Cotral SpA (In Italian: Compagnia Trasporti Laziali or Lazio Transport Company) is a limited company which runs suburban and inter-urban public transport services in the Lazio region of Italy.
Cotral connects all the municipalities of Lazio - excluding the island municipalities of Ponza and Ventotene - and with a total of over 8,000 daily trips.[1] Together with ATAC and Trenitalia, it participates in the Metrebus integrated fare system.[2]
History
Founded in 1976 through the merger of regional public transport operators in Lazio, Cotral inherited from one of these, STEFER, the management of the Rome metro, the concession railways Rome-Lido, Rome-Civita Castellana-Viterbo, and Rome-Fiuggi-Frosinone, as well as the tramways of the Castelli Romani.
In 2000, the management of the metro-rail system was separated from the original company with the creation of Met.Ro. (later merged into ATAC