RATP Dev Transdev Asia
| Joint Venture | |
| Industry | Public transport |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters |
Whitty Street Tram Depot, Connaught Road West, Western District Hong Kong, China |
| Owner |
RATP Dev (50%) Transdev (50%) |
| Subsidiaries | Hong Kong Tramways (100%) |
| Website | www |
RATP Dev Transdev Asia (RDTA) is a 50/50 joint venture owned by RATP Dev and Transdev that operates public transport services in Asia.
The joint venture was also known by a variety of different names in the past, such as Veolia Transport RATP Asia (VTRA), Veolia Transport China Limited (VTCL), Veolia Transport RATP and Transdev RATPDev (see section Company names).
Its headquarters are in Hong Kong, at the Whitty Street Tram Depot, which is one of the depots of its wholly owned subsidiary Hong Kong Tramways.
RDTA operates:
VTRA also owned Reolian as a joint venture with HN Group, a company in Macau. Reolian operated buses in Macau since August 2011 until July 2014, after the company filed for bankruptcy in October 2013. The company is now replaced by , known as Macau New Era Public Bus in English.
The joint venture was established in 2009 between Veolia Transport and RATP Dev and was originally named "Veolia Transport RATP Asia (VTRA)".
Prior to establishment VTRA, Veolia Transport already existed in China under the name "Veolia Transport China Limited (VTCL)", and had a joint venture with Nanjing Zhongbei to operate buses in China since September 2008. This joint venture later was continued between VTRA and Nanjing Zhongbei and continues to operate buses in Anqing, China. Veolia Transport later merged with old Transdev in 2011 to form Veolia Transdev, which subsequently rebranded to just Transdev in July 2013.
Due to the Veolia Transdev merger and the rebranding to just Transdev, the joint venture did not have a fixed name (its name had always been the parent companies' names put together). As a result, it was referred to by a variety of names. It was not until the creation of the RDTA website in 2017 that confirmed the name of the joint venture to be RDTA.
Even after the establishment of VTRA, "Veolia Transport China Limited (VTCL)" was mentioned in an April 2015 version of the Hong Kong Tramways website. The website was revamped later that year and now refers the joint venture by its current name. The VTCL name was never mentioned in Transdev, RATP or the old VTRA websites.
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