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# 3rd metro line for the Greater Toulouse region: SYSTRA and ARCADIS win a new contract

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This new line is approximately 27km long and will transport more than 200,000
people per day in both directions, serving a total of 20 stations. It will
connect with metro Lines A and B, two tram lines and several Linéo bus lines. It
will also improve the connection between Blagnac airport and Matabiau station.
The new line will serve an urban population of 1.3 million inhabitants and three
main employment centres in the region.

SYSTRA is leading the consortium, which includes ARCADIS. The contract will
involve defining all systems for the line, stations and the maintenance and
stabling site. This includes rolling stock, automated and non-automated control
systems, centralised control systems and platform screen doors, as well as
track, power and maintenance equipment.

**Jean-Yves Reynaud, SYSTRA’s Commercial Director for France, said:** “Following
our project management assistance assignment for three lines on the Grand Paris
Express, as well as our role automating Line B of Lyon Metro, SYSTRA is once
again at the centre of a major automated metro project in France. This new
contract for the Line 3 project in Toulouse confirms SYSTRA’s position as the
signature team for automated metro systems.”

**Lionel Barin, ARCADIS Development Director, added:** “Our continued
involvement with Tisséo-Collectivités and Tisséo-Ingénierie in emblematic
transport projects for the city of Toulouse and recognition of our expertise are
reflected in this latest success. Following our project management for the
extension of three ‘short’ stations as part of the capacity doubling for
Toulouse Metro Line A, ARCADIS experts, who are very close to our clients, will
once again benefit from a flagship infrastructure project for a city and its
wider region.”

## SYSTRA AND TISSÉO: PARTNERS FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS

SYSTRA has been working with Toulouse’s transportation authorities since 1985.
The company was involved in Line A, the first automated metro line in Toulouse,
initially as design engineer then as project manager assistant for the civil
engineering phases. From 1991, SYSTRA led the project management for the
preliminary design and then, from 1998 to June 2007, for the infrastructure on
Line B of the automated metro. Between 2016 and 2017, SYSTRA carried out
preliminary designs for the 3rd line, for which the teams received the ‘BIM
d’Argent’ award in the ‘Infrastructure Project’ category in 2017. Earlier this
year, SYSTRA Group’s subsidiary SYSTRA Foncier won a major land acquisition
assistance contract for this project.

## ARCADIS, A MAJOR PLAYER IN TOULOUSE SINCE 1972

Since 1972, ARCADIS has been present in the Greater Toulouse region, providing
continuity for its local clients. The company has demonstrated its expertise,
developing its specialised metro skills locally, through preliminary designs and
working with companies on Lines A and B of Toulouse Metro.
More recently, in 2015 ARCADIS was entrusted with project management for the
‘Linéo 3’ bus rapid transit (BRT) and the extension of three ‘short’ stations to
double the capacity of Line A of the Toulouse Metro – projects that are ongoing.

ARCADIS is also working on the 3rd line of Toulouse Metro with
Tisséo-Collectivités via a framework agreement that has led it to identify
certain technical solutions and/or route alternatives, and with
Tisséo-Ingénierie via an environment PMC contract to carry out studies and
compile regulatory documentation related to this iconic project.