STIB/MIVB
The Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles (STIB)/Maatschappij (http://www.stib.irisnet.be) voor het Intercommunaal Vervoer te Brussel (MIVB) is the leading urban public transport company in Belgium. Its activities extend over the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, as well as ten other municipalities in the suburbs. It serves a surfacearea of 241.5 km2 and helps a population of more than 1 100 000 inhabitants to move round. The STIB-MIVB's network of routes is 450 km long in total. Three metro lines, fifteen tramways above and below ground and some forty bus lines provide uninterrupted service 365 days a year, 20 hours a day.
Originally set up with private capital and gradually augmented with capital from the public sector, the STIB-MIVB today is a publicly-owned regional company, linked to the Région de Bruxelles-Capitale or Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest through a management contract. In order to operate its tramway network under the best possible conditions, the STIBMIVB regularly maintains more than 300 km of track, sleepers, switch-points and diamond "frogs", as well as the overhead contact lines, their suspension cables and grips, wall fixings and isolators. The programme of track renovation and equipping of stopping-areas, platforms and separate bus lanes - under way since the institutional reform - is supported by Brussels-Capital region. STIB will perform tasks in the field of supplying assistance for design of solutions and for field testing in their tram network. The person who will be responsible is Mr. André Marqueteeken, Chief Engineer.