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Standing out as a major engineering firm

in mobility and urban development

Delivering agile and safe multimodal transport

The inroads that it has made in We started out by establishing a highly efficient position on tram and right-of-way public
the transport sector constitute transport network projects. Very few of our competitors possessed the two essential assets
one of the real success stories of needed for success in this type of project: first, expertise in transport systems, which we had
Artelia, and one of the fields where gained through the acquisition of Thalès Engineering & Consulting (ex Sogelerg) by Coteba,
the synergy within the Group has and second, locally-based engineering consultants specialising in urban development, which
been particularly fruitful. Each of we inherited from Sogreah and the regional engineering firms it had acquired. Following its
the two founding companies had successive involvement in the tram networks of Bordeaux and Le Havre, the T1 and T3 lines in
started developing in this business Greater Paris, the Cuenca network in Ecuador, and then those in Caen and Montpellier, Artelia
sector, thereby paving the way for became one of the leading French consulting engineers capable of providing integral design
the new Group to become a leading and management services for the construction of these infrastructure projects.
player in major transport projects.
The pooling of the two firms' At the same time we deployed efforts to implement metro and major railway infrastructure
complementary skills effectively projects, with the initial successes leading to emblematic follow-on projects. In 2013, thanks
created new opportunities to its dual expertise in project management and transport engineering, Artelia was appointed
in this field. by the Société du Grand Paris to provide general project management for the creation of lines
15, 16 and 17 of the new driverless Paris metro: a colossal project and an undeniably clear
endorsement of our Group. This success was quickly followed by other metro projects (Lille,
Marseille, line 18 of the Grand Paris Express, etc.) while at the same time opening up major
railway infrastructure projects for the national network operator, SNCF (line renovations,
rolling stock maintenance centres, stations and transport interchanges).

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