On 23 September, the new T3 and T4 lines of the Casablanca tramway in Morocco were put into service.
Since 2017, Egis has supported Casatransports SA in this major project, by ensuring the complete project management of lines 3 (14 km) and 4 (12.5 km). These lines have 20 and 19 passenger stations, respectively, and each is powered by 19 electrical substations. The fleet is made up of 40 trams of approximately 70 m in length, each able to accommodate 600 passengers.
After the launch, the 24 trams will run at a frequency of 10 minutes from one end of the 2 lines to the other, from 5:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. The service eventually proposed will have a frequency of approximately 5 minutes when the 40 ordered trams have all been received and put into service.
The Hantate PCC regulates 4 tram lines and 2 BHNS lines of the Casablanca network and offers, among other things, a common GTC integrating in addition to the newly developed GTC for the T3/T4 lines, GTCs developed specifically and in their respective times for the T1/T2 tram lines and the L5/L6 BHNS lines.
A new ALSTOM X05 model train crossing the Casablanca urban motorway on the bow-string structure was specifically built for this use as part of the project.
The Hantate depot maintenance center is a mixed tram-BHNS depot capable of providing routine maintenance and storage for 48 trains.
The expected ridership is around 170,000 trips per day for each of these lines by 2030, making this transport system an important vector of mobility in this constantly developing agglomeration.
