On April 2, 2004, the People’s Committee of the City of Hanoi (Vietnam) officially chose SYSTRA as engineering company for a feasibility study of a pilot tramline in response to a call for tenders.

The initial conclusions of the study will be made available at the end of August 2004, and the study completed for President Chirac’s visit to Vietnam in early October.

SYSTRA has already established an assignment on the spot and will be mobilizing twenty-two experts on the project.

The intended tramline project could be installed on one of the main pilot bus routes, route 32. The principle is a 14-km long experimental line connecting the city center to the new districts west of the city, with the capability of carrying up to 100,000 passengers a day.

There are several possible alternatives in the city center, towards the Opera or the railway station.