Transports de l'Agglomération de Montpellier

The Transports de l' agglomà de Montpellier ( TaM ) is a corporation, the ( public transport ) performs the public transport in the French city of Montpellier and its suburbs. Until 2000 it was called Société de transport urbain montpelliéraine ( SMTU). The main shareholder is the city of Montpellier.

The implementation of the public transport was transferred to the private Compagnie des transports montpelliérains (CTM ) in 1968, the fixed assets remained the property of the city. It reversed only buses, the tram service had been discontinued in 1949. 1978 went material and operational management for the period of 30 years on the SMTU about where the city held the majority of shares. In 1982, the offer was on the district of Montpellier, a consortium of twelve municipalities currently expanded. The following year, the SMTU took over the school bus traffic.

Between 1979 and 1993, the length of the busy lines tripled. It special night lines were established and operated the city center by minibuses. In the 1990s began with the construction of the new tram. In addition, since 1988 the SMTU managed the bus station on the covered railway station in the state railway (since 2005: Gare de Montpellier Saint -Roch ) and gave the name Vill'à vélo since 1992 bicycles.

In 2000, the SMTU was in TAM (now TaM ) unnamed and opens the line 1 tram Montpellier. In 2006, added a second, in 2012, a third and a fourth line. The mid-2000s began a cooperation with the company Transdev. The bike rental was 2007 Vélomagg '.