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| Founded | 22 October 2012 |
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| Ceased operation | 1 November 2021 |
| Headquarters | Pisa (Corporate) Livorno (Production) Prato (Commercial)[1] |
| Service area | Province of Livorno Province of Pisa Province of Lucca Province of Massa Carrara |
| Service type | Public transportation |
| Website | www |
Compagnia Toscana Trasporti Nord, also known asCTT Nord, was a public transport company established on 22 October 2012, with corporate office in Pisa and operational offices in Livorno, Prato, Lucca and Massa Carrara. It was formed after a long process of aggregation, more than ten years, of the several local public transport companies; it became the largest regional public transport company in terms of size and diffusion in theRegion extending its activity through the provinces ofLivorno,Pisa,Lucca andMassa-Carrara.
Compagnia Toscana Trasporti (CTT) was formed in 2006, with equal capital between public companies asConsorzio Lucchese Autotrasporti Pubblici (CLAP),Consorzio Pistoiese Trasporti (COPIT),Consorzio Pisano Trasporti (CPT),Azienda Trasporti Livornese (ATL) and private shareholders asCooperativa Autotrasporti Pratesi (CAP Autolinee) andLazzi. CTT concentrated in its hands the administrative, the informatics and the commercial services on behalf of the investors.This experience became preparatory to the merger, that took place in September 2012, when was merged into the newCompagnia Toscana Trasporti Nord (CTT Nord).[2]
CTT Nord was owned by sixty-threeComuni and public transport companies as Azienda Trasporti Livornese (ATL), which was incorporated, Cooperativa Autotrasporti Pratesi (CAP Autolinee), Lucca Holding (Comune di Lucca),Società Generale Trasporti e Mobilità (SGTM), and subsidiary companies such asAutolinee Toscana Nord (ATN),BluBus, Consorzio Pisano Trasporti (CPT), Consorzio Pistoiese Trasporti (COPIT),La Ferrovia Italiana, Mobit,ONE Scarl, Power Energia,Ti Forma,VaiBus.[3]
CTT Nord operated directly the local public transport in the cities ofLivorno,Cecina,Rosignano Marittimo,Portoferraio and the suburban transport in theProvince of Livorno includingElba, with the exception of the southern part of the island operated byTiemme Toscana Mobilità and, since 1 February 2015, the province ofMassa-Carrara where Autolinee Toscana Nord (ATN) were taken over.
Through its subsidiaries asConsorzio Pisano Trasporti (CPT) andVaiBus run the local transport in the cities ofPisa,Pontedera,Volterra,Lucca,Viareggio and the suburban transport in almost all the provinces ofPisa andLucca; Consorzio Autolinee Pratesi (CAP Autolinee) operated in the provinces ofPrato and partly in that ofFlorence.
CTT Nord invested on theAVM technology tracking all vehicles by satellite to give real time information to the passengers throughsmart bus stop,travel planner and introducing electronic payment for tickets through arechargeable multifunction card (Carta Mobile).
CTT Nord carried out 28,669,824 Km travelled, 1,132,621 hours of service, employed 1408 workers and about 800 buses as of 31 December 2020.[4]
| Cities | Urban Routes | Suburban Routes | School service | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carrara | 14 | 8 | [5] | |
| Cecina | 3 | 5 | 7 | [6] |
| Empoli | 5 | 14 | [7] | |
| Livorno | 18 | 6 | 1 | [8][9] |
| Lucca | 13 | 82 | 6 | [10][11] |
| Lunigiana | 40 | [12] | ||
| Massa | 9 | 7 | 5 | [13][14] |
| Pisa | 16 | 60 | 1 | [15][16] |
| Pontedera | 4 | [17] | ||
| Portoferraio | 6 | 3 | [18][19] | |
| Prato | 9 | 11 | 26 | [20] |
| Rosignano Marittimo | 8 | 4 | [21] | |
| Viareggio | 4 | [22] | ||
| Volterra | 2 | [23] |
CTT Nord began to renew the bus fleet, both urban and suburban, choosing models suitable for the assorted routes of the territory with regard to the hilly one or to the small medieval towns with narrow streets. The majority of the urban models purchased were theMercedes-Benz Citaro, while for the suburban vehicle were acquiredIveco Crossway,[24]Setra S412 andSetra S415.[25] FourRampini Alè buses were purchased for the urban service of Lucca as the model was already in use,[26] and five suburbanBelaus Gianino operated in Massa-Carrara.[27]CTT Nord, in nine years of activity, renewed partially the fleet decreasing the average age of the buses purchasing 220 new vehicles.[28]
TheRegione Toscana projected in 2010 the reform of the local public transport by road, to guarantee economic and social sustainability to the sector for the coming eleven years, with apublic tender, to appoint a sole agent to manage the localpublic transport in Tuscany.The Region andONE Scarl,[29] the consortium born on 21 December 2017 formed by twelve public transport operators (ATAF&Li-nea, Autolinee Chianti Valdarno, Autolinee Mugello Valdisieve, BluBus, CAP Autolinee, Consorzio Pisano Trasporti, CTT Nord, Etruria Mobilità, PiùBus,Siena Mobilità,Tiemme Toscana Mobilità, Vaibus), signed an agreement on 29 December 2017 to fulfil the transitional period pending the opinion of theEuropean Court of Justice and theCouncil of State for the assignment of the public transport services to a single company occurred with a public tender.[30]Following several appeals, the takeover of local operators has been postponed various times until 1 November 2021 whenAutolinee Toscane became the single operator in the Region.[31]
