| Agency Name: | Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain |
| Formed: | June 1, 2017 |
| Jurisdiction: | Greater Montreal |
| Headquarters: | 700 rue de la Gauchetière, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Budget: | million (2023)[1] |
| Chief1 Name: | Ginette Sylvain [2] |
| Chief1 Position: | chairperson |
| Chief2 Name: | Benoît Gendron [3] |
| Chief2 Position: | CEO |
| Website: | http://www.artm.quebec |
The Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain (ARTM; English: Metropolitan Regional Transportation Authority) is an umbrella organization that manages and integrates road transport and public transport in Greater Montreal in Quebec, Canada. The organization was created by the Government of Quebec on June 1, 2017, replacing the former planning mandate of the Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT).[4] It has assumed other key initiatives including Opus card operation and multiple other projects supporting transit.
In 2017, the AMT was dissolved and replaced by two newly created organizations, the ARTM and the Réseau de transport métropolitain (RTM). Its planning mandate went to the ARTM while the operation of the various commuter rail lines across the Greater Montreal became the responsibility of the RTM. Also known as Exo, the latter also acquired oversight of the public transport agencies of Montreal, Laval, and Longueuil.[5]
The ARTM consists of six appointed chair members from the Montreal Metropolitan Community council and six transit experts appointed by Transports Québec, the provincial transportation authority.[5]
The ARTM is responsible for setting public transit fares in the Greater Montreal area,[6] including fare collection technology and the Opus transit card system.[7] It began work to simplify the fare structre in 2021, with the aim of reducing the number of fare zones and retiring the majority of the 700 different fare types available on the territory.[8]
There are two primary types of fares:
You can buy fares valid for:
Reduced fares are available for children, students over 18, and people aged 65 and over. Children aged 11 and under ride for free.[10]
The fare schedule includes more specific and less flexible fares for individual public transit operators and Exo bus sectors. Paratransit has its own fare schedule for registered users.[11]
The ARTM is progressively implementing a fare system with four zones across its territory, named from A to D.[8]
Prior to July 1, 2021, the ARTM operated 8 zones for train and monthly passes, numbered 1 to 8. Progressively since 2021, fares have been introduced for all modes of transit using combinations of A, AB, ABC and ABCD, and for buses within ABC as well as between C and D.[8]
As of the fare schedule of July 1, 2024, only train-specific and certain municipalities use the old zones.[12] Public transit authorities operating in the ARTM territory new fares in the transit agencies operating within the ARTM territory.
In 2018, the ARTM gave the Société de transport de Montréal the mandate to develop standards for a harmonized metropolitan signage for public transit agencies to use, based on their recent revision to signage of the Montreal Metro.[13] In July 2023, the ARTM unveiled its updated metropolitan transit network map, in time for the inauguration of the first branch of the REM.[14]
See main article: ARTM park and ride lots.
The ARTM also is responsible for all Park and ride lots in the Greater Montreal region. It runs 61 park-and-ride lots,[15] many that are connected to either metropolitan bus terminuses, STM Metro stations, or Exo commuter rail stations.
In addition, the agency also organizes carpooling, offering unloading spaces near public transit services in several of its park-and-ride lots, which allow for transfers to the bus, Metro or commuter train.[16]
The ARTM is undertaking several major projects: