List of Paris bus routes

The bus network is an important pillar of public transport in Paris . Together with the Métro , the trams and some special lines such as the Funiculaire de Montmartre, it is subordinate to the French state-owned company RATP ( Régie autonome des transports Parisiens ), which is responsible for public transport in the French capital.

History of bus transport in Paris

Omnibuses have been on the road in Paris since 1828; at first they were pulled by horse and carts. In 1855 the newly founded company Compagnie Générale des Omnibus (CGO) received the order to operate a coherent bus system.

After the founding of the STCRP in 1921, which took over the previous companies for public transport in Paris and the suburbs, it also took over the bus network. The number of buses owned by the STCRP developed as follows:

1921: 941
1925: 1296
1930: 1942

The Syndicat des transports d'Île-de-France bus network

Bus network in the region

A 388 bus in the STIF-RATP livery

The Syndicat des transports d'Île-de-France (referred to as STIF for short) is superordinate to the RATP and coordinates public transport for the entire region of Île-de-France . In 2013 there were a total of 1,435 bus routes, with more than 9,000 buses in service, which covered more than 300 million km annually. Around 3.5 million bus users are on the road every day, around 42% of all public transport in the region.

As part of its 2013–2016 quality offensive, the range has been improved on more than 400 lines since the beginning of 2013. From November 2014 a further 39 lines will be included in the program.

The RATP bus network

In 2002, the Parisian buses carried 915.9 million passengers, which made up about 34% of the total passenger volume of 2,666.3 million (for comparison: Métro 1,283.3 million, 48%; the sections of the RER running in the Paris metropolitan area - Lines A and B 410.0 million, 15%; tram 52.2 million, 2%).

In 2010 the RATP bus network consisted of 353 lines with a total length of around 3900 km. More than 1 billion passengers were transported every year.

Towards environmentally friendly technology

All-electric buses

Since the end of May 2016, the RATP has been using the first fully electric bus with a standard length (12 m) in regular service. The RATP signed a contract with the Bolloré company for the delivery of solo buses from the Bluebus series. The buses should have a range of approx. 180 km without reloading. Another requirement is that the buses have the same capacity as diesel buses of the same length. A total of 23 buses of this type are to be delivered by the end of 2016, which will be used on the RATP line 341 Porte de Clignancourt - Saint-Ouen - Clichy - Place Charles de Gaulle / Étoile. This will be the first bus route on the Ile-de-France to be entirely powered by electric vehicles. The buses are serviced in the Belliard bus depot, because the RATP electric minibuses are also stationed there. An adaptation of the equipment for solo buses is possible without great effort.

In the course of 2015, the RATP concluded contracts with several providers of electric buses for the provision of vehicles for testing under normal conditions.

It is this

the Dutch bus manufacturer Ebusco
the Chinese provider Yutong, which is associated with Dietrich Carebus based in Alsace
the Polish company Solaris Bus & Coach
the Spanish manufacturer Irizar .

The designers must provide the RATP with all data collected during the operation at the RATP. The RATP wants to get an idea of the behavior of the buses during operation on the route and also in the maintenance hangars.

The Irizar is an Irizar i2e bus. It is a standard size bus, i.e. 12 m in length. With a charging time of 5 hours, the bus can cover 250 km - which roughly corresponds to the daily output of a city bus. The energy is stored in batteries and super capacitors . This helps to store the braking energy and to make it available to the vehicle again quickly when it starts.

The project is funded by the EU as part of the ZeEUS (Zero Emission Urban Bus System) project.

Bus lanes on the highways

In spring 2015, the right lane will be reserved for buses and taxis on two Ile-de-France motorway routes at rush hour in the morning. It concerns a 5 km long section of the Autoroute A1 and a 3 km long section of the A6a before the confluence with the Boulevard périphérique . These are highways that lead from Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport and Paris-Orly Airport to Paris, and which also use the Roissybus and Orlybus airport buses. The prohibition of use for other traffic is indicated by light panels. These regulations do not apply on weekends and public holidays.

On the A6a every morning during rush hour there are more than 30 regular buses and approx. 200 taxis to Paris every hour. The reservation is valid for the period between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.

The right lane is reserved on the A1 from 6:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. In addition, the right lane must be kept free on the boulevard périphérique at the junction with the A1 so that buses and taxis can quickly get onto the ring road.

Compliance with these regulations is to be monitored with video cameras. Unauthorized use of the bus lanes is punishable by 135 euros on the motorways and 35 euros on the boulevard périphérique.

By 2020, a total of 11 motorway sections in the Ile-de-France are to be equipped with bus lanes at a cost of 65 million euros. Depending on the equipment of the streets, the hard shoulder or the right-hand lane is released for buses.

"Normal" bus routes

The numbering scheme of the inner-city lines

The inner-city lines were assigned a two-digit number by the RATP, with the numbers 1 to 20 being reserved for the metro lines and the first and second digits indicating the location of the two end stations.

The first digit indicates an important place or bus node in the city center:

2x: The terminus is near the Opéra or at Gare St Lazare
3x: terminus near the Gare de l'Est
4x: terminus near the Gare du Nord
5x: Originally Place de la République, now more on the Rive Droite.
6x: less important parts of the Rive Droite
7x: Area between the Hôtel de Ville and the Louvre
8x: on the left bank of the Seine (Rive Gauche), but preferably in the area between Luxembourg and Gare d'Austerlitz.
9x: near Gare Montparnasse

The second digit indicates the location of the other terminus, which is mostly on the outskirts of the city:

x0: these lines cross Paris without having a terminus on the outskirts.
x1: this number has no specific meaning
x2: between Balard and Porte Maillot
x3: between Porte Maillot and Porte Champerret
x4: between Porte Champerret and Porte Montmartre
x5: between Porte Montmartre and Porte de Pantin
x6: between Porte de Pantin and Porte de Charenton
x7: between Porte de Charenton and Porte de Gentilly
x8: between Porte de Gentilly and Porte de Versailles
x9: between Porte de Versailles and Place Balard

Because of frequent changes in the layout, etc. a. Even with the expansion of the tram lines, the current numbering only partially corresponds to the original scheme.

Some examples:

According to the scheme, the buses with numbers 9x end near Gare Montparnasse.

In fact, the lines 91, 92, 94, 96 do this. The number 95 goes to Gare Montparnasse, the last stop is a little further out of town at Porte de Vanves. Line 93 ends at the Invalides Cathedral. The other two 9x numbers are the ring lines PC1 and PC3.

Of the bus routes that end on 2, lines 22, 32, 42, 52, 62, 72 end in the southwest between Pont du Garigliano, Parc de Saint Cloud and Porte d'Auteuil.

Lines 20 - 99 at a glance

Line 20: Gare Saint-Lazare ↔ Gare de Lyon
Line 21: Gare Saint-Lazare ↔ Stade Charléty
Line 22: Porte de Saint-Cloud ↔ Opéra ( Opera )
Line 24: Gare Saint-Lazare ↔ École Vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort
Line 26: Gare Saint-Lazare ↔ Nation
Line 27: Gare Saint-Lazare ↔ Porte d' Ivry - Claude Regaud
Line 28: Gare Saint-Lazare ↔ Porte d'Orléans
Line 29: Gare Saint-Lazare ↔ Porte de Montempoivre
Line 30: Trocadéro ↔ Gare de l'Est ( Ostbahnhof )
Line 31: Charles de Gaulle - Étoile ↔ Gare de l'Est ( Ostbahnhof )
Line 32: Porte d ' Auteuil ↔ Gare de l'Est ( Ostbahnhof )
Line 35: Gare de l'Est ( Ostbahnhof ) ↔ Mairie d'Aubervilliers
Line 38: Porte d'Orléans ↔ Gare du Nord ( North Station )
Line 39: Issy - Val de Seine ↔ Gare de l'Est ( Ostbahnhof )
Line 42: Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou ↔ Gare du Nord ( North Station )
Line 43: Neuilly - Bagatelle ↔ Gare du Nord ( Nordbahnhof )
Line 46: Gare du Nord ( North Station ) ↔ Saint-Mandé - Demi-Lune / Château de Vincennes ( Vincennes Castle )
Line 47: Gare de l'Est ( Ostbahnhof ) ↔ Fort du Kremlin-Bicêtre
Line 48: Palais Royal / Musée du Louvre ↔ Porte des Lilas
Line 52: Parc de Saint-Cloud ↔ Opéra ( Opera )
Line 53: Pont de Levallois ↔ Opéra ( Opera )
Line 54: Gabriel Péri - Asnières-Gennevilliers ↔ Porte d ' Aubervilliers
Line 56: Porte de Clignancourt ↔ Château de Vincennes ( Vincennes Castle )
Line 57: Arcueil - Laplace RER ↔ Porte de Bagnolet - Louis Ganne
Line 58: Vanves - Lycée Michelet ↔ Châtelet
Line 60: Porte de Montmartre ↔ Gambetta
Line 61: Gare d'Austerlitz ↔ Eglise de Pantin
Line 62: Porte de Saint-Cloud ↔ Bibliothèque François Mitterrand
Line 63: Porte de la Muette ↔ Gare de Lyon
Line 64: Place d'Italie ↔ Gambetta
Line 65: Gare de Lyon ↔ Porte de la Chapelle
Line 66: Clichy - Victor Hugo ↔ Opéra ( Opera )
Line 67: Pigalle ↔ Porte de Gentilly
Line 68: Place de Clichy ↔ Châtillon - Montrouge Métro
Line 69: Champ de Mars ( Marsfeld ) ↔ Gambetta
Line 70: Radio France ↔ Hôtel de Ville ( City Hall )

Irisbus articulated bus on line 95

Historic bus route H

Line 72: Parc de Saint-Cloud ↔ Hôtel de Ville ( town hall )
Line 73: La Défense ↔ Musée d'Orsay
Line 74: Clichy - Berges de Seine ↔ Hôtel de Ville ( town hall )
Line 75: Pont Neuf ↔ Porte de Pantin
Line 76: Louvre - Rivoli ↔ Bagnolet - Louise Michel
Line 80: Porte de Versailles ↔ Mairie du 18e / Jules Joffrin
Line 81: Porte de Saint-Ouen ↔ Châtelet
Line 82: Neuilly - Hôpital Américain ↔ Luxembourg
Line 83: Friedland - Haussmann ↔ Porte d ' Ivry - Claude Regaud
Line 84: Porte de Champerret ↔ Panthéon
Line 85: Mairie des Saint-Ouen ↔ Luxembourg
Line 86: Saint-Germain des Prés ↔ Saint-Mandé - Demi-Lune / Château de Vincennes ( Vincennes Castle )
Line 87: Champ de Mars ( Marsfeld ) ↔ Porte de Reuilly
Line 88: Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou ↔ Montsouris
Line 89: Gare de Vanves - Malakoff ↔ Bibliothèque François Mitterrand
Line 91: Montparnasse 2 - Gare TGV ↔ Place de la Bastille
Line 92: Porte de Champerret ↔ Gare Montparnasse ( Montparnasse train station )
Line 93: Suresnes - de Gaulle ↔ Invalides ( Invalides Cathedral )
Line 94: Levallois - Louison Bobet ↔ Gare Montparnasse ( Montparnasse train station )
Line 95: Porte de Vanves ↔ Porte de Montmartre
Line 96: Gare Montparnasse (Montparnasse train station ) ↔ Porte des Lilas / Le Pré Saint-Gervais - Jean Jaurès

"Special" bus routes

Ring lines PC

Line PC1 = Line 97: Porte de Champerret ↔ Pont du Garigliano / Boulevard Victor
Line PC3 = Line 99: Porte Maillot / Pershing ↔ Porte de la Villette

The ring lines run on the Boulevard of the Marshals, which surrounds Paris in a ring. In the southern area between Pont du Garigliano / Boulevard Victor and Porte d'Ivry, the PC2 was replaced by the new T3 (tram) in 2006. In the long term, the PC lines should be completely replaced by tram routes.

With the commissioning of the north-eastern extension of the tram line T3 (as line T3b), the line PC2 was shut down. Due to the western extension of the T3, the Porte d'Auteil ↔ Pont du Garigliano / Boulevard Victor section of the PC1 will also be omitted.

Minibus lines

Electric bus ZEUS from Traverse Brancion-Commerce

These are buses with up to 10 seats and standing room for almost 20 people, which can also cope with the narrow streets of the various districts. With one exception, the lines are managed by the RATP .

Montmartrobus = Line 08: Pigalle ↔ Mairie du 18e / Jules Joffrin
Traverse Charonne = Line 501 Gambetta ↔ Cours de Vincennes (round trip)
Traverse Bièvre-Montsouris = Line 513 Place de l'Abbé Georges Hénocque (round trip)
Traverse Batignolles-Bichat = Line 518 Hôpital Bichat (round trip)
Traverse Ney-Flandre = Line 519 Porte d'Aubervilliers - Oberle (round trip)
Traverse Brancion-Commerce : The line, on which 6 electric buses of the type ZEUS from the manufacturer Breda are used, has existed since October 2013. The route is on an 8 km long circuit with 28 stops in the 15th arrondissement. Passengers are connected to metro lines 8, 12 and 13, to trams T2 and T3a and to 8 other bus routes. The operator is BE green .

Special lines

Balabus = Line 07: La Défense ↔ Gare de Lyon (Tourist line that is only operated on Sunday afternoons from April to September)

Paris L'OpenTour: Tourist line with double-decker buses , as hop-on-hop-off trips

Orlybus = Line 283: Orly Sud ↔ Denfert-Rochereau

Roissybus = Line 352: Charles de Gaulle ↔ Opéra ( Opera )

A balabus (route name Bb) is on its way towards Gare de Lyon
A yellow double-decker bus from the Paris l'Open Tour
An Orlybus at the final stop Denfert-Rochereau
A RoissyBus bus at the Opéra stop

Lines 100 to 199

The lines operated by the RATP are mostly outside Paris. Only the lines 102, 109, 111, 132 and 169 also lead to the Paris city area.

Lines 200 to 299

Most of the lines operated by the RATP run outside Paris. Only the lines 216 and 283 (Orlybus) also lead to the Paris city area.

Lines 300 to 399

Most of the lines operated by the RATP run outside Paris. Only the lines 302, 325, 341, 350, 351 and Roissybus (352) also lead to the Paris city area.

Lines 400 to 499

There are only 11 lines in this number range. They run outside Paris and have been leased to private operators by RATP: Six lines are operated by Keolis and four by Transdev , while SEAT , a subsidiary of Transdev , operates on the eleventh line .

Lines 500 to 599

These are so-called urban lines (lignes urbaines), which the RATP operates in municipalities in the Paris region as city bus routes, with financial participation from these municipalities. Some lines have a name in addition to their number, others don't. The Parisian minibus lines are also lined up here.

Examples:

Line 501 : Traverse Charonne (Paris)
Line 513 : Traverse Bièvre Montsouris
Line 515 : Tillbus, runs in Les Lilas
Line 526 : Montbus, runs in Montrouge

Lines 600 to 699

The bus routes in the Seine-Saint-Denis department are provided with these numbers . At the beginning of 1983 the company Les Transports Rapides Automobiles (TRA) took over public bus transport. A little later, a contract was signed between this company, the département and the RATP, in which the three partners undertook to work together. From the end of February 1983, the bus routes were incorporated into the RATP route scheme. The collaboration with RATP ended on December 21, 2005. The TRA bus network is now operated by Veolia Transport .

Movables - lines with increased offer

It can be clearly seen from this bus that it is traveling on a movables line

Principles

In December 2000, as part of a collaboration v. a. with the STIF and the RATP on the transport development plan for the Île-de-France (PDUIF = Plan de déplacement urbain en Île-de-France) as its most important element, the movables project was launched . This became necessary due to legal regulations to improve the air quality in the metropolitan areas. The first measures were implemented in 2006.

While it was initially a matter of improving the traffic routes for important bus routes through structural changes, by improving the routing (e.g. bus lanes; handicapped-accessible stops) and traffic regulations (priority switching at intersections), the task of making the bus traffic on these lines soon followed to condense. On the one hand, the intervals between the individual journeys were reduced and, on the other hand, the operating times were extended. The main goal is to promote local public transport and thus reduce private transport.

The movables lines are clearly indicated in the timetables, on the vehicles and at the bus stops.

Operating times with clock frequency

The following requirements apply to the movables lines:

Paris and the Petite Couronne :

The lines are operated Monday through Saturday from 5:30 a.m. to 0:30 a.m. On Sundays, driving starts at 6:00 a.m. The buses run - depending on the time of day - every 10, 15 or 20 minutes.

Grand Couronne: The lines operate Monday through Saturday from 5:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. On Sundays, driving starts at 6:00 a.m. The buses run every hour, Monday to Friday during rush hour, i.e. H. from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. every half hour.

These are the minimum requirements for furniture lines. On routes with a high number of passengers, the timing is u. U. lower.

Development of the movables network

In 2007 there were 24 lines in the Paris city bus network that corresponded to the movables standard. In the Petite Couronnes , there were 12 radial lines (running in the direction of Paris) and around 15 tangential lines (running between the municipalities outside Paris) on which the bus service was expanded in the course of this year. In the Grande Couronne , around 25 lines benefited from an improvement in service.

In the meantime (as of 2014) around 140 lines are designated as movables lines. More than half of them are operated by the RATP, the rest by entrepreneurs from the OPTILE association.

Bus route number 100

The label on the hard strip indicates the extended operating hours

In order to improve the transport offer, especially in the Grande Couronne, several new lines were created to connect important local transport hubs (east RER stations with bus stations). To emphasize their importance, several lines were given the number 100. On these lines, 16 or 24 outward journeys and the same number of return journeys are offered daily.

Yerres - Orly - Rungis Airport ; since May 2009 to Montgeron ; extended to Yerres in April 2012; with a total of 20 stops in 9 municipalities;

Chelles - Clichy / Montfermeil - Roissy CDG ; since November 2009; 29 km long; 26 stops and crosses 6 municipalities;

Torcy - Créteil ; since January 2010; There are only 6 stops on the 24 km long route; the 41 km long route has 13 stops and serves five municipalities;

Les Mureaux - Plaisir-Grignon - Montigny-le-Bretonneux ; since September 2010; does not run on Sundays;

Persan - Roissy CDG; since September 2010; 10 stops on a 40 km long route in six municipalities; runs until 10:20 p.m. and also on Sundays. This line is of particular interest to employees at CDG Airport and the adjacent industrial parks.

Metrobus routes in the Île-de-France

Map of the bus routes with their own lanes in the Ile-de-France (planning status approx. 2011)

During the planning for the new tram in the Île-de-France, it turned out that these are not a panacea for overcrowded bus routes: tram routes are very expensive and the number of passengers is often insufficient to justify such a route. Therefore, especially in the départements outside of Paris, the company used express bus routes with larger vehicles on their own lanes. Just one year after the commissioning of line 1 of the Paris tram , the Trans-Val-de-Marne, the Île-de-France's first express bus line, began its service.

Today four lines are in operation. Five more are only in the planning phase.

Line overview

line	Route	opening	Length in km	Remarks
RATP bus 393	Thiais (Carrefour de la Résistance) ↔ Sucy-en-Brie (Sucy - Bonneuil RER)	2011	11.65
TCSP Massy - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines	Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - Christ-de-Saclay - Palaiseau - Massy-Palaiseau	2000	14th	2000: Magny-les-Hameaux ↔ Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines 2009: RER Massy-Palaiseau ↔ École Polytechnique (Palaiseau) 2016: École Polytechnique (Palaiseau) ↔ Christ-de-Saclay
Tvm Trans-Val-de-Marne	Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Saint-Maur-Créteil RER) ↔ Antony (La Croix de Berny RER)	1993	19.7	1993: Saint-Maur - Créteil ↔ Rungis-Marché International 2007: Rungis-Marché International ↔ La Croix de Berny
T Zen 1	Saint-Denis - Porte de Paris ↔ Villetaneuse-Université / Épinay-sur-Seine	2014	14.7	12 stops

The STIF's T Zen lines

Bus of the T Zen line 1 at Lieusaint - Moissy train station

In 2007 the STIF decided to set up express bus routes. In 2009 the name was announced: T Zen; the T stands for tram, zen is used in French as an expression for serenity and calm. Five lines are firmly planned, one of which is already in operation. The respective operator of the line is determined by public tender.

A traffic development plan for the Île-de-France (Plan de Déplacements Urbains d'Île-de-France; PDU for short) provides for the construction of a total of more than 20 T-Zen lines in 2020.

The Paris traffic experts are based on the following considerations: Setting up a T Zen line is two to three times cheaper than building a tram line. A classic bus line (12 m long buses) can transport up to 1,600 people per hour in each direction of travel, a high-speed bus line (such as the T Zen) can carry up to 2,400 people and a tram up to 6,000 people.

Requirements for T Zen lines

Roadway: The bus lines are run on specially constructed bus lanes. The buses are given priority at intersections and in the roundabouts.
Operating hours: T-Zen buses are scheduled to run from 5 a.m. to 1 a.m. every day. During rush hour the buses run every 6 minutes, otherwise every 10 minutes and in the evening every 20 minutes.
Bus stops: The bus stop should only be 500 m away. You will receive video surveillance for the safety of the passengers and secure bicycle parking spaces. Electronic displays show the waiting time until the next bus arrives.

T Zen 1

This line connects the two railway stations Lieusaint - Moissy (Sénart) and Corbeil-Essonnes, which are on two different branches of the RER D , and serves the municipalities of Lieusaint , Saint-Pierre-du-Perray , Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil and Corbeil-Essonnes . The line was put into operation in 2011. There are 14 stops along the 14.7 km long route. 9.6 km of the route are special bus lanes, part of the route runs on the Parisian ring road of the Francilienne . The journey between the two end stations takes about 30 minutes. Irisbus Crealis buses are used by the operator of the Transdev route .

Route of the T Zen 1

In a later expansion phase, the bus lanes are to be extended to the Corbeil-Essonnes RER.

The T Zen 2 project

The municipal associations, Melun Val de Seine and Sénart-Ville Nouvelle, have a combined population of 200,000 and 80,000 jobs. There is therefore great interest in a good public transport connection between the two districts.

The bus depot in Lieusaint is shared by the T Zen 1 and T Zen 2 lines

The line will connect the Carré Sénart , a leisure and shopping center in Sénart with the RER station in Melun and will serve the municipalities of Lieusaint , Savigny-le-Temple , Cesson , Vert-Saint-Denis and Melun. Commissioning is scheduled for 2020.

There are 27 stations on the 17 km long route. A journey between the two end stations will take around 50 minutes, which results in a cruising speed of around 20 km / h. The T Zen 2 line has its own lanes for almost the entire route, with the exception of the crossing of the historic center of Melun and the underpass under the RER line in Savigny-le-Temple. Due to heavy traffic, other bus lines will also use the bus lanes and stops of T Zen 2 (five in Melun and two in Savigny-le-Temple) on two sections of the route.

In Melun, the line is connected to the RER D and the P line of the Transilien ; Another RER-D connection is being built in Savigny-le-Temple. The terminus in Lieusaint brings a connection to the T Zen 1.

The buses run every day from 5:00 in the morning until midnight during rush hour every 4 minutes, otherwise every 10 minutes.

Construction work is scheduled to begin at the end of 2014; Commissioning of the route is planned for 2020. Experts expect an average of 27,000 passengers a day. The construction costs are estimated at around 160 million euros, the expenditure for the vehicles at around 11 million euros.

24 articulated buses are to be used. The buses - just like the vehicles on the T Zen 1 line - will be serviced in the bus depot in Lieusaint.

Citilien - the forerunner

A Citaro bus on the Citalien line in Lieusaint

The Citilien bus line, which connects the cities of Lieusaint and Melun, has existed since 2007. In the medium term, it should be replaced by the T Zen 2 line.

There are 12 stops on the route. A journey takes between 38 and 50 minutes, depending on the volume of traffic. Initially, 13 trips in each direction were offered on weekdays. Depending on the time of day, there were 1 to 3 hours between two successive trips. In the course of time, however, the demand increased steadily, so that the timetable was condensed several times and the location of the stops was also optimized. Since 2013, the journeys have almost always taken place at 30-minute intervals.

In Sénart there are two transfer options to the T Zen 1. Four Mercedes-Benz Citaro II buses are used.

T Zen 3

The line T Zen 3 will run from Paris to the northeast: it is in the 19th arrondissement opposite Metro station Porte de Pantin of line 5 , at the same time stop the tram T3b , with the station Gargan of Line 4 of the Paris tram connect. At the stations in between there will be three more transfer options to Métrolinie 5 and one each to line 1 of the Paris tram , to Tangentielle Nord and to line 15 of the planned Grand Paris Express .

Commissioning was originally planned for 2018, but will probably take place in 2020 at the earliest.

The route will follow the former, almost straight route nationale 3 and will take over 60% of the route of the current RATP bus route 147, which also serves the Port de Pantin - Gargan route, but also goes to the Sevran-Beaudottes RER station .

There will be 18 stops along the 10 km route, serving the municipalities of Paris, Pantin , Bobigny , Romainville , Noisy-le-Sec , Bondy , Livry-Gargan and Les Pavillons-sous-Bois . After completion, more than 40,000 passengers are expected daily.

The bus depot for the maintenance of the buses will be built near the terminus in Livry-Gargan. For use are double articulated buses of 24 m length with hybrid drive is provided.

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T Zen 4

Line T Zen 4 will be the western extension from the RER station Corbeil-Essonnes , which is also the western terminus of line T Zen 1, to Viry-Châtillon . With the commissioning planned for 2017, T Zen 4 will replace the current RATP bus line 402. 7.2 km of bus lanes can be taken over by line 402.

There are 30 stops on the 14 km long route in the municipalities of Viry-Châtillon, Grigny , Ris-Orangis , Courcouronnes , Évry and Corbeil-Essonnes.

After completion, more than 40,000 passengers are expected every day. The transport will take place with Crealis-Neo-18 buses from Irisbus .

T Zen 5

It will be a line connecting the 13th arrondissement in Paris and the communes of Ivry-sur-Seine , Vitry-sur-Seine and Choisy-le-Roi .

The approximately 9 km long route begins at the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand metro station and will end at the Choisy-le-Roi RER station . Commissioning is planned for after 2020. About 20 stops are planned. Up to 47,000 passengers are expected per day.

Other existing lines

Trans-Val-de-Marne

Route map of the Tvm
2 Agora buses from Tvm in 2006

The Trans-Val-de-Marne, often abbreviated as Tvm, is a Metrobus , in French as Bus à haut niveau de service (BHNS), which is operated by the RATP. This line was put into operation on October 1st, 1993 and runs almost exclusively on its own lanes. As its name suggests, the line's job is to facilitate passenger traffic within the Val-de-Marne department . It replaced the RATP line 392, which had connected the Saint-Maur - Créteil train station with the Rungis wholesale market since 1969 .

In 2007, the line was extended by the route from the Rungis wholesale market to the La Croix de Berny RER station .

There are 32 stops on the almost 20 km long route. The traffic has been carried out with MAN Lion's City buses since 2013 . Before that, Irisbus Agora L Euro 3 buses were in use. The journey from one terminus to another takes around 50 minutes.

TCSP Massy - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

In France, TCSP stands for t ransport en c ommun en s ite p ropre , i.e. public transport on its own lanes. Once the line is completed, it will connect the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines RER station (RER C line) with the Massy-Palaiseau station (RER B and RER C lines). At the moment there are only two sections: the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ↔ Magny-les-Hameaux route, which has existed since 2000 (at the western end of the entire route); and the Massy-Palaiseau ↔ Palaiseau École Polytechnique route at the eastern end, which has been in operation since 2009. The latter section has a length of 6.2 km.

In October 2016, the Palaiseau École Polytechnique ↔ Christ de Saclay section was put into operation with its own lanes. There are 11 stops on a route of around 6.7 km in length, and bike paths have also been created parallel to the bus lanes. 10 000 people live in the catchment area of this route; there are also 15,000 jobs and 14,000 study places.

At the moment the entire route is already being used by a continuous bus line, which has its own lanes only available on the sections that have already been completed. Upon completion she will change your name from line 91-06 then becomes Express 91-06.

RATP line 393

Display board: Waiting time for the next two buses to depart towards Sucy

This line is operated by the RATP and runs between the Carrefour de la Résistance stop in Thiais and the Sucy - Bonneuil RER station in the municipality of Sucy-en-Brie (Val-de-Marne department).

The route is 12.65 km long and has 20 stops and was put into operation in September 2011. The journey between the two ends of the route takes 30 minutes. 19 articulated buses of the type Citaris 18 from Irisbus and 2 buses of the type Créalis 18 from the same manufacturer are used. The buses can accommodate up to 100 people.

The line offers a number of connections to other fast means of transport: Métrolinie 8 ( Pointe du Lac station ), the Trans-Val-de-Marne express bus line and the RER lines A, C and D.

A busy timetable is offered: a bus every five minutes during rush hour; one bus every 10 minutes for the rest of the day and one bus every 15 minutes in the evening hours. Driving runs from 5 a.m. to 1 a.m.

More future lines

Est-Tvm

This line is to be operated by the RATP and the municipalities of Créteil , Saint-Maur-des-Fossés , Joinville-le-Pont , Champigny-sur-Marne , Bry-sur-Marne in the Val-de-Marne department with Noisy-le- Grand in the Seine-Saint-Denis department and at the same time provide a shuttle service to other means of transport: to Métrolinie 8 at Créteil - Université station , to the RER A line at Saint-Maur - Créteil station , to the RER E in Bry-sur-Marne and to the RER line A at Noisy-le-Grand - Mont d'Est station .

The buses will run on their own lanes for a large part of the 15 km route. A total of 25 stops are to be created. Lie Line is an extension of the Trans-Val-de-Marne to the east, with which it will have 5 stops in common.

The first plans were made in 2006. At that time, the year 2011 was given as the completion date. But with different arguments, the municipality of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés resisted expanding the line. It is now hoped that construction work will start in 2015 after the département administration received notification in the summer of 2014 that the project had received the Déclaration d'utilité publique (DUP), which is important in France .

TCSP Barreau de Gonesse

This bus is the station Villiers-le-Bel-Gonesse-Arnouville the RER D with the station Parc des Expositions de Villepinte the RER B connect. The residents of the Val-d'Oise and Seine-Saint-Denis departments will benefit from this . It will provide transport links to public facilities such as the new Gonesse Center Hospitalier and the business parks with many jobs, the areas around Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport , the Parc d'Activités de Paris Nord 2 and the Parc des exhibition center Significantly improve Expositions de Villepinte .

The bus line is named Line 20 and is scheduled to go into operation at the beginning of June 2016. There are 8 stops on the 10 km long route - 8 km of which are on reserved lanes. The buses will run every 6 minutes during rush hour, otherwise every 15 minutes is provided. Estimates assume 7,200 passengers a day.

Buses from HEULIEZBUS of the GX 437 HYB model are used. The buses are delivered with a lithium-ion accumulator so that the kinetic energy released during braking can be stored and used again when moving off. The buses also have the “Arrive and Go” function: this switches off the combustion engine before even stopping; the restart then takes place electrically.

TCSP Esbly - Chessy - Val d'Europe

In 2015, preliminary planning began for the aforementioned route, which in Esbly is to connect line P of the Transilien network with RER line A in Val d'Europe. The route will be about 10 km. About 12 stops are to be built on it. When it goes into operation - planned for Horizon 2020 - it is hoped that there will be an average of 7,000 daily passengers. This number is expected to double by 2030 - also due to the increasing number of residents.

TCSP Sénia-Orly

The 7 km long route will connect Thiais with Paris-Orly Airport and will pass through the urban development areas of Sénia. Business parks with up to 50,000 jobs are being created near Orly. A total of 9 or 10 stops are to be created. The journey time will be approx. 19 minutes. The buses run from 5 a.m. to 2 a.m. At peak times, 5-minute intervals are planned. The route will be an extension of the existing connection on the Thiais - Pompadour - Sucy-Bonneuil bus lanes, which will be used by the RATP bus 393 and the TVM. The bus route serves three municipalities in the Val-de-Marne department: Thiais, Orly and Rungis. There will be transfer options to the RER C , to line 7 of the Paris tram , and later to metro lines 14 (extension) and 18 (new line). The line is scheduled to go into operation in 2020.

Filéo: After the buses close to work to the airport

An Otokar midibus in use on the Filéo network

The Filéobussen is taxi buses which in the vicinity of the airport Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) can be used.

Many of the more than 80,000 employees at CDG Airport have unusual working hours. The result is that the start or end of work is often outside the operating hours of the regular bus routes. That is why the Filéo lines were created. They complement the regular bus service in such a way that daily bus connections from the surrounding communities in the Val-d'Oise and Seine-et-Marne departments to CDG Airport and back - up to a distance of approx. 20 km - can be offered . On the newest line 10, which has been in existence since June 2015, z. For example, the Filéo buses operate between 5:45 p.m. and 8:45 a.m. and from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. every 30 minutes.

The buses are used as taxi buses. Passengers must register at the reservation center 90 minutes before the regular departure time at the relevant stop.

This offer was created in 1998 under the name Allobus . The company has been operating under the name Filéo since 2000. Keolis operates the bus fleet on behalf of the Syndicat des transports d'Île-de-France .

The usual STIF season tickets and the t + ticket as a single ticket are recognized .

The buses run on ten lines and serve almost 30 surrounding communities around CDG. In 2014, an average of 33,000 reservations were received per month - which corresponds to around 1,000 passengers per day.

The operation is financed by grants from the two departments, the communal association Communauté d'agglomération Terres de France and the most important employers at the airport: Aéroports de Paris and Air France .

Night bus routes: Noctilien

Every night between 0:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m., buses run on 47 different night bus routes on behalf of RATP and SNCF in Paris and the municipalities of the Île-de-France. Depending on the importance of the route, the buses on the city lines sometimes run every 10 minutes, while the surrounding lines usually only run once an hour.

Depots and workshops

The beginnings of the bus depot often date back to the 19th century. They were created back in the days of horse-drawn buses. Ever new generations of buses and new lines required constant modernization.

New depots in the 21st century for free

December 2014, the City of Paris and the RATP signed an agreement on the future use of the RATP plots for residential and office purposes. The idea is very simple: The RATP is moving its depots and workshops underground. Apartments and service providers of all kinds can then be accommodated on the area above. By 2024, 2,000 new apartments, half of them social housing, are to be built in this way. In this way, the RATP comes to new workshops and larger storage areas. The construction costs are borne by the income from external use above ground.

Two such projects are already under construction:

The new Lagny-Pyrénées bus depot in the 20th arrondissement with a usable area of 30,000 m² is due to go into operation in 2015. 30,000 m² of office space will be created above this. The project received the Brownie Awards from the Canadian Urban Institute for best international urban development project .
The Atelier Ateliers Jourdan-Corentin-Issoire is being built on the site of the Petit-Montrouge depot built in 1884. Over the depot, 650 apartments, a crèche and a day-care center and a bar for clubs, as well as a shop on the ground floor will be built. There will be 195 parking spaces in the basement for the buses - so far there have been 130. Completion is planned for 2017.

Web links

Commons : Mobilien-Buslinien - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : T Zen Bus Lines - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : RATP bus - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Annuaire de la Ville de Paris ; quoted from Mathieu Flonneau: La concurrence tramway-automobile au cours de l'entre-deux-guerres à Paris. Published in Revue d'Histoire des chemins de fer, accessed on December 29, 2014 (French)

↑ STIF press release of October 1, 2014, accessed on October 2, 2014

↑ Mobilicités: Le Stif et la RATP from the expérimenter les premiers bus standard tout électriques; from December 10, 2014 accessed on January 20, 2015 (French)

↑ Ligne 341 ... sera la première ligne de bus électrique ... STIF press release of June 19, 2015 (French) accessed on September 18, 2015

↑ Mobilicités of June 16, 2015, accessed on June 17, 2015

↑ Omnibusrevue of October 22, 2014, accessed on June 17, 2015

↑ Bus et Car from February 27, 2015, accessed on February 28, 2015 (French) ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ SYMBIOZNET numbering of the Paris bus routes (French) accessed on May 30, 2014
↑ Actualité de la mobilité électrique from October 2013 (French) accessed on April 24, 2014
↑ Information letter from STIF on the subject of movables (French) from January 2007 with extensive map material, accessed on November 13, 2014
^ STIF website on T Zen (French), accessed on November 7, 2014
↑ Press dossier STIF Un nouveau mode de transport en Île-de-France (French; 18 p.) Accessed on 7 November 2014
↑ STIF press dossier from June 2013 (French: 30 pages) accessed on October 22, 2014
↑ STIF press release (French) of October 1, 2014 with a very good overview map, accessed on October 23, 2014
↑ STIF press release (updated 2013; French) accessed on October 23, 2014
↑ STIF website on T Zen (French), accessed on November 7, 2014
↑ STIF press release of October 11, 2016: Inauguration de la ligne Express 91-06sur le Plateau de Saclay (French) accessed on October 26, 2016
↑ La nouvelle Ligne 393 (French), accessed on October 30, 2014
↑ Le Parisien: Feu vert ... (French) of July 30, 2014, accessed on November 11, 2014
^ Homepage of the Val-Oise department (French) accessed on September 14, 2015
↑ STIF press release of February 11, 2015; accessed on March 13, 2015 (French)
↑ route map
↑ homepage Sénia -Orly project; accessed on March 14, 2014 (French)
↑ Filéo's homepage (French) accessed on September 17, 2015
↑ Brownie Award to RATP accessed on March 1, 2015 (French)
↑ MOBILICITÉS of February 20, 2015 accessed on March 1, 2015 (French)

[1] Annuaire de la Ville de Paris ; quoted from Mathieu Flonneau: La concurrence tramway-automobile au cours de l'entre-deux-guerres à Paris. Published in Revue d'Histoire des chemins de fer, accessed on December 29, 2014 (French)

[2] STIF press release of October 1, 2014, accessed on October 2, 2014

[3] Mobilicités: Le Stif et la RATP from the expérimenter les premiers bus standard tout électriques; from December 10, 2014 accessed on January 20, 2015 (French)

[4] Ligne 341 ... sera la première ligne de bus électrique ... STIF press release of June 19, 2015 (French) accessed on September 18, 2015

[5] Mobilicités of June 16, 2015, accessed on June 17, 2015

[6] Omnibusrevue of October 22, 2014, accessed on June 17, 2015