The story
A precursor of the TPC was the Transports Publics du Chablais Operating Community (French: a Communauté d'exploitation des Transports Publics du Chablais), which was formed in 1975 to improve coordination between various companies in the Chablais region. Three railways were involved at first:
Chemin de fer Aigle-Leysin (AL)
Chemin de fer Aigle-Sépey-Diablerets (ASD)
Chemin de fer Bex-Villars-Bretaye (BVB)
A fourth, the Chemin de fer Aigle-Ollon-Monthey-Champéry (AOM), joined in 1977. The four companies merged on 1 January 1999.
The TPC has also developed its bus lines by operating several of these at the request of local authorities: Tonkin bus service (Aigle-Vionnaz-St. Gingolph), Aigle-Villeneuve bus service as part of the Réseau Express Vaudois commuter system, municipal bus service in Aigle, and the Bex-Monthey bus line in partnership with PostBus.
From Wikipedia’s article on Transports Publics du Chablais, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
