Paris Travel Guide - HTML5

on information panels in the station, but the easiest and fastest way is often to check the information screens along the platforms.

Tip:

 Download a copy of the metro plan to your mobile device, so you can check direction, line numbers and end points at leisure.

Tickets in general

RATP is responsible for public transport including metro, buses, and some of the high speed inter-urban trains (RER). The rest of the RER is operated by SNCF. However, both companies take the same tickets, so the difference is of little interest for most people except in case of strikes (RATP may strike without SNCF doing so or the other way round).