About CAT
CAT gets people moving around Savannah. Our transit services bring hard-working commuters to their jobs, students to their schools, and fun-seekers to entertainment, shopping areas, and restaurants. We provide mobility to residents of the city as well as to large numbers of tourists, taking them to and from their hotels to historical neighborhoods and countless attractions.
On behalf of CAT and reporting to the elected CAT Board of Directors, Veolia Transportation manages all day-to-day aspects of the transit agency. The company handles the details of operations, safety issues, vehicle maintenance, customer care, route design and scheduling, human resources, administration, ridership growth, capital planning, and grant administration.
Veolia manages transit systems at over 200 locations in the U.S. and Canada, providing bus, rail, paratransit, shuttle, sedan and taxi services. Veolia locations include Boston, where it has operated the suburban commuter rail line for over eight years, and New Orleans, where it helped reestablish the municipal bus service after it was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Other Veolia-operated systems include Denver, San Diego, Baltimore, Phoenix, and suburban systems surrounding Washington, DC, Atlanta and Toronto.
Under this “public-private operating partnership” arrangement, Chatham County continues to own the buses and equipment, depots, offices and other infrastructure, while Veolia operates the system on a day-to-day basis. While Veolia will be guided by “best practices” available to manage the transportation system, the County and its elected Board of Directors will retain ultimate policy control over fare structure and service levels.