Les titres de transport d'hier et de demain
Né le 19 juillet 1900, le titre de transport parisien accompagne depuis des millions de franciliens dans leur quotidien. Retracer le parcours du fameux ticket d’hier et d’aujourd’hui : une histoire en étroite correspondance avec les grandes évolutions du siècle, qu’elles soient sociologiques, historiques, environnementales ou technologiques.
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L'histoire des transports de 1999 à nos jours
Avec l'entrée dans le XXIème siècle, la RATP a trouvé une motivation supplémentaire pour continuer sur sa lancée novatrice. Du premier métro sur pneumatiques à l'automatisation en passant par la billettique sans contact, la RATP a en effet toujours montré le chemin pour s'imposer comme leader de la mobilité urbaine.
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La ligne 14, première ligne automatique
Le 15 octobre 1998, le président de la République Jacques Chirac inaugure la ligne 14 (première ligne entièrement automatisée).
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Le métro et la Seine : ponts et tunnels
L'un comme l'autre serpentent à travers Paris, et c'est à plus d'un siècle que remonte leur histoire commune. Depuis, entre la banlieue nord-ouest et les quartiers sud-est de la capitale, le métro a franchi la Seine à 12 reprises.
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Le RER de 1969 à nos jours
Le 8 décembre 1977 – il y a quarante ans ! – le RER devient une réalité : ce jour-là, son tronçon central reliant Auber à Nation est inauguré par le président de la République Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
Ainsi naît la ligne A, tout comme la ligne B, qui, le même jour, est prolongée de Luxembourg à Châtelet-Les Halles. D’extensions en modernisations, de jonctions en interconnexions, le roi RER commence son règne : au travers de ces deux lignes clés empruntées aujourd’hui par près de 2 millions de Franciliens chaque jour, il étend sa suprématie sur Paris et sa (très) grande couronne.
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RER, from its origins to current reality
With some peopled pronouncing it “Raire” to go just that little bit quicker, it is easy to forget that RER stands for Réseau Express Régional (Regional Express Network).
The sovereign means of transport for everyone in Ile-de-France who wants to travel efficiently, the track towards today’s network was laid by its railway ancestor during the July Monarchy of 1830-1848. This track, or rather these tracks, are still in use today!
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The first metro in the world
As early as the second half of the 19th century, the metro established itself as one of the key elements of the full-steam-ahead rush to modernity.
The expansion of cities at ground level was accompanied by the parallel growth of public transport.
Within this extraordinary industrial and urban machine, trains and stations came into being, but underground. The metro was well and truly on its way.
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RER rolling stock
In the beginning, steam engines were the masters of the old railway lines that would eventually make up the first sections of the RER. In the first half of the 20th century they gave way to electric trains in the west and south.
As the RER came into service, new rolling stock -- safer and more comfortable -- started to appear. Over the years, this has been replaced by ever more modern trains, which are better suited to the new demands placed upon them.
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Uniforms from 1949 to the present day
Autumn, winter, spring and summer. For women or for men.
When dressing its staff for all locations and all weathers, RATP has to make some bespoke choices.
The design must be economical.
And it must be practical, ergonomic and, of course, attractive.
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Tramways from 1975 to the present day
In Paris, the curtain came down on 15 March 1937.
On this day the final 123/124 service between Porte de Vincennes and Porte de Saint-Cloud trundled for the last time into the Malakoff depot.
This final act also saw the 112 tramway from Le Raincy-Montfermeil stop running on 14 August 1938.
With the exception of the network in Versailles, which kept running up until 1957, this looked like the end of the line for tramways in the Paris region.
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Buses from 1965 to the present day
Because it was the first “standard” model in RATP’s history, the SC10-U marked a key turning point in the route followed by bus travel since the 1900s. Indeed, it proved to be a mini-revolution, giving this bus, nicknamed “Siou”, near-mythical status. It marked the beginning of the modern era for buses, from today’s articulated models to the electric buses of the future.
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Buses from their origins to 1965
The heir to carriages and the aptly-named ‘omnibus’, a competitor for trams and then an ally for the metro, buses today are still very good news for a city. From the ‘Impériale’ double-decker to the legendary SC10, take a short trip on board a vehicle that moves through history.
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Tramways from 1885 to 1937
Although the name suggests rails running flush to the road, the history of the tramway has been anything but smooth: lauded at first, before becoming a source of hostility, trams have had a long journey through the urban jungle, before their recent reappearance on our streets, backed by genuine political will and better designed systems.
Portrait of a streetcar named Desire, of course, but more importantly today, also named Economy and Ecology.
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Parisian public transport and the First World War
Born from the grinding gears of European alliances, the First World War was meant to be short: “the war to end all wars”, they said. As everyone knows, the reality was very different. The theme of transport sheds a revealing light onto this dark, four-year period.
The signal for the beginning of this tortuous journey was given one day in 1914 in the Assemblée Nationale, as can be seen in the following account.
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The art of Parisian public transport
It comes as no surprise that the RATP acronym shares three letters with the word 'ART'. From the very beginning, Paris’ public transport networks had a keen sense of beauty, bringing together the practical and the aesthetic for the pleasure of passengers.
This pioneering role resonates down the ages as an invitation to other journeys... through time and space.
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The history of public transport 1949 to 1999
Speed, reliability, accessibility, safety: for more than 60 years, RATP has been overcoming all obstacles in its way. From the iconic ticket to the Navigo pass, from the RER to the Météor, from the rebirth of trams to a future of automation and sustainable development, a process of change driven by billions of passengers.
This story moves not so much from a point of departure to one of arrival, but from one century to another and, more broadly, from one world to another.
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Public transport from its origins to 1948
From the first regular carriage services to the one-and-a-half billion passengers carried in 1946; from omnibuses to trolleybuses via just plain buses and the metro the story of public transport through to the post-war years is a remarkable voyage through time, where tiny historical details are constantly informed by, and cast new light on the major historical developments of the time.
All aboard!
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