Editing Cambrai (section)

===Urban transport===
[[File:LL 67 - CAMBRAI - La Grand'Place - Station des Tramways.JPG|thumb|right|The tramway in 1905, in the main square]]

By 1897, that is, upon completion of the demolition of the fortifications, the city had considered the construction of electric [[tram]] lines. It was a very modern solution for the time, since electric traction only appeared in 1881 and the development of this mode of transport didn't truly occur until 1895 in Paris and the Paris region. In 1903, the network of the {{Interlanguage link multi|Tramway of Cambrai|fr|3=Tramway de Cambrai|lt=Compagnie des tramways de Cambrai}} was opened, {{convert|16|km}}<ref group=b>p.243</ref> and with five lines.<ref>
{{cite web| url = http://www.trains-fr.org/facs/lig59.htm| title = Les Chemins de Fer Secondaires de France| date = 19 November 2009| work = Fédération des amis des chemins de fer secondaires| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140311234308/http://www.trains-fr.org/facs/lig59.htm| archive-date = 11 March 2014}}</ref> After World War I, the uneconomic network was not recommissioned.<ref group=a>p.59</ref>

Since 1933 the agglomeration of Cambrai has been served by a {{Interlanguage link multi|Public transport of Cambrai|fr|3=Transports en commun de Cambrai|lt=network of buses}}, five urban routes were operating in 2010, run by CFC (Railways of Cambrésis):

*A: Luxembourg – Cambrai stations – [[Escaudœuvres]]
*B: [[Neuville-Saint-Rémy]] – Cambrai stations – ZAC Cambrai-South
*C: Les Martigues-Pyrénées – Cambrai stations – [[Raillencourt-Sainte-Olle]]
*D: Cambrai stations – Raillencourt-Sainte-Olle
*E: ZAC Cambrai-South – Cambrai stations

Since 7 January 2013, the agglomeration community of Cambrai has implemented a free shuttle which serves seventeen stops around the city.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/cambrai-mise-en-place-de-navettes-gratuites-ia13b0n943597| title = Cambrai : mise en place de navettes gratuites| date = 7 January 2013| work = La Voix du Nord| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140523021242/http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/cambrai-mise-en-place-de-navettes-gratuites-ia13b0n943597| archive-date = 23 May 2014}}</ref>

In 2008, the "Urban Transport Perimeter" (PTU) of Cambrai which, with 59,326 inhabitants, is the smallest of the twelve PTU of the [[Nord-Pas-de-Calais]] region had completed about {{convert|400,000|km|mi}} per year, corresponding to 740,000 journeys.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.agglo-cambrai.fr/fr/vie-communautaire/transports/transports-collectifs.html| title = Transports collectifs| date = 2008| work = Communauté d'Agglomération de Cambrai| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100630172145/http://www.agglo-cambrai.fr/fr/vie-communautaire/transports/transports-collectifs.html| archive-date = 2010-06-30}}</ref>

The agglomeration community of Cambrai is the organising authority of urban transport. However, while it has twenty-three communes, only six were served by urban transport in 2006. For other towns and cities, the urban community has delegated jurisdiction to the department.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://mappemonde.mgm.fr/num23/articles/art09305.html| title = Transports publics et recompositions territoriales dans le Nord-Pas-de-Calais| date = March 2008| work =M@ppemonde}}</ref>

In a relatively sparsely populated agglomeration with little extensive public transport, it cannot easily compete with the automobile. Nevertheless, the agglomeration community of Cambrai reflects on the future of urban transport from a perspective of [[sustainable development]], with aims to strengthen the supply of public transport in order to capture a portion of travel by private car, and reducing car traffic and CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. The realisation of the new [[multimodal transport]] hub in the quarter of the railway station of Cambrai is part of this policy.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.agglo-cambrai.fr/fr/vie-communautaire/transports/perspectives-devolution-du-reseau-de-transport-urbain.html| title = Les perspectives d'évolution du réseau de transport urbain| year = 2008| publisher = Communauté d'Agglomération de Cambrai| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://archive.today/20100529181447/http://www.agglo-cambrai.fr/fr/vie-communautaire/transports/perspectives-devolution-du-reseau-de-transport-urbain.html| archive-date = 2010-05-29}}</ref>