DB ZugBus regional transport Alb-Bodensee

DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee GmbH (RAB)
Basic information
Company headquarters	Ulm
Web presence	www.bahn.de/rab
owner	DB Regio AG
Managing directors	Andreas Pfingst (speaker), Martin Selig, Dieter Unseld
Employee	1215
Lines
railroad	16
bus	140
number of vehicles
Locomotives	33
Railcar	149
Omnibuses	234
statistics
Passengers	75 million
Mileage	45 million km per year
Catchment area	10,500 km²
Residents in the catchment area	1.75 million
Length of line network
Railway lines	950 km
Bus routes	5 300  km

Low-floor articulated city bus

Stuttgart Rössle

The DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee GmbH (RAB) , based in Ulm, is a local transport company in Baden-Württemberg and a wholly-owned subsidiary of DB Regio AG , where it belongs to the Regional Baden-Württemberg division . The RAB consists of the bus and rail business areas. The traffic area includes all of southern Württemberg ( Tübingen administrative region ) and adjacent areas. Since April 2008 the company has presented itself under the brand name Regio Alb-Bodensee .

structure

With a total of 1,215 employees and nine customer service centers, DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee is one of the most important local transport providers in southern Germany after DB Regio. The traffic area covers an area of ​​10,500 square kilometers. Every year 75 million passengers are carried, 47 million of them by bus and 28 million by rail.

There are regional branches in Ulm (headquarters, train, bus), Friedrichshafen (train, bus), Tübingen (train, bus) and Weingarten (bus).

history

At the end of the 1980s, the rail bus divisions of the Deutsche Bundesbahn were spun off into regional bus companies. The Alb-Bodensee rail bus was transferred to the newly founded company Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee GmbH  (RAB) in 1989 .

With the regionalization of local rail passenger transport, Deutsche Bahn AG  (DB) transferred this in the southern Württemberg area to the RAB on June 1, 1996, which also became a railway company . At the same time, the company was renamed DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee GmbH .

stretch

The RAB does not have its own rail network. On the following routes, the RAB carries out local rail transport as tilting technology Donau-Ostalb on behalf of the respective carriers :

Ammertalbahn Friedrichshafen – Lindau railway line Herbertingen – Isny ​​railway line Kempten (Allgäu) –Neu-Ulm railway line Reutlingen – Schelklingen railway line Rottweil – Villingen railway line Railway route Senden – Weißenhorn Stahringen – Friedrichshafen railway line

Tuttlingen – Inzigkofen railway line Tübingen – Horb railway line Tübingen – Sigmaringen railway line Ulm – Sigmaringen railway line Brenzbahn Ermstalbahn Filstalbahn Hochrheinbahn

Höllentalbahn Local railway Amstetten – Gerstetten Nagold Valley Railway Neckar-Alb Railway Upper Jagstbahn Southern runway Württemberg Allgäu Railway

In January 2017, RAG and DB ZugBus received an order for local transport services from December 2017 to 2023 on the routes or subnets 16a (Aulendorfer Kreuz) Ulm – Aulendorf, Sigmaringen – Aulendorf – Kißlegg – Memmingen, Aulendorf – Kißlegg – Lindau, 16b Friedrichshafen– Lindau / Radolfzell (each with the Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1 diesel multiple unit , run by the DB as class 650) and 16c Basel Bad – Waldshut – Lauchringen along with school and excursion trips with Alstom Coradia A TER (DB class 641) and Bombardier Talent (DB - Series 644).

Vehicle fleet

The company operates 234 buses of its own, plus 410 vehicles from 110 medium-sized companies that operate on behalf of the RAB. 33 locomotives, 149 diesel multiple units and 109  passenger cars are available for the railways and are  located at the Ulm depot . In addition, the RAB regularly uses vehicles from other railway companies, such as DB Regio or the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn, for some services .

The fleet also includes several historic rail vehicles. There are two motor coaches, one control vehicle and four sidecars of the rail bus , which are used in the summer months on Sundays and public holidays as "Ulmer Spatz" on the Swabian Alb Railway in regular traffic. The “Stuttgarter Rössle”, a class VT 12 ⁵ diesel multiple unit consisting of two multiple units and two intermediate cars, is available for special trips .

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  Low-floor city bus

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  Low-floor intercity bus

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  Bus ticket RAB

Web links

• www.bahn.de DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee
• Local traffic Bodensee-Oberschwaben / information, pictures, vehicle lists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} data and facts. DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee (RAB), 2014, accessed on November 29, 2014 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Our rail vehicles. DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee (RAB), 2014, accessed on November 29, 2014 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Our buses. DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee (RAB), 2014, accessed on November 29, 2014 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} A strong connection between the Alb and Lake Constance. DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee (RAB), 2014, accessed on November 29, 2014 . 
5. ↑ DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee (RAB) wins tender for tilting technology network 5 "Danube-Ostalb". DB Regio , accessed on September 16, 2017 . 

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '48.8 "  N , 9 ° 58' 11.9"  E