The Barcelona Metropolitan Transport, or ''Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona'' (TMB) in Catalan, is the main

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operator in

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

. A combination of two formerly-separate companies, ''Ferrocarril Metropolità de Barcelona, SA.'' and ''Transports de Barcelona, SA.'', it runs most of the metro and local bus lines in Barcelona and the metropolitan area. The

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network serves

and the metropolitan area through 109 lines that cover a total distance of 920.62 kilometres. The

Barcelona Metro The Barcelona Metro (Catalan language, Catalan and Spanish language, Spanish: ) is a rapid transit network that runs mostly underground in central Barcelona and into the city's suburbs. It is part of the larger public transport system ...

network has 123 stations. It is formed by six lines and a

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railway. In 2016, TMB carried 578.75 million passengers and had 7,744 employees.Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona http://www.tmb.cat/en/transports-en-xifres There is also an authority in Barcelona that seeks to coordinate and integrate other public transport companies (such as

TRAMMET Tramvia Metropolità, SA (TramMet) is a company based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It's a joint venture of the companies FCC-Vivendi, COMSA, Acciona-Necso, Alstom, Sarbus, Soler&Sauret, Banc Sabadell and Société Générale. It was crea ...

, for the local trams) into the same network,

Autoritat del Transport Metropolità The Metropolitan Transport Authority (, ATM) is a public consortium intended to coordinate the operation and project the expansion of the public transport system in the Barcelona metropolitan area. It is made up of the Government of Catalonia a ...

Logo history

TMB changed its logo in 2014 after introducing a stencil-style variant of

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for their publicity. File:Antic Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona.svg, alt=First TMB logo, First logo (1983–2002) File:Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (logo).svg, alt=Second TMB logo, Second and current logo (since 2002, still in use officially) File:Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (2014 logo).svg, alt=Third TMB logo, Third logo (2014–15)

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