The planned second line consists of 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) of tracks with a budget of 1.9 billion Danish krone.

[needs update] The tramway in Odense was suggested for the first time in 2008 by the then mayor, the late Jan Boye.

Since then Odense Municipality and the Region of Southern Denmark have been working on the project, which was unanimously backed up by the city council.

The team will create a design coherence of the tramway line's first stage of 14.5 kilometres (9.0 mi) and be responsible for its integration of the light rail in the existing urban environment.

[2] In March 2015, Parsons Brinckerhoff won the contract for project management, and strategic and economic advice.

The work commenced in August 2017 and construction of new roads, bike lanes, and pavements continued until spring 2019.

The Spanish company COMSA was the contractor for this part of the project, collaborating with their sub-contractors Munck (Denmark), EFACEC (Portugal) and IDOM (Spain).