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title: SYSTRA makes comeback in Brest with a tramway and an electric bus project
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# SYSTRA makes comeback in Brest with a tramway and an electric bus project

![SYSTRA makes comeback in Brest with a tramway and an electric bus project](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/brest.jpg)

### 󠀁**Two lines for intermodality in daily transport**󠁿 

The Brest’s tramway Line A, inaugurated in 2012, already carries 12.1 million
passengers per year, i.e. 36,000 people a day.  

The two new tramway and bus lines should meet Brest’s ambition to reconcile the 
density and integration of public transport networks in the urban area. They are
also in line with the ‘Plan Climat Énergie Territorial’ (territorial energy and 
climate plan), which favours electric modes of transport.

The Brest project aims to strengthen the transport offer for the whole city, by
means of 11 multimodal hubs and the reconfiguration of certain links (with the
integration of bus lanes in particular), the aim being to reducing noise
pollution and carbon emissions, particularly from car traffic.  

SYSTRA has been selected by Brest Métropole as the leader the Mobi-Brest
consortium which includes SCE, B3I, LA/BA, Forma-6 and Ferrand-Sigal as joint
contractors, with four sub-contractors (Copenhagenize, Toolz, AUAS and Artgéo).
  

> We are very proud that SYSTRA has once again been chosen by Brest Métropole 
> for this urban development project. This is a new chapter in our history with
> Brest. The sustainable dimension of the project is further enhanced by this
> French first, an electric BRT.
> Hervé Abjean, Project Director

### 󠀁**An ecodesign approach**󠁿

The project will adopt an integrated design approach, where environmental
performance and the well-being of users of the infrastructure and local 
residents will be considered alongside the technical and economic aspects.

![](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sofia-fotiadou-946x1024.jpg)

> Our client wants its future network to anticipate changes in energy and
> ecological transition.
> **Sofia Fotiadou**, ecodesign manager

### Key features – Brest Tram and BRT

- **Client:** Brest Métropole
- **Project owner: **BMa SPL
- **Tramway line B:**
  - 5.3km, 11 stations
  - o10 cars of 30m; stations sized for cars of 40m
  - oInterconnection with line A
  - oUpgrade of line A maintenance center and stabling yard for line B
- **BHNS line D:**
  - 4km, 12 stations
  - Expected commercial speed: minimum 14 km/h
  - 9 articulated electric buses of 18m
  - Recharging infrastructure to consider
  - 9 multimodal transport hubs to create
  - 2 existing transport hubs to restructure
  - Commissioning: end February 2026

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