Azienda Trasporti Milanesi S.p.A.
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| Società per azioni | |
| Predecessor | SAO (until 1893) Edison (until 1917) |
| Founded | Milan, Italy 1931 |
| Headquarters | Milan, Italy |
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Area served
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Milan metropolitan area |
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Key people
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Luca Bianchi (Chairman) |
| Services | Bus, tram and rapid transit lines operation |
| Revenue | €903.097 million (2010) |
| €6.831 million (2010) | |
| Owner | Comune di Milano |
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Number of employees
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9484 |
| Subsidiaries | ATM servizi, Guidami, GESAM, Nord est trasporti (93.5%), Nuovi trasporti lombardi (74.5%), Mipark (51%), Perotti (51%), International Metro Service (Copenhagen Metro) (51%) |
| Website | www |
Azienda Trasporti Milanesi (ATM) is a public company responsible for public transportation in Milan city and some surrounding municipalities, in Italy. It operates 4 metro lines (Milan Metro), 18 tram lines, 67 urban bus lines, 4 trolleybus lines, and 52 interurban bus lines, carrying over 734 million passengers in 2010.
ATM offers also other minor services mainly related to transportation around the city. These services include Radiobus, an on-call minibus service; the light railway linking the San Raffaele Hospital with the metro network; the Como–Brunate funicular railway; GuidaMi car sharing and BikeMi bike sharing services.
Public transport in Milan started on August 17, 1840, with the opening of the Milan-Monza railway. Horse-drawn buses were introduced in 1841. Services were run by the Società Anonima degli Omnibus (SAO), "Omnibus Anonymous Company". The company was responsible for 11 bus lines between 1861 and 1865.
Few years later the first horse-drawn trams were introduced: 3 lines were opened in 1881 followed in 1893 by the first electric tramway, built by Edison company. Two years later the same company opened 18 more lines, all ruled by municipality offices. Edison's concession on new lines expired in 1917, leaving all the operations to the municipality. Few years later the public offices responsible for public transport operations were made independent, becoming the Azienda Tranviaria Municipale (ATM) in 1931.
In the meantime, the first petrol powered bus lines were introduced in 1905, operated by SITA (Società Italiana Trasporto con Automobili) and then moved under control of ATM along with the first trolleybus line (1933).
After World War II resources were focused on bus lines and, since the mid-1950s, on the new metro. Milan Metro construction began in 1957 and in 1964 the first line was opened. Five years later the Line 2 was inaugurated.
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