Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company

The Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles ( French, STIB ) or Maatschappij voor het intercommunaal Vervoer te Brussel ( Dutch, STIB ), Society for inter-municipal traffic at Brussels, is the traffic operation of the 19 municipalities in the Brussels- Capital Region.

The STIB / STIB was founded in 1954 and operates as a local public transport provider, opened in 1976 Metro Metro Brussels, tram and urban buses. The total network consists of four subway lines with a length of 39 kilometers, 18 tram lines with 128.3 km line length and 47 bus lines with 348.8 line kilometers in an area of the capital region of 161 km ². Some tram lines go as Premetro in subway forward operation in tunnels. Many of the bus routes rich beyond Brussels to the belonging to Flanders suburban municipalities. In 2007, about 285 million passengers were transported. In April 2007, a new night bus network called Noctis has been introduced.

There is a composite rate, so that tickets can be used between STIB / STIB, the Belgian State Railways and the regional public transport organizations in Flanders and Wallonia, De Lijn and TEC across to users.

Since about the mid-2000s, the transport of the STIB / STIB be slowly transferred to a new color scheme. The Old yellow- blue-red thus became silver-orange.