Oslo Sporveier

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Oslo Sporveier, or Sporveien, is the municipal transit authority of Oslo, Norway, owned by the city of Oslo. In 2003, the company had 2,365 employees, and transported its 160 million passengers 710 million kilometres.

Sporveien owns and operates the city's rapid transit infrastructure like the metro and the tram networks, as well as most inner-city bus and ferry links.

There are currently major revisions to the infrastructure, paid in part by the city's surrounding toll roads in addition to public funding[1], upgrading the metro system for NOK 7 billion, known as the MetrOslo project. A new RFID ticketing system with automatic turnstile barriers will (after major delays) be introduced in the beginning of 2007, and there will be a major upgrade of the rolling stock with new metrotrains from Siemens in Austria and Germany, which will be delivered between 2007 and 2010.