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Transdev, a subsidiary of Caisse des dépôts et consignations since its creation in 1990, operates primarily in urban and interurban transport, but has recently diversified into specialist markets such as tourism, airport ground transportation and transportation in ski resorts. Due to the nature of franchising in France, the actual number of companies and joint ventures in the group is constantly changing.
Australia
In Australia, Transdev held a 50% shareholding in TransdevTSL, a joint venture with Transfield Services.
From August 1999 until November 2009, TransdevTSL operated the Yarra Trams franchise in Melbourne. In August 2001, Transdev purchased Sydney bus operator Shorelink. In November 2003, TransdevTSL commenced operating a seven-year contract to operate Brisbane ferry services CityCat and CityFerry.
The joint venture was dissolved in December 2010, with Transfield selling its shares to Transdev, and the operations in Sydney and Brisbane are fully operated by Transdev.
Morocco
In 2010, Transdev was awarded a contract to operate the Rabat-Salé tramway in Morocco for six years, but the tramway did not open until after the Veolia-Transdev merger in May 2011. Despite so, the tramway operated with Transdev's old logo until the rebranding of Veolia Transdev in 2013.
Netherlands
In October 2007, Transdev entered a 75/25 joint venture with Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten to purchase a 67% share in Connexxion. This resulted in Transdev owning 50% of the business.
Portugal
In 2002 Transdev started operating the Porto Metro system.
United Kingdom
Transdev became the first continental European company to acquire an urban bus network in the UK with the purchase of London United in August 1997, giving the company a 9% share of the London bus market. In November 2002, a further London business, London Sovereign, was purchased.
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In March 2004 as part of the Arrow Light Rail consortium it commenced operating the Nottingham Express Transit tram network with Nottingham City Transport, a company which it subsequently purchased an 18% stake.
In December 2005, Transdev purchased a 90% shareholding in Yellow Buses, Bournemouth.
In January 2006, Transdev purchased the Blazefield Group with 305 buses.
Aftermath of merger with Veolia Transport
Transdev merged with Veolia Transport to form Veolia Transdev in March 2011. However, RATP owned 25.6% stake of Transdev. As part of its withdrawal from Transdev's capital, its stake would be exchanged for some of Transdev's operations, for a total value equal to that of its holdings. Some of the operations transferred were:
Transdev Yellow Buses (England)
London United (England)
DolomitiBus (Italy)
Vienne Mobilités (France)
Transdev Champagne (France)
Transdev Savoie (France)
London Sovereign, which was passed on to Veolia Transdev, would also be sold to RATP Group in April 2014.
As of January 2016, most of Transdev's operations (including Moroccan) have remained in the new Transdev company, with different names and most bearing the new Transdev logo. However, the Arrow Light Rail contract to operate Nottingham Express Transit
was cancelled in 2011 when Tramlink Nottingham was selected as the preferred bidder for the construction of Phase 2 of the light rail, with its final day of operation on 16 December 2011.
From Wikipedia’s article on Transdev S.A., shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4