TPER

Trasporto Passeggeri Emilia-Romagna (TPER, Italian for Emilia-Romagna passenger transportation) is a public company overseeing public transportation in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, in the province of Ferrara and in parts of the provinces of Modena and Ravenna, Italy.
It owns part of Trenitalia Tper, which operates train services in the wider Emilia-Romagna region, on railway lines overseen by both Rete Ferroviaria Italiana and Ferrovie Emilia Romagna.
The current company was born on 1 February 2012 from the merger of the transport division of ATC, which at that time operated public transportation services in the Bologna and Ferrara basins, with the transport division of Ferrovie Emilia Romagna (FER).
In the early months of 2014, the company became the reference shareholder of SETA, a company that provides local public transportation services by road in the provinces of Modena, Reggio Emilia and Piacenza.
As of December 2014, TPER holds shareholdings in 13 companies, mainly operating in the passenger and freight transport sector.
The share capital is divided as follows among the various public bodies of Emilia-Romagna and 3 provinces of Lombardia:
The bus fleet inherited from ATC consists of 1200 vehicles.
The fleet circulating in Bologna is composed of: Mercedes-Benz Citaro, Mercedes-Benz Cito, Mercedes-Benz Integro, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, Iveco CityClass, Irisbus Citelis, Iveco Bus Urbanway, Iveco Crossway, Iveco Crealis Neo, Iveco Daily Way, BredaMenarinibus Monocar 240, BredaMenarinibus Zeus, BredaMenarinibus Vivacity, BredaMenarinibus Avancity, BredaMenarinibus Citymood, CAM BusOtto, CAM Alè, Setra S 419 UL, Volvo 7700, MAN Lion's City, Neoplan Centroliner, Van Hool A300, Solaris Trollino, Solaris Urbino.
TPER operates three bus depots (garages) in Bologna (Battindarno depot, Due Madonne depot and Ferrarese depot), one in Imola (BO), one in Prati di Castel di Casio (BO) (upper Reno valley), one in Ferrara (Trenti deposit) and one in Comacchio (FE). Moreover, several proprietary car parks are scattered in the area managed by the company, along the main suburban and extra-urban lines.
TPER has also inherited three railway depots from FER: Bologna Roveri, Ferrara Porta Reno (now closed) and Rimini Clementini, which then was ceded to START Romagna together with its bus services. The Rimini Clementini depot was soon after turned into a car park
These are now part of the Trenitalia-Tper service basin.
These vehicles have been withdrawn by TPER from service due to various reasons.
As the Bredabus 4001.12 FLU of the latter ATC (fleet number series 011-020) never entered service into TPER, the following vehicles, which merged in TPER, have been dismissed:
TPER's predecessor, Azienda Trasporti Consorziali, has established over the years a collection of various train carriages; railway and tramway steam engines; electric tramcars; buses and trolleybuses which over the past 133 years had guaranteed public transport in the Bologna area. The museum, called "Collezione Storica ATC", was established inside the former tram and bus shed "Deposito Zucca" in Via di Saliceto; very close to the Ustica Memorial Museum, which hosts the wreck of the MC-Donnel Douglas DC-9 operating the Itavia Flight 870, which crashed in the Tyrrhenian Sea between the isles of Ponza and Ustica, killing all the people aboard. The Collezione Storica ATC has the following vehicles in its inventory:
Other urban special bus lines of Bologna (from Friday to Sunday, eve of holidays and public holidays only) - (Night lines)
Prontobus routes are some bus routes which require reservation at least 24h before for some, most or all of their services: