1847

The first form of public transport in Iasi is mentioned in various documents – two stagecoaches with a capacity of 14-16 people which connected the city centre with the new National Theatre in Copou, one on Ulita Mare street (currently, Stefan cel Mare boulevard), the other one on Ulita Golia (currently, Cuza Voda street)

1897

On the 18^th of September the auction regarding the concession of the production and usage of the electric tram in Iasi throughout 40 years, simultaneously developed with the one for the public lighting. 

1898

On the 9^th of March, King Carol I signed the law 713 for the concession of the Iasi tram based on which, on the 31^st of March, the contract between Iasi City Hall and Allgemeine Elektrizitäts Gesellschaft (AEG) from Berlin was signed in order to develop the electric tram transport in Iasi. The Iasi Electric Tram Office was founded in the same year, starting the works for building the infrastructure and the depot. We consider the date of the 9^th of March 1898 as being the official opening moment for the Iasi public transport, taking into account the many implications for the city’s development from the day of the King’s decision. 

1900

On the 1^st of March the first tram route started to function, from the Central Railway Station to the Central market (Hala). The routes from Pacurari, Socola, Nicolina, Copou and to the Slaughterhouse were also inaugurated. The use of the electric tram in Iasi started with 16 passenger wagons made in Nuremberg, their number growing in 1914-1915 (one could find, in an inventory from 1922, the existence of a park of 35 passenger wagons, a snow cleaning wagon and 3 non-motorised platform wagons for material transport)

1901

The Sararie route was inaugurated, thus the Iasi tram network being completed, with 4 routes and a length of 17,3 km, placing it at the top of the five cities in the country which have inaugurated electric tram transport systems between 1894 and 1901. The first major intervention in the network’s structure was made in 1958, when the Nicolina route was cancelled.

1916

By royal decree, on the 16^th of August the entire inventory of the Iasi Electric Tram Office passed onto the administration of the Romanian state, after Romania’s participation in the war along with the Entente powers (Germany became an enemy country and its assets from Romanian territory were seized). Representatives of the local authorities were named as leaders of the Iasi enterprise and, in the municipality documents, one can find it named as the Electric Tram Service.

1920

The Electric Factory and the trams were passed onto the administration of the Iasi City Hall, the documents issued in that period bearing the common heading of the electric and tram factory under the name of the Service for lighting, tram and driving force.

1923

The two factories were passed onto exclusive administration of the Iasi City Hall on the 28^th of June.

1924

On the 8^th of June, the Iasi Communal Council establishes the Communal Company for Electricity Iasi (SCEI).

1929-1938

14 wagons were built in the workshops, based on the projects of the engineers Huhulea and Dorogan.

1929

SCEI purchased two Chevrolet buses from Leonida company, the representative for Romania of the American company General Motors, this being the debut of bus usage in Iasi. The number of buses rose to 5 in 1935 and the documents show the existence of a single vehicle in 1943.

1944-1945

The Second World War period and the one following it were extremely difficult for the city due to the massive destructions and lacks. The Iasi City Hall tried to reorganise and maintain functional the services regarding electricity, trams, water, sewage and sanitation. On the 26^th of June 1944 the trams were taken over by the Iasi Municipal Enterprises (IMI), which were reorganised on the 1^st of September as services, moment when the Communal Service for Electricity – Trams was founded. This service turned into the Communal Enterprise for Electricity and Trams (ICET) on the 1^st of October 1945. 

1948-1949

Along with the reunification of the municipal services, the name of the Iasi Municipal Enterprises – Electricity, Trams, Water, Sewage and Sanitation was adopted on the 1^st of January 1948. The name was changed on the 20^th of May 1949 into the Iasi Communal Enterprises – Electricity, Trams, Water, Sewage and Sanitation.

1954

The bus transport was reintroduced after the interruption caused by the war.

1956

ETACS turned into ETAC on the 1^st of March, after the sanitation services separated from the enterprise.

1956

ETAC introduced the taxi services.

1957

The Communal Enterprise for Electricity and Transport (ICET) was founded on the 1^st of May, after the water-sewage services separated from the enterprise.

1958-1970

This period was dominated by important city works and by the building of the huge industrial platform from the eastern part of the city, the public transport having to adjust to the new requirements. The tram network suffered major changes, certain routes being cancelled (Pacurari, Nicolina, Socola, Dimitrov-Piata Unirii) and other being established (Banu, Padurii, Zona Industriala). The number of bus routes has also registered a considerable growth. New transport means were also purchased in order to pick up the high number of passengers who became city citizens once the city was highly industrialised and thus, the rectifier stations S1 (1965) and S2 (1967) were put into use in order to help the tram power network cope with the high use.  

1961

On the 1^st of July the electric plant was separated from the one of the trams’ and passed under the leadership of the Ministry of Mines and Electric Energy, under the name of the Iasi Regional Electricity Enterprise (IRE). The public transport was reorganised under an independent enterprise – Iasi Transport Enterprise (ITI). 

1969

On the 31^st of March the bus base from the city exit to Holboca (Aurel Vlaicu street) was put into use.

1970-1978

The 70s were marked by various preparations for purchasing and placing into use a considerable number of new, modern trams, made in Czechoslovakia. The negotiations, both at a ministry and local level, were long, finalising in 1977, with the contract for buying 70 Tatra T4R trams from the ČKD factory in Prague. Other investments also had to be made for the garaging, maintenance and placing into use in good conditions of these trams, such as: reorganising the depot (the maintenance and usage base on Uzinei street was put into use in 1976, with a warehouse and newly built maintenance and repair workshops), moving the tram line from Ion Creanga street to Vasile Lupu street, rehabilitating the tracks in many areas of the city, building new rectifier stations. Also, this was the time when the most picturesque Iasi tram route was cancelled, the one on Sararie street, moment when the last locally built trams from the interwar period were withdrawn (known by the citizens of Iasi as “the Sararie trams”). The bus transport system was also not neglected, new vehicles being purchased for the city routes and for the ones linking bordering localities. The buses were moved in 1977 into the new bus base in Tudor Vladimirescu, the one on Aurel Vlaicu street being given to the Auto Transport Enterprise (ITA).    

1973

On the 1^st of September, ITI became the Public Transport Enterprise (ITC).

1978

Ticket punching was set into use.

1979-1989

The city radically transformed, housing neighbourhoods (especially for workers) appeared and many works of public interest were developed. New tram routes were developed in order to ensure the transport between neighbourhoods and the industrial platforms (Podu de Piatra - Podu Ros, Podu de Piatra - Alexandru cel Bun - Dacia, Tatarasi - Metalurgie, Podu de Piatra – Central Train station, Central Train station - Canta, Abator - Dancu, Elena Doamna - Tudor Vladimirescu - Mase Plastice, Podu Ros - C.U.G., Arcu street, Podu de Piatra - International Train station - Tesatura) and new transport means were set into use (Tatra T4R and Timis II trams).

1979

On the 1^st of November the auto parks for local or in-house use of the institutions belonging to the ministries, other central institutions and county managements were centred, by State Council decree, within certain enterprises or other organised transport units. Following this decree, the enterprise extended its activity throughout the entire Iasi county, becoming the Iasi Local Transport County Enterprise (IJTL). Bus bases for passenger, merchandise and mixed transport were built in Iasi, Pascani and Harlau.

1983

The maintenance base for trams and buses from Dacia was set into use.

1985

On the 1^st of May, the first trolleybus route in Iasi was set into use, from Piata Independentei to Pacurari. Afterwards, the trolleybus transport network extended, coming close to length of the tram one (the necessary infrastructure was built on the routes: Piata Independentei - Tudor Vladimirescu - Pasaj Socola, Pasaj Socola - Bucium, Pasaj Socola - C.U.G./Hlincea, Piata Dacia - C.U.G., Piata Alexandru cel Bun - Podu de Piatra - Podu Ros - Splai Bahlui - Tatarasi - Ciurchi, Piata Eminescu - Copou, Elena Doamna - Podu Ros - C.U.G.).

1986

The small capacity rapid transit transport (maxi taxi) was set up.

1990

By a decision of the Iasi Prefecture, on the 7^th of December, IJTL was divided into a series of enterprises in Iasi and Pascani, and the Public Transport Administration (RATC) took over all the assets of the public transport in the municipality of Iasi and the bordering communes. The taxi transport was separated from the public transport and kept on working within the Taxicom trading company.

2002

On the 2^nd of September, RATC was divided into the Public Electric Transport Administration (RATEC), for the tram and trolleybus transport and SC Autobuzul SA, company having as sole shareholder the municipality of Iasi, for the bus transport.

2003-2010

Through an agreement between the municipality of Iasi and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) within the Swiss Confederation Government financial assistance for providing second hand trams and a big range of equipments for the maintenance of the public transport means was offered.

2004

The division of the electric transport from the auto one did not produce the expected results, so the Iasi Public Transport Administration (RATP), authorised to carry out public transport using buses, as well.

2006-2007

SC Autobuzul SA was merged by absorption with RATP.

2006

The use of trolleybuses was abandoned in the Iasi public transport.

2008-2013

The CIVITAS ARCHIMEDES project took place, in partnership with various European cities, for an efficient urban transport by applying certain innovative measures which show the capacity of saving energy.

2008-2022

Within certain important projects, the infrastructure of over 75% of the tram network was rehabilitated, benefiting from various financing sources: a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), bank loans, PHARE grants, European Union Structural Funds and the municipality’s funds.

2013

The Iasi Public Transport Company is founded, in order to take over the public transport service in case of the RATP’s bankruptcy because of the difficult financial situation. 

2014

RATP became insolvent.

2016

The Iasi Public Transport Administration (RATP) was declared bankrupt.

2016

On the 1^st of October the Iasi public transport service was taken over by the Iasi Public Transport Company (CTP).

2016-2018

100 new buses were purchased with financing from the municipality’s funds and an EBRD loan.

2018

A new, modern fare system was adopted, based on the area prices and the transfer from a route to another without any additional costs, by using the tickets with a certain time of validity and the subscriptions valid on all routes.

2018-2019

Passengers were offered electronic ways of payment – online, using the mobile phone and, inside the transport means, by using the bank card.

2019

The Iasi Museum of Public Transport was founded, along with the inauguration of the sector dedicated to buses and trolleybuses, on the occasion of the 90^th anniversary from the first circulation of buses in Iasi.

2021-2024

New generation trams were put into service (Pesa Swing 122NaJ and Bozankaya), purchased with EU funds (32 vehicles).