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Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona

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Type
  
Private

Profit
  
€3.847 million (2010)

Number of employees
  
8,037 (2010)

Industry
  
Transport

Headquarters location
  
Barcelona, Spain

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Key people
  
Joaquim Forn i Chiariello (CEO) Dídac Pestaña Rodríguez (Vice president)

Services
  
Public transport infrastructure operation and managing

Revenue
  
€711.164 million (2010)

Founded
  
5 October 2004, Barcelona, Spain

Area served
  
Barcelona metropolitan area

Parent organization
  
Entitat Metropolitana Del Transport

Subsidiaries
  
Transports de Barcelona, S.A.

Profiles

Transports metropolitans de barcelona


Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) is the main public transit operator in Barcelona, made up of two formerly separate companies, Ferrocarril Metropolità de Barcelona, SA. and Transports de Barcelona, SA.. It runs most of the metro and local bus lines in Barcelona and the metropolitan area.

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The bus network serves Barcelona and the metropolitan area through 109 lines that cover a total distance of 920.62 kilometres. The Barcelona Metro service has 123 stations. It is formed by six lines and a funicular railway. In 2008, TMB carried 572.39 million passengers. It has 7,707 employees.

There is also an authority in Barcelona that seeks to coordinate and integrate other public transport companies (such as TRAMMET, for the local trams) into the same network, Autoritat del Transport Metropolità.

Tmb transports metropolitans de barcelona metro wagons


Logo history

TMB changed its logo in 2014 after introducing a stencil-style variant of Helvetica for their publicity.

References

Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona Wikipedia