T3a at Porte de Versailles.
RATP bus near the Gare du Nord.

In Paris, RATP operates, under its own name, on behalf of the Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), 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:

  • The Paris Métro, a system of mostly underground rapid transit lines which run throughout the city, with some lines extending somewhat beyond the city boundaries. The Métro has 16 lines with 219 km (136 mi) of track and 302 stations.[7][8] Two metro lines are fully automated and driverless: line 1 (since 2012) and line 14 (since its opening in 1998).
  • Orlyval, the automated metro shuttle connecting Antony station (RER B) and Orly Airport.[9]
  • Parts of the RER, the Paris regional express rail network that runs mostly underground in the centre of Paris and overground in the rest of the region. RATP owns and operates line A (except the Nanterre-Préfecture - Cergy-le-Haut and Nanterre-Préfecture - Poissy branches) and line B (except the part north of Gare du Nord), both together representing approximately 115 km (71 mi) and 66 stations. The rest of the RER network is operated by SNCF.
  • Eight out of ten lines of the Paris tram system (T1, T2, T3a, T3b, T5, T6, T7, T8) totalizing 101.9 km (63.3 mi) and 183 stops.[10]
  • The extensive Paris city bus system (351 lines with a total length of 3,861 km (2,399 mi)), including the night buses of the Noctilien network.
  • Two BRT lines: the Trans-Val-de-Marne (TVM, 19.7 km (12.2 mi)) and line 393 (11.7 km (7.3 mi)).
  • The Montmartre funicular.

Paris bus route 341 was RATP's first line equipped with 100% electric full-size buses (starting June 2016).[11]

Operations outside Paris

RATP Dev (Dev being a contraction of Développement, French for development[12]), a 100% subsidiary of the RATP Group created in 2002, 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 is present in 14 countries, namely Algeria, China, France, India, Italy, Morocco, the Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Wholly and partly owned operations include the following:[13][14][15]

Operations in France

International operations

Heavy rail
A Gautrain Bombardier Electrostar unit in South Africa.

Metro and tramway
A Hong Kong tram.

Bus and coach
UK
A London United Scania OmniCity.
USA

RATP operates various transportation systems in the United States under the name RATP Dev USA:

Other countries
  • Autolinee Toscane, a coach operator in Tuscany, Italy[62]
  • Cilia Italia, Lazio, Italy[63]
  • Riyadh (since 2014 set-up of the capital's future urban bus network with approximately 1,000 vehicles over three depots, and operations and maintenance for a duration of 10 years starting 2016, 20% share of a consortium with SAPTCO)[64][65][66]

Other

Former operations

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