Within a concession associating ALSTOM and Bouygues, the
Reims Metropolitan Authority chooses an ALSTOM APS
wire-free CITADIS tramway

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Signed on 13 July 2006, this contract, worth € 1.4
billion, will be financed as a concession over a 30 year
period. It covers the construction of the tram line, urban
civil works and the operation of the bus and tram networks
throughout the concession period. ALSTOM’s share of the
contract is worth € 222 million. ALSTOM will hold 17% of
the share capital of the concession company, which represents a
€ 5 million investment.

The Reims tram system is a good example of cooperation
between ALSTOM and Bouygues. Bouygues, through Bouygues
Construction, Colas and their respective subsidiaries, will be
responsible for the civil works. ALSTOM Transport will be
responsible within the concession company of the construction
and maintenance of the 18 CITADIS™ trams, the rail
network, the signalling equipment, the power supply, the
overhead power cable and the ticketing.

For this contract, ALSTOM will also benefit from the
cooperation it has developed with Transdev for other networks,
such as Valenciennes or Grenoble.

Following Bordeaux in 2000 and Angers on 11 July 2006, Reims
is the third city to choose an APS Citadis tramway,
ALSTOM’s unique innovative “wireless”
ground-level power system. It will preserves Reims’
historical city centre over a 2 kilometres portion of the 11.2
km line. The line will serve 22 stations.

The vehicles will be delivered between October 2009 and 2010
first quarter. Revenue service is scheduled to start at the end
of 2010. Each tram will measure 32 metres and will carry over
200 passengers. The trams will be designed and assembled in
ALSTOM’s La Rochelle factory – the company’s
Centre of Excellence for trams. Four other ALSTOM sites in
France will supply sub-systems: Tarbes the traction drives,
Ornans the traction motors, Le Creusot the bogies, and
Villeurbanne the tram electronics.

Reims is the world’s 24th city to have chosen
CITADIS™ – the 15th in France. This further
confirms ALSTOM’s success with this product line and its
leadership in the French tram market, where 80% of the
steel-wheel trams are ALSTOM-built. To date, 800 CITADIS™
have been ordered worldwide, including 400 in commercial
service. CITADIS™ trams have carried over 1 billion
passengers and have demonstrated reliability over a total
distance of 76 million kilometres.

¹ Partners of the “MARS” consortium

- Authorised representative, trams, power supply (including
APS), signalling, infrastructure (rail tracks), maintenance,
ticketing: ALSTOM Transport SA

- Civil engineering: Bouygues Travaux Publics SA, Colas SA,
Pertuy Construction SA, Quille SA

- Operation : Transdev

- Engineering: Pingat ingénierie SAS, SNC-Lavalin
International Inc.,

- Financial institutions: Caisse d’Epargne
Champagne-Ardenne, Caisse des Dépôts, IXIS Corporate
& Investment Bank SA

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