France • The company was the third largest private sector operator of public transport and operated: • 7 tramway networks across the country: 5 in service (
Bordeaux, Nice, Rouen, Nancy); 1 in construction in suburban
Lyon, (
Lesly) and two in project (
Le Havre and Toulon) • 77 bus networks (
January 1, 2009), especially in
Bordeaux,
Nice,
Rouen,
Saint-Étienne,
Toulon,
Le Havre and
Nancy • More than 25 suburban networks in suburban
Paris : (
Seine-St-Denis "TRA", Melun "Tram", Sénart "Sénart Bus", etc.) • 4 tourist railways (
Petit train de la Rhune,
Vapeur du Trieux,
Chemin de Fer de La Mure and
Chemins de Fer de Provence) • Ferry services in Mediterranéa: Veolia recently bought 28% of the
Société Nationale Maritime Corse Méditerranée, a previously state-owned ferry company. near
Munich is operated by Veolia.
Belgium •
Autocars De Polder has been part of the Veolia Group since 1995. • Veolia operated some
de Lijn routes under contract. Veolia Transport Belgium (VTB) was passed on to
Veolia Transdev until it was sold to a consortium consisting of
Cube Infrastructure and
Gimv in March 2014.
Denmark • Veolia ran half of the transport operations of the privatised
Combus especially around
Copenhagen. •
Copenhagen: Suburban buses. These operations were sold to
Arriva in October 2007.
Finland fast-food chain •
Helsinki: Veolia owns Helsinki Metropolitan Area's bus company
Veolia Finland, which was previously
Linjebuss and operated essentially in
Vantaa, a northern suburb of Helsinki. •
Tampere: Veolia owns the regional bus company previously known as Alhonen & Lastunen •
Seinäjoki: Veolia owns yet another local bus company, now known as Veolia Transport West Oy, operating both local and long-distance routes. Veolia Transport Finland Oy has since been passed on to
Transdev and has been known as Transdev Finland Oy since 5 February 2015.
Germany •
Veolia Verkehr, former
Connex Verkehr, offers train services, several of a regional character such as the
Bayerische Oberlandbahn from
Munich, and two long-distance services. Veolia owns a number of bus companies, mostly in suburban areas. It also operated tram systems: •
Aachen: Suburban buses, •
Berlin: Suburban tram line linking to the S Bahn, •
Frankfurt: Urban linepacks A&E, Suburban services, •
Bad Homburg: Urban & Suburban buses, •
Hagen: Urban network, •
Pforzheim: Urban network won by Veolia in August 2006. Network included in "Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund GmbH" (
KVV) and linked to it by Tram-Train line, •
Schwäbisch Hall: Urban network, •
Stuttgart: Suburban buses, • ...and also into rural areas. Veolia Verkehr has since been passed on to
Transdev and is now known as
Transdev GmbH since March 2015.
Ireland •
Dublin: Veolia operated the
Luas tramway which started operations in June 2004. Operation of the Luas tramway has since been passed on to
Veolia Transdev and renamed
Transdev Ireland. •
Galway: Veolia owned the Nestor Airlink bus company which operated between Galway and
Dublin Airport. However Jim Burke & Sons own and run it as of March 2009.
Jersey Caetano Slimbus bodied
Dennis Dart in
St Helier in December 2012 •
Connex Transport Jersey operated bus services in Jersey between 29 September 2002 and 31 December 2012 under the Mybus brand.
Netherlands Stadler GTW) in The Netherlands •
Veolia Transport Nederland consisted of: • Veolia Transport Veluwe, operating in De
Veluwe region in
Gelderland, • Veolia Transport Haaglanden, operating in
South Holland, • Veolia Transport Brabant, operating in middle and western
North Brabant with 4 urban networks in
Breda,
Tilburg,
Bergen op Zoom and
Roosendaal, • Veolia Transport Limburg, operating in the whole province of
Limburg, including city buses in
Maastricht, Parkstad (
Heerlen-Kerkrade-Landgraaf-Brunssum),
Venlo, and
Roermond and the Roermond–
Nijmegen and Maastricht–
Kerkrade train routes. • Veolia Transport Fast Ferries Zeeland (
Western Scheldt ferry). • Veolia Transport Zeeuwsch-Vlaanderen, in the southern part of
Zeeland province. •
formerly Veolia Cargo] Nederland freight trains, sold in 2009 to
SNCF Geodis. Veolia Transport Nederland became part of
Transdev in March 2011 and was brought under common ownership with
Connexxion to form Transdev Nederland. Both continued to operate independently until June 2015 when both were brought under common management. When the Limburg concession expired on 11 December 2016, the remaining
Haaglanden operations were rebranded as Connexxion.
Norway •
Veolia Transport Norge operated: •
Trondheim Tramway, •
Rogaland buses, •
Nordland buses and ferries. •
Finnmark buses and ferries. On 6 May 2011, Veolia Transport Norge was sold in a
management buyout and renamed
Boreal Transport Norge AS. The new owners were
Transport Management AS (1.4%) (the management) and
Cube Norge AS (98.6%), a subsidiary of
Cube Communications Infrastructure S.C.A. (Cube Infrastructure Fund) of
Luxembourg.
Spain •
Barcelona: Two unlinked tram networks
Trambaix and
Trambesòs and two networks in the suburbs:
Terrassa and
Mataró, •
Bilbao:
Bilbobus urban network, contract won in May 2008, sold in 2012 •
Jerez: Urban network, •
Parla: Tramway in suburban
Madrid.
Sweden • Veolia Transport Sverige AB was the umbrella company of Veolia Transport companies in Sweden: •
Gothenburg: Veolia owns the ferry company
Styrsöbolaget that operated the cross-river ferries (Älvsnabben) as well as the ferries to the south archipelago. Veolia also operate some local city bus networks or interurban lines on contract to the local authorities (
Västtrafik). •
Norrköping: Veolia operate the
Norrköping tramway on behalf of
Östgötatrafiken. •
Stockholm: Until April 2012, Veolia Transport (now Transdev) was running three tram networks (
Lidingöbanan, Nockebybanan and Tvärbanan) and a local railway (
Saltsjöbanan) in the city on behalf of
SL. •
Metro contracted by the
Stockholm County Council until 2009, after which the contract was taken over by
Hong Kong's MTR. •
Malmö: Veolia runs long-distance trains from Malmö to Stockholm, in the winter season going further on to
Åre, and the long-distance train from Malmö to
Berlin with train ferry via
Trelleborg to
Sassnitz in the summer season. Veolia Transport Sverige AB has since been passed on to
Transdev and is now known as Transdev Sverige AB since February 2015.
United Kingdom Alexander Dash bodied
Dennis Dart in
Pontypridd, Wales train at station in 2002 •
Connex South Eastern - A train operator in south-east England that ran from 14 October 1996 to 9 November 2003. The contract was due to run until 2011; but their contract was revoked owing to poor financial management after repeated warnings from Government. •
Connex South Central - A train operator in the south of England that ran from 26 May 1996 until 25 August 2001. Initially their contract was due to run until 2003. In October 2000 the new contract was awarded to
Govia. Soon after they and Connex worked out a takeover of the remainder of Connex's contract; starting in August 2001. •
Connex Bus UK - a bus operator formed in mid 1999 by Connex, operating bus services in greater
London. Sold to
National Express in 2004 after losing the rail franchises above. •
Dunn-Line – A
National Express contractor. Veolia sold its
Nottingham bus and private hire coach operations to
Premiere Travel from 31 January 2011; on 6 January 2011, its National Express coach work from the city passed to
Yourbus. •
Veolia Transport Cymru, which purchased the following (ceased by December 2012): • Pullman Coaches • Bebb Travel – A National Express contractor • Shamrock Coaches • Hawkes • Longs • Astons Coaches (Kempsey,
Worcester) • Paul James Coaches (Taken over by
Centrebus in October 2011) • Veolia Transport – Running a number of Nexus secured local bus services in
Tyne & Wear. Veolia local and sightseeing services in
York were taken over by
Transdev York in August 2008. As a result, Veolia Transport had no more operations in UK by the time of Veolia Transdev's rebranding in 2013. However, since the services in York were taken over by Transdev York (part of the
old Transdev), they still eventually became part of Veolia Transdev and the current Transdev.
Central Europe Veolia Transport Central Europe was a daughter company for Central Europe. It was later passed on to
Veolia Transdev and then sold to Arriva in the spring of 2013.
Czech Republic Veolia Transport was one of the largest bus operators, operated also one regional railway line and one trolleybus network. Main acquisitions carried out (as Connex) in 2002–2004 (
ČSAD Ostrava, Třinec, Praha-Vršovice, Příbram, DP Teplice), smaller in 2005 (MAD Kolín), 2008 (Nerabus), 2010 (Spojbus) etc. In summer 2008, it changed its trademark from Connex to Veolia Transport. In 2004–2007, several times competed or offered for passenger railway transport, however have got no new job yet. •
Veolia Transport Česká republika a. s. (since 2006 a daughter of German company Veolia Transport Central Europe) has 4 operator subcompanies: •
Veolia Transport Morava a. s. (based on former companies ČSAD BUS Ostrava→Connex Morava and ČSAD Třinec→BUS Slezsko), operated regional bus transport in
Moravian-Silesian Region and
Olomouc Region, urban bus networks in 7 cities, e. g.
Třinec,
Český Těšín,
Šumperk and
Krnov, many long-distance bus lines, some skibus and cyclobus lines etc. Operated the local railway line 293 (Desná Railway). •
Veolia Transport Východní Čechy a. s. (based on the former companies ČSAD AUTOBUSY CZ Chrudim→Connex Východní Čechy and Městská autobusová doprava Kolín, s. r. o.), operated regional bus transport in the east Bohemia (east part of
Central Bohemian Region,
Pardubice Region,
Hradec Králové Region etc.), urban bus networks in
Chrudim,
Kutná Hora and
Kolín and some long-distance bus, skibus and cyclobus lines. •
Veolia Transport Praha s. r. o. (based on the former companies ČSAD Praha-Vršovice→Connex Praha, ČSAD Příbram→Connex Příbram, NERABUS s. r. o. and SPOJBUS s. r. o.), operated regional bus transport mostly south and south-east of Prague, including several bus lines of Prague city transport and urban bus networks in
Příbram,
Neratovice,
Roudnice nad Labem,
Říčany etc. •
Veolia Transport Teplice s. r. o. (based on the former city enterprise DP Teplice), operated urban network of bus and trolleybus lines in
Teplice.
Slovakia •
Nitra: Urban network and bus station.
Poland Gemini • Veolia owned a number of bus companies and operated an urban network: •
Tczew: Urban city network.
Serbia • Veolia owned a number of bus companies and operated 2 urban networks: •
Belgrade: Urban city network •
Požarevac: Urban, suburban and intercity network ==Asia==