Editing Utrecht (section)

====Light rail====
The [[Utrecht sneltram]] is a [[light rail]] system with three routes connecting Utrecht Centraal railway station to the suburbs of [[IJsselstein]] and [[Nieuwegein]] and to the [[Uithof]] district. The sneltram began operations in 1983 and is currently operated under the U-OV brand by the private transport company [[Qbuzz]]. The system has a total length 18.3 km and 54 trainsets. It carried over 9 million riders in 2023.<ref name="TD-2024-06-19">{{cite web |url=https://www.transdev.com/en/press-release/transdev-wins-urban-transportation-contract-in-utrecht-netherlands/ |date=19 June 2024 |title=Transdev wins urban transportation contract in Utrecht (Netherlands) |archive-date=7 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241107123218/https://www.transdev.com/en/press-release/transdev-wins-urban-transportation-contract-in-utrecht-netherlands/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Utrecht is the only city among the four largest in the Netherlands (the others being Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam) that awards a public transportation concession by tender. Qbuzz will hold that concession until December 2025 after which [[Transdev]] will take it over until 2035.<ref name="TD-2024-06-19" />