MP 14 (Paris Metro)

The MP 14, Métro Pneu appel d'offres de 2014, meaning rubber-tyred metro ordered in 2014, is a rubber-tyred electric multiple unit for the Paris Metro, manufactured by Alstom as part of the Alstom Metropolis family of units. It is the seventh generation of the rubber-tyred class of trains used on the system and is used on Line 4, Line 11 and Line 14, and in the future trains could be ordered for Line 1 and Line 6. The automated, driverless version started entering service on Line 14 in 2020 and on Line 4 in 2022, and a manually operated version started entering service on Line 11 in June 2023. In January 2015 RATP awarded the framework contract for the MP 14 trains to Alstom at an overall cost of 2 billion euros, with an initial order of 35 eight-car fully automated trains for Line 14 costing around 500 million euros; 20 six-car automated trains for Line 4 followed in December 2016, 20 five-car manually driven trains for Line 11 in February 2018 and 19 more trains for Line 11 in July 2021. In 2019 the first MP 14 was delivered to the RATP and was first tested on Line 1, as the northern section and new workshop of Line 14 had not been completed.