Izmir Metropolitan Municipality received financing from the EBRD to purchase 85 light rail train (LRT) carriages to be operated by the municipal public transport company, Izmir Metro A.Ş. The Project intended to promote the commercialisation of Izmir Metro operations by introducing key performance indicators (KPIs), outsourcing of certain activities of Izmir Metro, and taking advantages of certain retail opportunities around major (and new additional) stations of the network.
