TUTicket

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Logo Verkehrsverbund Tuttlingen

The Tuttlingen transport association - abbreviated to TUTicket - is the transport association for the Tuttlingen district , based in Tuttlingen . TUTicket has joined forces with the Rottweil transport association and the Schwarzwald-Baar transport association to form the Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg regional tariff cooperation , so that a transitional tariff applies to journeys within the three districts of Tuttlingen, Rottweil and Schwarzwald-Baar . TUTicket is one of the small transport associations in Baden-Württemberg . He has always refused a merger with the other associations of the tariff community, but a study on a merger with the other ring train transport associations is currently taking place as part of a subsidy program of the state of Baden-Württemberg. There is no association. The work will be carried out by the district office. The management of TUTicket is currently vacant. Until 2018 this was Gabriele Zimmer, she took over the office from Jens Keucher on November 1st, 2017, who followed Klaus Storz in August 2013. In 2017, around 8.7 million passengers were carried.

History and tasks

TUTicket took up its work with the start of the ring train in September 2003 and has since been affiliated with the Tuttlingen District Office, local transport office. As the responsible authority association, TUTicket fulfills the transport planning of the local public transport in the Tuttlingen district, which relates to bus traffic throughout the district as well as the ring train within the district boundaries. The Ringzug is organized together with the other districts involved and the NVBW - both financially and in terms of planning.

However, the local transport office of the Tuttlingen district has been running traffic planning since the 1980s, when the Tuttlingen district commissioned the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn with train journeys on the Tuttlingen - Fridingen route as part of school traffic using the Danube valley model . This was a novelty even before the rail reform . In the course of this, it turned out to be problematic that parallel bus services were planned individually and operated without coordination, which inhibited the use of a district-paid train. The Tuttlingen district then approached the bus operators concerned and concluded contracts with them that transferred the planning and financing to the district. Without the bus operators losing their actual line concession, the latter was able to create and finance efficient, cross-line timetables and schedules. With the introduction of the Danube Valley model in 1990, this even went so far that the Südbadenbus GmbH was no longer an independent bus service on the 7450 (Tuttlingen-Sigmaringen) line because of the strong and more attractive parallel traffic on the rail, so that the district was also planning this line took over completely and received a grant for the part on the soil of the district of Sigmaringen. For years, the driving contracts were awarded to the same medium-sized bus companies in the Tuttlingen district that also had line concessions. However, on this way it came to the curiosity that vehicles of a bus company drove on any number of lines and thus also made trips on a line that actually belongs to a competitor.

In the 1990s, the former Südbadenbus routes 7451 and 7452 (Tuttlingen-Trossingen and Tuttlingen-Schwenningen) were taken over according to the same model, and under the name Baar-Konzept , trips from Talheim to Schwenningen were also released under the Passenger Transport Act for special school traffic integrated into the line timetable. The liner concession was transferred to the company Klaiber Bus GmbH & Co. KG, and the timetable was considerably expanded and clocked up.

With the introduction of the ring train, the system in the Danube Valley that had been honed over the years was then transferred to the entire district, bus journeys parallel to the rails were mostly dismantled and in some cases discontinued. This traffic situation was also the cornerstone for the common TUTicket tariff, which was also introduced with the start of the ring train.

The contracts concluded with the bus companies could be extended to the end of 2019 after EU regulation 1370/2007 was exhausted , after which they have to be put out to tender across Europe due to the use of public funds. Due to delays in the award process, the new start of operations was postponed to March 1, 2020; in the section between the end of the concession (November 30, 2019) and the start of operations, transition contracts were concluded with the old operators on the basis of the old timetables and vehicle schedules. As a result of the tender made in 2018, the local companies Klaiber Bus GmbH & Co.KG ( Spaichingen , subnetwork north-west) Stadtbus Tuttlingen Klink GmbH (Tuttlingen, subnetwork south) and Omnibus Beck GmbH ( Bärenthal , subnetwork east) were able to prevail . A clearly condensed and synchronized timetable is to be used, and comfort and quality are to be increased. However, from March 1, 2020, all cross-district bus routes will be discontinued.

Railway lines in the tariff area

The ring train on the Wutachtalbahn near the Geisingen-Kirchen stop

The TUTicket tariff area is crossed by a total of five active railway lines. With the start of the ring train in 2003, rail traffic in the area of ​​TUTicket has improved significantly, so that the network area can now have 28 active rail stops, and so many municipalities again have one (or often even several) train stops. The bus routes in the tariff area were systematically synchronized with the ring train, so that in connection with the changes since 2003 there is often talk of a quantum leap in local transport in the region. In detail, there are five active rail routes within the TUTicket network:

The Heubergbahn from Spaichingen to Reichenbach am Heuberg has been shut down and dismantled.

Transport companies in the TUTicket network (selection)

  • Klaiber Bus GmbH & Co KG
  • Zweckverband Ringzug
  • Oberist Travel
  • Omnibus Beck
  • City bus Tuttlingen Klink GmbH

Web links

See also: List of German tariff and transport associations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Local transport plan of the Tuttlingen district, Chapter 1 Introduction [1]
  2. ↑ Announcement at the Tuttlingen district, accessed on December 28, 2019 [2]
  3. ↑ Press release of the Tuttlingen district, accessed on December 28, 2019 [3]