The city of Strasbourg has almost 300,000 inhabitants and is located on the Rhine river, which also forms the border with Germany. The tram was abandoned in in 1960, but it was reintroduced in 1994. Since then, the tram network is being constantly extended. Today it has a route length of more than 40 kilometres served by six lines. In 2017, even a cross-border line to the neighbouring German city of Kehl was inaugurated.

It is operated by → CTS (Compagnie des transports strasbourgeois).