Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid

The Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid (also known as EMT Madrid) is the company charged with the planning of public urban transport in the city in Madrid, Spain. The organization is wholly owned by the City Council of Madrid and is a member of the Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid.[2] Among the services provided by EMT Madrid are urban bus transportation as well as the BiciMAD bicycle-sharing system.

Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid
Typesociedad anónima
Founded11 November 1947
HeadquartersCerro de la Plata, 4
28007 Madrid[1]
Area served
Madrid
Key people
Servicesbus transport, bicycle-sharing system, public car and bicycle parking system, gondola lift
Number of employees
8,540
Websitehttp://www.emtmadrid.es

History

EMT Madrid was established on 12 November 1947 after the dissolution of the Joint Transport Company.[3] Originally a municipal private company, in 1971 it became a joint stock company. It provided trolleybus service until it disappeared in 1966 and tram services until 1972.[4]

Multimodal public transport

City bus lines

The EMT manages a fleet of 2076 buses distributed in 213 lines that have an extension of 3500 kilometers.[5] Currently, it provides the bus service in regular and temporary lines to replace other transports that have suffered an accident or have their service interrupted due to works.

As part of EMT's added value there is an open data system for the "Smart City", CCTV and free WiFi connection both in the most relevant stops and in the whole bus fleet.[6]

To reduce the volume of polluting gases emitted by its vehicles through the use of alternative energies such as Compressed Natural Gas, biodiesel, electric traction, hydrogen, bioethanol; intensive renewal of the fleet with conventional diesel buses with strict environmental requirements.[7]

BiciMAD

In May 2016, with the municipalization of the bicycle rental service (until then operated by Bonopark S.L.) by the City Council,[8] the EMT assumed the management of this service.[9][10]

  • Castrosua bus operating in central Madrid.
  • An EMT Citaro.
  • BiciMAD bike-sharing service (operated by EMT Madrid since 2016)
  • Teleférico de Madrid (operated by EMT Madrid since 2018)

References
  1. "EMT Madrid Annual Report 2013" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  2. "EMT Madrid" (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  3. "Sesenta años de la EMT". abc (in Spanish). 2007-11-11. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  4. Medialdea, Sara (11 November 2007). "Sesenta años de la EMT". ABC.
  5. Unknown, Escrito por. "Inaugurado el Centro de Operaciones de Sanchinarro de la EMT". Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  6. "Servicio Free-Wifi". freewifi.emtmadrid.es. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  7. "EMT dejará de emitir 21.300 toneladas de gases invernadero entre 2019 y 2022". Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  8. Press, Europa (2018-01-22). "El Ayuntamiento defiende la compra de Bicimad tras "numerosos" estudios de Bonopark por parte de la EMT y otros externos". www.europapress.es. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  9. "EMT Madrid. Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid, S. A. - BiciMAD". www.emtmadrid.es. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  10. "Ampliación BiciMad 2019 – El blog de la EMT | Nos mueve Madrid" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-11.
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