This collective work tells the story of the French tram adventure by tracing its origins, developments, successes, but also the failures, limitations, and difficulties encountered by the advocates of what is now considered a fully-fledged mode of transport.
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It sheds light on the processes — and the many actors — that contributed to the "return" of the tram in major French cities over the past forty years, but which also led to the export of the "standard French tram" to numerous cities abroad.
The 1970s are often regarded as the origin of a renewed interest in public transport, but how did the "tram solution" gradually (re)gain credibility in the eyes of elected officials, experts, and transport professionals? What issues fuelled the controversies that arose at local, national, and international levels? Which actors facilitated its return to favour? What drove the technical options chosen? How did urban planning policies benefit from these new transport projects? What professional logics underpinned the implementation and operation of these new tram lines?
To answer these many questions, this book — prepared under the scientific direction of Rails et Histoire — brings together the views of key witnesses (architects, town planners, engineers, experts) and the perspectives of researchers (geographers, political scientists, historians, sociologists, economists) among the leading specialists in cities and urban transport.
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