page_title: Abidjan Transport Company
section_title: Modernisation
hierarchical_section_title: Abidjan Transport Company / Modernisation
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Autobus du constructeur indien Tata, appartenant à la Sotra, société organisant les transports d'Abidjan.
context_page_description: The Abidjan Transport Company is the public transit provider for Abidjan, Ivory Coast and its suburbs. It is the first urban transport company organized in West Africa. SOTRA is a company that manages transit through its bus and water bus fleet. This company was created on December 16, 1960, to manage all modes of surface transportation, which were previously provided by private interests. Its status is that of a mixed economy company.
context_section_description: SOTRA buses were equipped with a ticketing system computer (BAO), which is installed in buses SOTRA a mini computer or precoded console capable of emitting titles directly transport form of receipt with all the travel data (date, time, line, position ...).
  From 22, buses Renault R312  and  in good condition, previously used by RATP in Paris, entered service in the park SOTRA instead of bus Tata and Iran Khodro. For its part, the city of Strasbourg R312 5 bus offered to the company. In total, 300 new vehicles were promised by the Prime Minister at the time, Guillaume Soro. This renewal is part of a comprehensive plan to rehabilitate buses Abidjan and recovery of the company. The cost of the operation is estimated at 4.7 billion CFA francs.
caption: A bus Tata Motors to Abidjan in 2009. Little resistance, they are gradually replaced by newer buses.
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