Casa Tramway
Casablanca's tram network, opened on line T1 in December 2012 and expanded to four lines (T2 in 2019, T3 and T4 in September 2024) spanning roughly 72 km. It is run for the public transport authority Casa Transport SA by RATP Dev under an operating contract. The system's data layer is deliberately modest but real: operations are regulated from a Central Command Post at the Sidi Moumen depot that supervises the fleet and manages incidents, and fares run on a citywide contactless smart-card system (M2M platform) sold at 270+ station machines. Alstom supplied the signalling, power and Citadis rolling stock. Claims of junction signal priority and of an open real-time passenger-information feed could not be traced to a primary source and are not asserted here.
📊 Impact
Casa Transport / RATP Dev reported 357,080,623 passengers carried over the first ten years (Dec 2012-Dec 2022) on lines T1 and T2, with about 220,000 daily riders by 2019 - an operator-reported figure, not independently audited.
🎓 Lesson
A tram network can be a working smart-mobility asset on the strength of a central control room plus interoperable contactless ticketing alone; the flashier 'smart' claims (signal priority, live open data) are the ones that most often fail to trace to a source.
📖 Terms in this entry: Bus rapid transit (BRT) · E-ticketing · Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS)
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📎 Cite this project
1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Casa Tramway” — Casablanca, Morocco. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/casablanca-tramway/ (last verified 2026-07-30). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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