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.

Line A was inaugurated in 1993. Line B, its counterpart, serves the main north-south axis of the city.

Following the summary of the feasibility study for an LRT and a comparative study of VAL and tramway systems (1984-1985), SYSTRA was appointed to manage the pre-project study for the civil engineering and equipment for line A (1985-1987) It then headed the consortium responsible for project management of the corresponding work (1989-1993). In 1992, as a result of the success of the first line and its knowledge of the site, SYSTRA was retained to conduct the pre-project study for line B, due to be launched in 2007. Since 1999, as head of the Toulouse AGT Engineering Consortium (GIMT), SYSTRA has been responsible for the project management of line B.

Key Dates

• 1980 : approval for a transport network on segregated site with three lines:A, B and C ;
• 1985 : choice of VAL and decision to build the first line ;
• 1993 : inauguration of line A and start of pre-project summary studies for line B ;
• 2001 : start of work ; and
• 2007 : trials and launch of line B.

Key Figures

Line B :

• length : 15.1 km (underground) ; and
• number of stations : 20.

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