Azienda per i Trasporti Autoferrotranviari del Comune di Roma
| ATAC Azienda per i Trasporti Autoferrotranviari del Comune di Roma |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Rome |
| Web presence | www.atac.roma.it |
| Reference year | 2012 |
| owner | City of Rome |
| legal form | SpA (public limited company under Italian law) |
| Seat | Via Prenestina, 45 00176 Roma |
| founding | 1909 |
| Board | Armando Brandolese |
| Managing directors | Marco Rettighieri |
| Employee | 11,882 |
| sales | 864.87 million euros |
| Lines | |
| railroad | 3 |
| Subway | 3 |
| tram | 6th |
| trolleybus | 5 |
| bus | 263 |
| statistics | |
| Passengers | 1,266 million |
The Azienda per i Trasporti Autoferrotranviari del Comune di Roma or ATAC SpA (also Atac and atac written, in German: "bus, train and tram transport company of Rome") is a transport company for public transport in the Italian capital Rome . Local transport is carried out in the metropolitan area of Rome and in some municipalities in the province of Viterbo using underground trains , suburban trains, trams , trolleybuses and buses . The company is owned by the City of Rome.
ATAC has a debt of 1.4 billion euros. 40 percent of the buses are defective. In January 2018, it was decided to purchase 600 new buses.
overview
ATAC operates the three metro lines of the Metropolitana di Roma , the three suburban lines Roma - Lido , Roma Laziali - Giardinetti and Roma Flaminio - Viterbo , the Rome tram , the Rome trolleybus and around 300 urban bus routes.
The S-Bahn -like FL lines , on the other hand, are operated by Trenitalia , while the regional bus services are mainly operated by COTRAL .
The tickets are valid for all ATAC means of transport as well as for the FL trains and the COTRAL buses. A distinction is made between the city of Rome (Metrebus Roma) and the Lazio region (Metrebus Lazio) . In the Metrebus Roma area, there are tickets with a validity of 100 minutes (Biglietto Integrato a Tempo - BIT) , 24 hours (Roma 24h) , 48 hours (Roma 48h) , 72 hours (Roma 72h) and seven days (Carta Integrata Settimanale - CIS) as well as monthly and annual subscriptions. In the Metrebus Lazio area , day tickets (Biglietto Integrato Regionale Giornaliero - BIRG) , three-day tickets (Biglietto Turistico Regionale - BTR) and weekly tickets (Carta Integrata Regionale Settimanale - CIRS) as well as monthly and annual subscriptions are offered, whereby in this case (Metrebus Lazio) area zone tariffs there (as of early 2016).
history
Local public transport in Rome was operated by private companies from 1845. The company Società Romana Tramways Omnibus (SRTO) received its first public contract for this from the city of Rome in 1876 . The first trams were horse-drawn trams or steam trams . In 1895 the first electric tram opened between Piazza San Silvestro and Roma Termini station . In 1900 the monopoly SRTO operated ten bus routes and 15 tram routes, eleven of which were electrified.
In 1909, at the suggestion of Mayor Ernesto Nathan, the municipal Azienda Tramvie Municipali (ATM) was founded, which began operations in 1911 and gradually took over the SRTO from 1919 to 1929. In 1927 the urban transport company was renamed Azienda Tramvie e Autobus del Governatorato (ATAG). At that time the tram network of Rome had reached its greatest extent. In 1930 the tram lines in the city center were replaced by buses due to increasing car traffic. The first trolleybus routes started operating in 1937 . On August 9, 1944, the ATAG was renamed Azienda Tramvie e Autobus del Comune (ATAC) and by 1948 war-related damage and other restrictions had been removed. In the 1950s, the tram was largely abandoned in favor of trolleybuses. The latter were in turn replaced by buses until 1972.
In 2000 the ATAC handed over the operation of the bus routes to the city-controlled company Trambus and to other companies. However, the ATAC remained the owner of vehicles, with trolleybuses running again from 2005 , and the associated infrastructure. In addition, planning and monitoring tasks remained, which is why it was transformed into the Agenzia per la Mobilità del Comune di Roma (“Transport Agency of the City of Rome”) in 2006 . At the same time, the municipal company Metropolitana di Roma SpA (Met.Ro.) was founded to operate the underground and suburban railways . These railways were previously operated by the COTRAL consortium .
On January 1, 2010, the agency and the companies Met.Ro. and Trambus the limited company Azienda per i Trasporti Autoferrotranviari del Comune di Roma (ATAC). Today it handles almost all public transport in Rome.
After Marco Rettighieri took over the position of managing director in February 2016, numerous irregularities within the company became known. So Rettighieri found that of the 1980 ATAC vehicles that were on paper, only 1410 actually existed. The public prosecutor's office started an investigation.
The PD politician and Italian Senator Stefano Esposito said in this context that ATAC “was and is the safe of politics. From all. No one excepted. "
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Footnotes
- ↑ FAZ.net March 14, 2018 / Matthias Rüb : Rome declares war on potholes
- ↑ see also repubblica.it, June 16, 2016: Atac, scandalo infinito. "So è diventata il bancomat dei politici e dei sindacalisti"
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Schlamp: Römische Verkehrsbetriebe: The most dilapidated company in Europe. Spiegel Online, accessed June 22, 2016 .