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	Prague Trams Dopravní podnik hlavnívo města Prahy (DPP) Page 2: Tatra T3 Trams All images link to larger copies which will open in a new window/tab This page is under construction!
	This page gives an overview of tram designs which have run in Praha/Prague. More detailed pages on recent tram designs are linked below. Founded in 1931, Azienda Trasporti Milanesi is a Public Limited Company owned by the Milan Municipality which manages public transport in the Lombard capital and in 46 provincial towns, serving an area with a population of 2.4 million people. It operates 18 tram lines, run with Peter Witt streetcars from the 1920s, Stanga trams from the 1950s and more modern classes. There are also 72 urban Bus lines, 4 Trolleybus lines, 35 interurban Bus lines, 4 Metro lines (Metropolitana di Milano) and one surviving interurban tramway, carrying over 734 million passengers in 2010.

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The Prague tramway network is the largest such network in the Czech Republic, consisting of 142.4 km (88.5 mi) of track, 931 trams, and 21 daytime routes and 9 night routes with a total route length of 518 km (322 mi). It is operated by Dopravní podnik hlavního města Prahy a.s. (DPP), a company owned by the City of Prague. The Prague tram system (including the Petřín funicular) served 324.2 million passengers in 2012, up from 312.9 million passengers in 2011.[ Prague's first horse tram line was opened in 1875, and the first electric tram ran in 1891.

The Prague public transport company has currently available for standard operations a sizable fleet of 968 trams of varying types, ranging from the classic Tatra T3 cars to the modern Škoda 15 T low-floor trams. These trams are distributed across seven depots across the city. Besides these, the company owns also a fleet of heritage streetcars kept within the transport museum and several trams especially equipped for use for driver training or snow-ploughing, bringing the total number of vehicles to over 1000.

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The various modifications of the Tatra T3 tram cars, which are common all over the former Eastern bloc, form the bulk of the fleet, since they were produced in Prague in large numbers for both domestic use and export. More than half of the classic streetcars have undergone modernization during the first ten years of the 21st century, which equipped them with new motors and electrical equipment, new audiovisual information system for the passengers and refurbished interiors. The renovated trams were named Tatra T3R.P, where R stands for Renovated and P for the used electrical equipment.

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