The Regia Autonomă de Transport Public Iaşi (RATP) is the major transit operator responsible for public transport

Public transport

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ation in Iaşi

Iasi

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, Romania

Romania

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Established on 19 March 1898, RATP operates an extensive network using tram

Tram

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s (electric trams began operating in 1900) and bus

Bus

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es. Trolley buses were used on a number of routes starting in 1985, but all trolley bus routes were converted to bus operation until 2005.

Routes

The RATP operates 8 tram routes on 76 kilometres (47.2 mi) and 9 bus routes on 98.6 kilometres (61.3 mi) throughout Iaşi.

In the first 3 months of 2007, the RATP carried 11,365,819 passengers, an average of 128,000 passengers per day.

Fares

The RATP fare system accepts tickets and transit passes. As of 1 February 2010, adult cash fares are RON

Romanian leu

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1.90 (€

Euro

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0.45) for a single trip, or RON1.60 (€0.37) each when purchased in increments of ten. Adult passes are available by the day RON6.00 (€1.41), 30-day one route RON63.00 (€14.82), 30-day two routes RON78.00 (€18.35), or 30-day all routes RON97.00 (€22.82). Student 30-day one route passes are sold for RON56.00 (€13.17), whereas Senior residents of the city over 65 are allowed to travel free (by subscription).

Rolling stock

Hundreds of cars were acquired, during the time, from different companies. The current fleet operates with 167 trams.

Product list and details (date information from RATP)

Make/Model	Description	Fleet size	Year acquired	Year produced	Notes
SSB GT4	articulated tram	104	1997–2009	1959–1965	Acquired 106 units from Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen, Hallesche Verkehrs Halle, Saxony-Anhalt Halle is the largest city in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is also called Halle an der Saale in order to distinguish it from the town of Halle in North Rhine-Westphalia... , Stadtwerke Augsburg Augsburg Augsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a... . 79 units modernised in 1988–1995. 2 units retired.
ST10	articulated tram	7	2007–2008	1976	Acquired from HEAG mobilo Darmstadt Darmstadt Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat... .
ST11	double-articulated tram	3	2007–2008	1982	Acquired from HEAG mobilo Darmstadt.
Be 4/4 + B4/B	tram + wagon	9	2003–2004	1960–1961	Acquired from Bernmobil Bern.
Be 8/8	double-articulated tram	14	2008–2010	1973	Acquired from Bernmobil Bern.
ST7/ST8	articulated tram	16	1998	1961–1963	Acquired from HEAG mobilo Darmstadt. 2 trams scrapped, the others in storage since 2010.
GT5	articulated tram	14	2001	1964–1969	Acquired from Stadtwerke Augsburg. 4 trams scrapped, the others in storage since 2010.

Former rolling stock (informations from RATP)

Make/Model	Description	Fleet size	Fleet numbers	Year acquired	Year produced	In service until	Notes
old trams	2-axle tram	54	1-54	1898-?	1898-?	ca.1976	Original trams built by AEG, later modernised and rebuilt by other companies; 2 trams preserved
ITB V58+V10	2-axle tram+trailer	56+66	50-105/50-115	1959–1969	1958–1969	1992	1 tram preserved
ČKD Tatra T4R Tatra T4 T4 is the name of a tram produced by ČKD Tatra. It is the narrower variant of the Tatra T3 model. A large number of cars was supplied to the DDR, the USSR, Romania and the former Yugoslavia using names T4D, T4SU, T4R and T4YU, respectively...	4-axle tram	70	201-270	1978–1979	1978–1979	2009	1 tram preserved
Timiş-2	4-axle tram+trailer	47+47	301-347, 348 ex 301 (same number for both tram and trailer)	1981–1982	1981–1982	2003	1 tram+trailer preserved, 4 trams converted into works cars
ex-V58+V10	2-axle tram+trailer	15+15	100-114 (same number for tram and trailer)	1991–1992 (rebuilt)	1958–1969	ca.1996	Rebuilt by RATP Iasi from old V58+V10 trams; none preserved
ITB V2A	6-axle articulated tram	25	350-374	1992–1996	1988–1996	2003	1 prototype (new) and 24 trams acquired from Oradea and Cluj-Napoca; modernised by Nicolina SA; 1 tram preserved
ČKD Tatra T4D Tatra T4 T4 is the name of a tram produced by ČKD Tatra. It is the narrower variant of the Tatra T3 model. A large number of cars was supplied to the DDR, the USSR, Romania and the former Yugoslavia using names T4D, T4SU, T4R and T4YU, respectively...	4-axle tram	27+2(B4D)	201II, 206II, 208II, 212II, 219II, 223II, 230II, 231II, 236II, 237II, 241II, 242II, 244II, 246II, 249II, 251II, 253II, 257II, 260II, 262II, 266II, 267II, 269II, 271-274 / 273-274	1997–2002	1968–1988	2009	Acquired from HAVAG Halle, Saxony-Anhalt Halle is the largest city in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is also called Halle an der Saale in order to distinguish it from the town of Halle in North Rhine-Westphalia... ; none preserved

External links

• RATP official site