Two metro lines are fully automated and driverless: line 1 (since 2012) and line 14 (since its opening in 1998). The Métro has 16 lines with 225.1 km (139.9 mi) of track and 304 stations. 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.RATP's services in the Greater Paris area include: 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. In Paris, RATP operates, under its own name, on behalf of and under contract with Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), the Paris region transit authority.
RATP started testing EasyMile EZ10 shuttles on regular roads (with an employee on board) in January 2021, taking passengers to Bois de Vincennes on weekends. Two years later, in 2013, RATP purchased the nearby long-established coach company, Selwyns Travel, a National Express operator. 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. McDonald operated Fort Worth Transportation Authority (now Trinity Metro) in Texas, Votran in Florida, and Waco Transit System in Texas, among others. In 2009, RATP entered the United States by purchasing transit contractor McDonald Transit Associates. This had a considerable impact on RATP's international profile. 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. 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. 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. By the time the STCRP was merged into the RATP, all of its streetcars had been replaced by bus routes.
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. 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.Įarlier, 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 company describes itself as the fourth-largest actor in public transport. In 2019, the Group's consolidated revenue was €5.704 billion it employs 64,000 people. RATP Dev, the Group's international operations and maintenance subsidiary, is present in 13 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. While RATP's Paris-related activities are still a major part of its business, its operations have extended since 2002 to include business around the globe in various modes of urban and regional transportation. In the Île-de-France region, the RATP carries about 3.3 billion passengers per year. Today, the RATP is still responsible for most of the public transport in the Greater Paris area, including the Paris Métro, Île-de-France tram, and RATP bus network, as well as part of the regional express rail (RER) network. Its logo represents, in a stylised version, the Seine's meandering through the Paris area as the face of a person looking up.
Formed in 1949, it has its origins as the city's public transport operator. The RATP Group ( French: Groupe RATP), also known as the RATP or Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (English: Autonomous Parisian Transportation Administration), is a state-owned public transport operator and maintainer headquartered in Paris, France.