SYSTRA is the main partner of the 7th "VTM" conference (Track & Maintenance) organised in Paris by Le Rail magazine on 19 and 20 November.

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, to build an extension to the T2 tramway line. Once completed, the line will extend as far as Eurexpo, the Lyon exhibition centre.

9 September 2009 (999) saw the official inauguration of the Red Line on the Dubai Metro, with the commercial commissioning, from 10 September, of 10 key stations out of the 29 the line will eventually have. The other stations are to be opened to the public gradually over the following weeks.

Cité Tram, on behalf of the owner, SITCAT (Tours Metropolitan Communities Transport Authority), has chosen a SYSTRA-led consortium to manage the project to deliver the first line of the new tramway.

As head of a consortium including, amongst others, MottMacDonald Prague (Czech Republic) and SAMAN (Korea), SYSTRA S.A. has won an international call for tenders launched by the Bakou Metro to draw up designs for the future metro network.

Following an international call for tenders, a consortium headed by SYSTRA has been chosen by Casablanca Transport S.A. (Casa Transports) to manage the project to construct the city’s first tramway line.

During the 58th UITP World Congress organized in Vienna from 7 to 11 June 2009, SYSTRA will present SYSTRA Conseil, our innovative offer for sustainable mobility. We have the pleasure to welcome you to our stand:

The Bucharest Metro operator, METROREX SA, has chosen the METROUL (lead partner) / SYSTRA Consortium to supervise works on the construction of a fifth metro line for the Bucharest metro. The contract, worth 36.7m RON (9.6m Euros), was signed on 24 April 2009.

On 1st April 2009 Cross London Rail Link issued a statement awarding the general management of the Crossrail project (design and construction works) to the Bechtel-Halcrow-SYSTRA consortium.

The world is a very different place in recent years since the Rio and Kyoto talks on the environment. People have increasingly high expectations regarding initiatives to establish fair economic development, to fight climate change and to improve living standards for all.

SYSTRA, a world leader in urban and rail transport, saw these changes coming, and decided to focus on developing its expertise in providing more comprehensive sustainable mobility solutions.

SYSTRA, as part of a joint venture with the Spanish firm, Getinsa, and Yüksel Project from Turkey has been appointed by TCDD, Turkish Railways, to supervise works to modernise two railway lines in the south of the country with a combined length of 426km, the Bogazköprü–Yenice and Mersin–Toprakkale lines. The programme is being financed with a loan from the World Bank.

SYSTRA is once again providing assistance to the Santiago Metro in Chile for a review of design, and for the construction and commissioning of new extensions.