Amt and Aptv history
ATV is a new company; it was created in 2007, after a "historical" process of rationalization of the Veronese public transport which had developed over 30 years; a process which was felt as necessary by the citizens and by the Municipality and the Province of Verona, and by which a single company of public transport ATV was formed by the fusion of the two Veronese historical public transport companies: AMT and APTV.
The main steps of Veronese public transport service, from its start, through its subsequent development, until the recent formation of a single company: ATV
Urban public transport in Verona
1884: inauguration day of first streetcar with horses. The municipality of Verona entrusts the service to an Italo-Belgian company |
1889: advertisement first appears on streetcar vehicles |
1906: agreement between the municipality of Verona and a Belgian society for the construction and management of an electric streetcar network. At the international fair of Milan the first buses are presented |
1908: start of the service with electric streetcars. |
1909: development of the network |
1913: double track system |
1914: launch of the electric streetcar Verona-Avesa |
1919: end of the Italo-Belgian management. The Municipality is in charge of the city's streetcars |
1920: the first experimental electric vehicles fueled by batteries first appear on the market |
1924: the transport company orders new vehicles |
1926: the network extends to the village of Montorio. Launch of street lines (on tyres) to Cadidavid, S. Massimo and Chievo. |
1927: the network extends to the village of S. Michele |
1935: the management of public transport is assigned to Saer |
1937: launch of the first trolleybus network between the train stations of Porta Vescovo and Porta Nuova |
1941: the funicular railway of Castel S. Pietro is operative |
1944: end of the funicular railway service |
1948: the public transport service is carried out by military vehicles |
1958: end of the last trackline |
1955: end of the cooperation between Saer and the Municipality of Verona. The Municipal Company for Transport is created and it takes charge of the service. |
1956: AMT starts its activity |
1957: start of the "single fare" ticket |
1964: the fare increases by 45% but afterwards it remained unchanged until 1976, despite the 84% increase in the inflation rate. Start of the first experiments for the automatic ticket issue. |
1968: AMT is temporarily in charge of the service for the removal of illegally parked vehicles |
1971: the vehicles change colour from green to orange |
1972: beginning of automatic validation of tickets on board. Amt starts to take care of the image of the company: establishment of rules on the personnel's clothes |
1973: the first bus lanes are created and the first radiotelephones are put on board |
1974: end of the trolleybus service for buses. The ticket collector are no longer needed and the "single provider" service starts |
1976: creation of the first cumulative ticket AMT APT for the use of Public transport in the territory of the municipality and of the province of Verona. |
1981: the framework law 151 for the reorganization of public transport comes into force |
1982: AMT adopts the first special vehicles for accessible transport |
1983: end of the electric system network. Start of the reorganization process of fares and creation of the first one-hour ticket |
1984: creation of the daily tourist ticket |
1988: AMT adopts the "Pollicini" (literally, Tom Thumbs); smaller vehicles, suitable for the public transport service in the historical city centre |
1990: the company presents its first project for the tram lines for over-ground transport |
1995: AMT, by means of the reorganization of the network and the optimization of resources, ends the financial year in profit. |
1996: the company passes from being municipal to being "azienda speciale" |
1997: the legislative degree 422/97 is issued, also called "Burlando decree" on the assignment to regions and local institutions of functions in the field of public transport |
1998: the Region Veneto issues the law 25/98 which establishes new rules on local public transport. AMT creates an Ltd of private law and takes charge of the complete service for accessible transport for tourism of the city. Start of the double fuel "methane/oil" on the vehicles. |
2000: creation of the AMT website |