Transport and tariff association Stuttgart

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Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 22nd December 1977
Seat Stuttgart
management Thomas Hachenberger
Horst Stammler
Number of employees 83 (2017)
Branch Transport network
Website www.vvs.de

S-Bahn train of the 420 series, no longer used in the VVS, on the S6 line in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf

The Transport and Tariff Association Stuttgart GmbH (VVS) coordinates the local public transport in Baden-Wuerttemberg state capital Stuttgart and in neighboring counties Böblingen , Esslingen , Ludwigsburg and Rems-Murr , in addition, also in parts of the district Göppingen and the Ostalbkreis district . The association ensures uniform conditions of carriage and tariff regulations as well as a coordinated timetable. In doing so, he cooperates with the districts and municipalities as well as the Stuttgart Region Association .

history

The VVS community tariff was introduced on October 1, 1978 as part of the replacement of suburban traffic in Stuttgart by the Stuttgart S-Bahn . Initially, it was a collective bargaining agreement between the Deutsche Bundesbahn ( express trains , local trains , S-Bahn and rail buses ), the Deutsche Bundespost ( post buses ) and almost all means of transport of the Stuttgart trams (SSB). At the same time, the SSB gave up their in-house tariff, only on the airport bus route A, which operated until 1993, an SSB-own tariff was in effect until the end. Outside of the former S-Bahn network, the following railway lines were initially integrated:

On July 1, 1982 the VVS transitional tariff was introduced. This enabled passengers to use not only the DB and SSB means of transport with a monthly ticket, but also the buses and trains of around 40 private transport companies.

On October 1, 1993, the transitional tariff was abolished and the community tariff was extended to the entire area of ​​the four Stuttgart districts. From then on, the regional trains could no longer only be used to the end of the S-Bahn, but also to the last station before the district border with composite tickets.

1 January 2014, which was Fils Valley Railway in Göppingen district to the station Geislingen (Steige) and the Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt-Aalen railway up to the station Lorch (Württemberg) in Ostalbkreis in the VVS fare integrated.

On January 1, 2016, the cities of Nagold and Altensteig in the Calw district were also integrated into the VVS tariff.

On January 1, 2020, the Ergenzingen train station was integrated into the VVS tariff.

On January 1, 2021, the area of ​​the district of Göppingen is to be fully integrated into the VVS, whereby the Filsland mobility network is to be integrated into it.

Key figures

Development of the number of passengers in the VVS since 1996

The traffic area of ​​the VVS covers 3,012 square kilometers with around 2.4 million inhabitants. In this area, 17  regional train lines , seven S-Bahn lines , 19 light rail lines (two of which are special lines that  only run to special events), the Stuttgart cog railway , the Stuttgart funicular as well as 359  bus lines , three  trolleybus lines (see Trolleybus Esslingen am Neckar ) and 28  night bus routes .

146 S-Bahn railcars , 164 light rail vehicles , 26 diesel railcars, nine trolleybuses, three rack-and -pinion railcars , two funicular railcars and around 1,300 buses are in use in the VVS .

In 1978, when the company was founded, 178 million passengers were carried; in 2006 it was over 320 for the first time, in 2012 it was 338 million and in 2013 it was 348.9 million. With tariff income of 327 million euros, 57 percent of the costs of the network operation could be covered - in 2000, the cost coverage ratio , with income of 269 million euros, was 52 percent. With 357 million passengers, a new passenger record was set in 2014. In the first half of 2015, 181.9 million bus and train journeys were counted in the VVS area. This corresponds to an increase of 2.9 percent compared to the same period in the previous year. Income rose in the same period by seven percent, to 240 million euros. Between January and September 2015, 263.5 million people used the VVS means of transport, 3.4 percent more than in the same period of the previous year. A new record was set in 2015 with 365 million passengers. In 2019, 394.5 million trips were counted, 2.8 percent more than in the previous year. Fare income amounted to 511.4 million euros, 5.2 percent less than in 2018 due to a tariff reform.

organization

Bus stop in the VVS

With the regionalization of local rail transport, the Verbundgesellschaft changed from a corporate to a mixed group on January 1, 1996. Since then, in addition to the transport companies also have PTAs contribute half the VVS.

The managing directors of VVS GmbH are Thomas Hachenberger and Horst Stammler. The VVS supervisory board has 26 members. The chairman of the supervisory board is the mayor of Stuttgart, Fritz Kuhn .

Shareholder

Shareholder Participation Seats on the
supervisory board
Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG (SSB) 26.00% 7¹
Stuttgart Region Association (VRS) 20.00% 5 
DB Regio AG 19.00% 5²
State of Baden-Württemberg 7.50% 2 
State capital Stuttgart 7.50% 2 
GbR of the bus company in the VVS 5.00% 1 
District of Boeblingen 3.75% 1 
Esslingen district 3.75% 1 
Ludwigsburg district 3.75% 1 
Rems-Murr district 3.75% 1 
total 100.00% 26th 

¹ including three representatives of the employees and the Lord Mayor of Stuttgart as chairman of the supervisory board of SSB and VVS
² including a representative of the DB Regio Bus Region Baden-Württemberg and a representative of the employees

Since the SSB and the city of Stuttgart, as their owners, hold the majority of the shares, they de facto determine the rate of increase in the tariffs. The distribution of this increase to the individual products - taking into account structural changes in the tariff - is then decided by all shareholders.

The so-called “Verbundstufe II”, ie the uniform VVS tariff, is supported by the Verband Region Stuttgart, which finances this with around 140 million euros annually. The regional association's transport budget consists of a transport levy raised by the city of Stuttgart and the four districts involved in the VVS, as well as funds from the federal and state governments.

Tariff

The Stuttgart Transport Association has a uniform tariff for the entire area. The system comprises a tariff zone for the city of Stuttgart (zone 1) and seven other tariff zones (zones 2 to 8), which are arranged in a ring around the Stuttgart city area.

As a result of the tariff reform in April 2019, the 52 old tariff zones - most of which had existed since 1978 - were replaced by eight new tariff zones. Among other things, the former core zone 10 was combined with the ring zone 20, and since then the entire Stuttgart city area has been in one zone. The outermost ring zones 60 to 69 and 70 to 75 as well as 77 and 78 have also been merged to form the new ring zone 5. Since the prices for the zones remained constant, some trips in the tariff association were cheaper. The cost of the 2019 tariff reform was estimated at around 42 million euros per year. In April 2019, the number of trips increased by 4.1 percent compared to the same month of the previous year, and the number of subscribers by 6.8 percent. In the previous months the increase was between 1.0 and 1.3 percent.

Tickets

VVS ticket for a short distance

VVS tickets are valid in Stuttgart and the districts of Böblingen, Esslingen, Ludwigsburg and Rems-Murr for all S-Bahn, local trains (RB, RE, IRE), light rail, buses (except for line X3), the cog railway and the cable car. The VVS tariff also applies to incoming and outgoing traffic in individual neighboring towns such as Beilstein or Lorch . In the district of Göppingen, the VVS tariff has been in effect for journeys with local trains from or to the VVS area since 2014. The use of buses in the district of Göppingen is possible with single or group day tickets of the VVS in the network price level, but not with VVS single tickets. The full integration of the previous Filsland network into the VVS should take place on January 1, 2021.

Regular single tickets, 4-person tickets, short-haul tickets, single and group day tickets as well as various types of monthly and annual tickets can be purchased. Single tickets and 4-ticket tickets for children aged 6 to 14 cost around half the normal price; they can also be used to take a dog with you or as a surcharge for 1st class.

Single tickets are valid for a maximum of three hours for a journey to the destination, changes and breaks are permitted. The short-haul ticket is valid on S-Bahn and local trains for one journey to the next stop, whereby the journey must not be longer than five kilometers, in light rail and buses up to the third stop after boarding without changing or interrupting the journey.

In several cities there are discounted day tickets that can only be used in the respective city area.

The Baden-Württemberg-Ticket and the MetropolTagesTicket are also valid in the VVS.

Ticket machines are located at all S-Bahn, light rail and local trains stops, and in the SSB area there are also bus stops that are more frequented. Payment to the bus driver is mostly only possible with cash, only on the lines of the SVE in Esslingen and LVL Jäger in Ludwigsburg the possibility of (contactless) payment by girocard has been offered since 2018 . With VVS Mobil, the transport association provides its own app for smartphones, which, in addition to the timetable information, also enables the purchase of mobile phone tickets . VVS tickets can also be obtained using the SSB Move , Moovel and DB Navigator apps . The mobile phone tickets are partially discounted compared to buying them at the machine or from the bus driver.

4-person tickets must be validated before departure. In the case of S-Bahn and local trains, the validators are located on the platform or at the entrances, in the case of light rail vehicles and buses in the vehicle. All other tickets purchased from the machine or from the bus driver are immediately valid without being canceled.

Timetable areas

The following timetable books appear annually:

  • State capital Stuttgart
  • Boeblingen district
  • Rems-Murr district
  • Esslingen district
  • Ludwigsburg North district
  • Ludwigsburg south district

Transport companies in the VVS

Scheduled buses from Schlienz-Tours and FMO at Stuttgart Airport

The transport services are provided by around 40 companies. On some bus routes, there are also subcontractors that are not listed here, unless they also operate their own lines in the VVS.

Line system in the VVS

Means of transport Line numbers area operator
Regional train
RE , RB , IRE 		RE ..., RB ..., IRE ... Stuttgart, Boeblingen district, Esslingen district, Ludwigsburg district, Rems-Murr district, Lorch 1 , Göppingen district 1 Abellio , DB Regio , Go-Ahead , RAB , WEG
Train
Train 		S1 - S6, S11, S60 Stuttgart, Boeblingen district, Esslingen district, Ludwigsburg district, Rems-Murr district DB Regio
see S-Bahn Stuttgart
Light rail
Light rail 		U1 - U9, U11 - U17, U19 Stuttgart as well as Fellbach, Gerlingen, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Ostfildern, Remseck Stuttgart trams
see Stadtbahn Stuttgart
Rack railway
Rack railway 		10 Stuttgart-South, Stuttgart-Degerloch Stuttgart trams,
see Stuttgart rack railway
Funicular
Funicular 		20th Stuttgart-South, Stuttgart-Degerloch For Stuttgart trams,
see the Stuttgart funicular railway
bus
bus 		40 - 92, 99
N1 - N10
X1, X2, X7 		Stuttgart as well as Fellbach, Filderstadt, Korntal, Leonberg, Neuhausen auf den Fildern, Nürtingen, Ostfildern-Scharnhausen, Sindelfingen, Wolfschlugen Stuttgart trams  (subcontractors: Fischle , GR Omnibus , Knisel, Schlienz-Tours , Seitter)
trolleybus
trolleybus 		101, 113, 118 Esslingen, Stuttgart-Obertürkheim SVE
bus
bus 		102 - 199
N12 - N22, N81, N89
X19 		District of Esslingen and Grafenberg 1 , Römerstein-Donnstetten 1 Bader (subcontractors: Ganter), Fischle & Schlienz , FMO , GR Omnibus , Haussmann & Bauer , Melchinger , OVG , OVK , Schlienz-Tours , SVE , WBG  (subcontractors: Fischer, Weissinger, Winkler)
bus
bus 		201 - 393
N21, N24, N30, N31, N36 		Rems-Murr-Kreis and Lorch 1 , Mainhardt 1 , Wüstenrot 1 Dannenmann , Eisemann, Fischle & Schlienz , FMO , Knauss, OVR , Römer, Schlienz-Tours
bus
bus 		402 - 626
N40 - N58
X43, X46 		District of Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart-Stammheim, Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Beilstein 1 Flattich, FMO , LVL Jäger , RBS  (subcontractors: Gross, Klingel, Zügel), Seiz Reisen , Spillmann, OVR , Stadtwerke Remseck am Neckar (subcontractors: Knisel), WBG  (subcontractors: Ernesti, Gross, Schreiter, Seitter, Wöhr Tours)
bus
bus 		94 (future 690) 2
631 - 794
N60 - N80
X74, X77 		District of Böblingen and Heimsheim 1 , Tiefenbronn-Lehningen 1 , Gechingen 1 , Nagold 1 , Rohrdorf 1 , Ebhausen 1 , Altensteig 1 , Egenhausen 1 , Rottenburg-Ergenzingen 1 Däuble, FMO , Kappus, Hassler, Pflieger , RAB , RVP, Seitter, Stäbler, Stadtwerke Herrenberg , VBN , Wöhr Tours
bus
bus 		805-828 western district of Esslingen, eastern district of Böblingen and Dettenhausen 1 , Walddorfhäslach 1 FMO (subcontractors: Kocher / Lutz, Thumm), Melchinger
bus
bus 		901 - 997
N90 - N99
X93 		from January 1, 2021 (full integration in the VVS):
District of Göppingen and Amstetten-Schalkstetten 1 , Gerstetten 1 , Lorch 1 , Schwäbisch Gmünd 1 , Waldstetten-Wißgoldingen 1 		Auto-Mann, Frank & Stöckle, Hildenbrand, Merkle, OVG , RBS , Sihler
bus
Express bus (Relex) 		X10, X20, X60 Esslingen district, Boeblingen district, Rems-Murr district, Stuttgart-Vaihingen Schlienz tours

1 The VVS tariff only applies to trips into or out of the VVS area using the means of transport mentioned in each case.

2 The Stuttgart trams have given up their bus routes, which run entirely outside the Stuttgart city area, by December 31, 2018. These lines are therefore renumbered from the two-digit SSB scheme to the three-digit district scheme, which has not yet been fully implemented.

The 300 range denotes lines in the former Backnang district , line numbers in the 600 range denote the Leonberg district, which no longer exists .

Trivia

  • The magazine Deutsche Sprachwelt put the VVS in its category "Sprachsünder-Ecke" in 2007 because it replaced the word "Fahrkarte" with "Ticket".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The large network area at www.et420-online.de
  2. ↑ a b History of the Association ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on vvs.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vvs.de
  3. ↑ Ergenzingen station is now part of the VVS. VVS Supervisory Board has decided to integrate the collective agreement. In: vvs.de. Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart, December 13, 2019, accessed on December 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Full integration of the district of Göppingen in the VVS: district council agrees with a large majority. vvs.de, February 1, 2019, accessed on February 2, 2019 (press release).
  5. ↑ VVS Newsletter March 2014 on vvs.de
  6. ↑ composite reports on vvs.de
  7. ↑ Andreas Feilhauer: S-Bahn successfully on the road . In: Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung . February 14, 2015, p. 13 .
  8. ↑ VVS is aiming for new records this year . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . No. 187 , August 15, 2015, p. 21 ( online ).
  9. ↑ Barbara Czimmer-Gauss: The long S-Bahn doesn't run spontaneously . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . No. 258 , November 7, 2015, p. 21 ( online ).
  10. ↑ Bus and train in the region and the Baden-Württemberg local transport company . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . tape 72 , no. 24 , January 30, 2016, pp. 20 .
  11. ↑ New passenger record in VVS thanks to tariff reform. In: vvs.de. Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart, February 14, 2020, accessed on February 14, 2020 .
  12. ↑ 2017 participation report of the Stuttgart Region Association. Verband Region Stuttgart, October 2018, pp. 58-61 , accessed on August 28, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Financing  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on s-bahn-region-stuttgart.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.s-bahn-region-stuttgart.de  
  14. ^ Thomas Durchdenwald: VVS decides historical tariff reform . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . tape 73 , no. 169 , 2018, p. 17 .
  15. ↑ a b Simple, inexpensive, environmentally friendly: Supervisory Board adopts new VVS tariff. Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart, July 24, 2018, accessed on July 26, 2018 .
  16. ^ Thomas Durchdenwald: After tariff reform, 50,000 more journeys in the VVS . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . tape 74 , no. 128 , June 4, 2019, p. 17 (similar version at stuttgarter-zeitung.de ).
  17. ↑ Pay contactless on the buses of LVL Jäger and SVE and surf free of charge via WLAN. Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart, July 13, 2018, accessed on August 23, 2019 .
  18. ↑ The HandyTicket. Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart, accessed on 23 August 2019 .
  19. ↑ Line number in the district of Göppingen after full integration. Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart, accessed on June 6, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Tariff zone plan from January 1, 2021. Stuttgart Transport and Tariff Association, accessed on June 6, 2020 .