From its inception, the Bordeaux tramway has had three lines running at surface level, each connecting with the other two and connected to the other public transport networks in the city.

The first tram line of Brest will be long of 14.7 km comprising 25 stations. Works of the line started in summer 2009 to be commissioned in 2012. SYSTRA is the representative of the consortium entrusted at the end of 2007 with the project management of the future light rail transit.

Clermont-Ferrand chose an innovative solution for its first 14 km tramway line. The Translohr, a tram on tyres, is the first of its kind in use.

The Haut Bugey railway line is 65 km long and runs from Bourg-en-Bresse to Bellegarde-sur-Valserine. It provides links to Evian, Saint-Gervais, and Geneva. Part of the line is currently not in use. In 1998, there were studies to upgrade the line, backed by the signing of a Franco-Swiss agreement to improve rail links between the two countries.

The first tramway line will be long of 13 km and contain a 700 m tunnel. The Y link will connect the city centre of Le Havre, Mont-Gaillard and Caucriauville. The commissioning of the line is planned for the second semester 2012. The consortium led by SYSTRA has assured, since August 2008, the project management of this first tramway line.

A consortium consisting of SYSTRA, ARCADIS and ILEX has been appointed by the owners, SYTRAL, the Joint Public Transport Authority for the Rhone and Greater Lyon, for project management for T4 tram line and the extension to the T2 tram line in Lyon.

The Mulhouse tram-train network has one periurban line running around the outskirts of the city using the existing rail lines, and two urban lines. Only the urban lines are currently being developed.

The Reims tramway will be a single line of around 10 km in length. To finance the project, the city of Reims decided to grant a concession contract to a consortium, to design, build and operate the line.

Rennes is the smallest city in France to have acquired an AGT. There were two main considerations behind this choice : the narrow criss-cross streets in the city centre which excluded any surface transport and the location of the rail station on a steep incline, which also pointed to an underground transport solution.

The east-west axis of the Rouen transport network (TEOR) uses articulated vehicles equipped with an optical guidance system. This is the first commercial application of the system developed by MATRA (now Siemens), which aligns the bus exactly with the edge of the platform so that the driver is free to concentrate on the speed of the bus and the passengers waiting on the platform.

In 1985, Toulouse became the second city in France to adopt the VAL system for its public transport network. This driverless system offers a high level of safety with automatic controls in place both on the line and in the stations.

The first line of the new tramway in Tours, 15.5 km long and serving 30 stations, will connect the north of Tours to Joué-lès-Tours.