Trondheim Trafikkselskap
| Municipal owned | |
| Industry | Public transport |
| Fate | Merger |
| Successor | Team Trafikk |
| Founded | 28 July 1971 |
| Defunct | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Trondheim, Norway |
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Area served
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Trondheim |
| Products |
Bus operation Trondheim Tramway |
| Parent | Municipality of Trondheim |
Trondheim Trafikkselskap or TT was the city public transport company for Trondheim, Norway between 1974 and 2001. It operated both the city buses, and the Trondheim Tramway until 1988. The company was owned by the city council.
TT was founded in 1972 as a merged between the municipal owned tramway companies Trondheim Sporvei and Graakalbanen, and the bus company Bynesruten. In 1974, the company was reorganized as a municipal agency, and also took over the private bus operator Trondheim Bilruter, along with the city bus lines of Klæburuten and NSB Bilruter. In 2001, the company merged with Hemne og Orkladal Billag to create Team Trafikk, that was later sold to Nettbuss.
Since 1966, the City of Trondheim owned two tramway companies, Trondheim Sporvei and Graakalbanen. In addition, it also owned the majority of the bus company Bynesruten. In 1969, the city council decided to merge the three companies into Trondheim Trafikkselskap, and to organize it as a limited company to limit bureaucratization, and realize effecivization through simpler decision making. The company was formally founded on 28 July 1971, and took over the three other companies on 1 January 1972. Odd Hovdenak, former director of Trondheim Sporvei, was appointed CEO. During the fall of 1972, TT had had to ask the city council for a total of 2.7 million kr in loans to cover operational expenses. The time when public transport in Trondheim could operate with a profit was over. The company lost NOK 3.5 million in its first operative year.
On 30 November 1972, the city council voted to buy Trondheim Bilruter (TBR) as well as the Trondheim division of NSB Biltrafikk, a division of the Norwegian State Railways. Also the routes operated by Klæburuten within the city limits were to be taken over. There had been no effictivizations due to the limited company model, and instead the new TT would be organized as a municipal agency. In 1973, the last year Trondheim Bilruter operated on itself, it lost NOK 880,000. The city had also granted that company a loan. Both it and TT transported about nine million passengers that year. The city paid NOK 9.5 million for TRB, and received 59 Scania CR 76, CR 110 and CR 111 buses bought after 1966, in addition to 25 older models. TRB had eleven routes.
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