Bus

Bus (RATP)
Paris public transport Métro lines line 1 line 7bis line 2 line 8 line 3 line 9 line 3bis line 10 line 4 line 11 line 5 line 12 line 6 line 13 line 7 line 14 RER lines line A line D line B line E line C Suburban rail (Transilien) Saint-Lazare Nord La Défense Est Montparnasse Lyon Airport shuttles CDGVAL Orlyval Bus Bus (RATP) Noctilien   Bus (Optile)   Tramway Tramway T1 Tramway T2 Tramway T3 Tramway T4 Other Montmartre funicular

RATP operates the majority of buses in Paris, and a significant number of lines in its suburbs. Other suburban lines are operated by private operators grouped in a consortium known as Optile (Organisation professionnelle des transports d'Île-de-France).

Route

Bus services which are operated mainly in the city proper of Paris are named with two-digit numbers. Bus services which are operated mainly in the suburbs are named with three-digit numbers.

RATP uses the numbers 20-96 for lines operated mainly in the city proper. The first number represents the terminal:

• 2 representing Gare Saint-Lazare
• 3 representing Gare de l'Est
• 4 representing Gare du Nord
• 5 represents Place de la République
• 7 represents Châtelet
• 8 represents Quartier Latin
• 9 represents Gare Montparnasse

The second number represents the outermost arrondissement:

• 2 represents the 16^th arrondissement
• 3 and 4 represent the 17^th arrondissement.
• 5 represents the 18^th arrondissement and the 19^th arrondissement
• 6 represents the 20^th arrondissement and the 12^tharrondissement
• 7 represents the 13^th arrondissement
• 8 represents the 14^th arrondissement
• 9 represents the 15^th arrondissement.

Bus services

The RATP operates 59 bus lines within the city proper, and 205 bus lines in Paris suburbs. In 2004, 953.6 million journeys were made on RATP bus lines, including 352.2 million journeys on Paris lines and 601.4 million journeys on suburbs lines.

The table below shows routes of RATP lines which are mainly operated within the city proper:

Special services

RATP also operate special services:

• Roissybus (352) : Opéra station - Charles de Gaulle International Airport
• Orlybus (283) : Denfert-Rochereau station – Orly Airport
• TVM : Rungis — Saint-Maur-Créteil
• La Colombe (586) : Fresnes — L'Haÿ-les-Roses — Chevilly-Larue — Rungis
• t-IGR (580) : Villejuif - Louis Aragon — Arcueil - Laplace

Inter urban services

RATP also operate inter-urban services in some municipalities of the banlieue:

Noctilien

In association with Transilien, RATP operates a night bus service branded Noctilien between the hours of 00:30 and 05:30.

External links

• RATP Website with complete maps