Carris (''Companhia Carris de Ferro de Lisboa'') (Lisbon Tramways Company) is a

public transport Public transport (also known as public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) are forms of transport available to the general public. It typically uses a fixed schedule, route and charges a fixed fare. There is no rigid definition of whic ...

ation company in

Lisbon Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainlan ...

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...

. Carris operates Lisbon's

bus A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a motor vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but fewer than the average rail transport. It is most commonly used ...

es,

tram A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which Rolling stock, vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some ...

s, and

funicular A funicular ( ) is a type of cable railway system that connects points along a railway track laid on a steep grade (slope), slope. The system is characterized by two counterbalanced carriages (also called cars or trains) permanently attached to ...

s. It does not operate the

Lisbon Metro The Lisbon Metro () is a rapid transit system in Lisbon, Portugal. Opened in December 1959, it was the first rapid transit system in Portugal. , the system's four lines total of route and serve 56 stations. History Initial plans The idea ...

. Carris was founded September 18, 1872. A total of 140.6 million passenger boardings were recorded in 2017. As of September 20, 2021, Carris employed 2,588 individuals, with 1,285 bus drivers and 152 tram drivers. The company operated 724 buses, 48 trams, three funiculars (

Elevador do Lavra The Elevador do Lavra, also known as the Ascensor do Lavra or Lavra Funicular, is a funicular railway in Lisbon, Portugal. Opened in 1884, the railway is the oldest funicular in the city. The 188m-long funicular connects Largo da Anunciada to R ...

, Elevador da Glória and

Elevador da Bica The Bica Funicular (), sometimes known as the ''Elevador da Bica'' (''Bica Elevator, Lift''), is a funicular railway line in the Freguesia (Portugal), civil parish of Misericórdia (Lisbon), Misericórdia, in the Concelho, municipality of Lisbon, ...

), and an

elevator An elevator (American English) or lift (Commonwealth English) is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels. They are typically powered by electric motors that drive traction cables and counterweight systems suc ...

(the

Santa Justa lift The Santa Justa Lift (, ), also called Carmo Lift (, ), is an elevator, or lift, in the civil parish of Santa Maria Maior, in the historic center of Lisbon, Portugal. Situated at the end of ''Rua de Santa Justa'', it connects the lower streets o ...

). The last four were designed by the engineer

Raoul Mesnier du Ponsard Raoul Mesnier du Ponsard (São Nicolau (Porto), São Nicolau, Porto, 2 April 1848 — Inhambane, Mozambique 26 May 1914) was a Portuguese engineer of French parentage, known for building many elevators and funiculars in Portugal. He is particula ...

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Carris website

Carris website (English version)
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Personal website about history buses and trams of Carris
1872 establishments in Portugal Transport in Lisbon Tram transport in Portugal Government-owned transport companies Government-owned companies of Portugal {{tram-stub

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