Skip to main content

French, Tunisian transport companies sign cooperation agreement

French public transport company Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP) and Tunisian public transport operator Transtu have signed a five-year cooperation and partnership agreement that will help foster exchanges between the two companies to improve their respective networks and enhance efficiency. Cooperation between the two companies will address various transport-related activities including operations, maintenance, safety, security, passenger information and ticketing and employee training. Th
September 8, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
French public transport company Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (4223 RATP) and Tunisian public transport operator Transtu have signed a five-year cooperation and partnership agreement that will help foster exchanges between the two companies to improve their respective networks and enhance efficiency.

Cooperation between the two companies will address various transport-related activities including operations, maintenance, safety, security, passenger information and ticketing and employee training. The agreement includes exchanges of information and best practice, joint studies and meeting and technical inspections.

RATP will also deliver some 300 decommissioned buses to Tunisia, including 123 for the Transtu network, under the terms of an agreement with the Tunisian transport ministry. These buses, equipped with particle filters close to the Euro 3 standard, are all intended to improve uptime performance by the fleet of buses in operation and are a temporary measure pending the arrival of new buses.

“Transtu and RATP have an established partnership. The two companies signed an initial memorandum of cooperation in 2001, resulting in multiple training actions and exchanges of experience. The new agreement is a continuation of this positive drive”, commented Salah Belaid, chairman and chief executive officer of Transtu.

Elisabeth Borne emphasised that “the new cooperation agreement ensures a long-term outlook for a longstanding relationship between our companies, as exchanges between RATP and Transtu began in the 1990s*. The sale of 123 buses intended for the Tunis network is another tangible expression of our partnership with Transtu”.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Managed lane operators: meet the CAV pioneers
    June 26, 2018
    There is some controversy over the testing of connected and autonomous vehicles – but Robert Deans of Transurban North America explains how managed lanes could be vital in the development of CAVs, benefiting everyone. Managed lane operators have the opportunity to establish themselves as leaders in the testing and roll-out of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), assisting and accelerating the transition of CAVs onto road networks to deliver economic and safety benefits. Managed lane facilities
  • Serco extends transport contracts in Hong Kong
    June 7, 2013
    UK group Serco has won the contract to operate and maintain toll roads in Hong Kong as it looks to push further into the transport sector. Beginning in September, the contract is worth US$123 million over a minimum six-year base period to manage, operate and maintain the Tsing Sha Control Area of toll roads. Serco has been contracted to engage in toll collection, controlling and regulating traffic, vehicle recovery and rescue, patrols and handling of incidents. The contract also covers scheduled works inclu
  • Dutch strike public/private balance to introduce C-ITS services
    November 15, 2017
    Connected-ITS applications are due to appear on a nation-wide scale this summer, through the Netherlands’ Talking Traffic Partnership – if all goes to plan. Jon Masters reports. The Netherlands’ Talking Traffic Partnership (TTP) looks almost too good to be true: an artificial market set up and supported by national, regional and local government to accelerate deployment of Connected ITS (C-ITS) applications. If it does have any serious flaws, these are going to become apparent quite soon, because the first
  • Travel data critical to traffic management, traveller information
    January 31, 2012
    The ability to bundle together travel data from several discrete sources and fuse it to give a more comprehensive overview of events to stakeholders is the key aim of Viajeo, which is conducting trials in several cities around the world. Here, Ertico's Yanying Li writes about the project in more detail