Transport Association Kempten

Transport Association Kempten
Basic information
Company headquarters	Kempten
founding	1992
resolution	2016

The Verkehrsgemeinschaft Kempten ( VK for short ) is an association of all transport companies that operate bus services in the area of ​​the independent city of Kempten (Allgäu) and the northern half of the Oberallgäu district . It was founded in 1992 and has been coordinating the timetables and tariffs of the bus lines involved since then - there is a binding collective tariff for all members (which has replaced the previous in-house tariffs of the individual bus companies), and single tickets can also be purchased for trips with several companies. The rail transport in the transport field of VK (local trains of the DB Regio and alex ) - not included in the common tariff, the UK is therefore not a true - except for the day pass "Oberallgäu ticket" transport association . With the introduction of the Mona Allgäu tariff in 2016, the Kempten transport association was dissolved.

history

The yellow city buses from Kempten

Central bus transfer point (ZUM) in Kempten

In Kempten there was a 1928/39 launched Kraftpost line after Obergünzburg / Sontheim and Buchberg / Isny . Other lines followed, especially because the destinations could not be accessed by rail. After the Second World War , the bus operator Josef Schattmeier recognized a need for urban bus transport. For the first Allgäu festival week , he and his competitors (Bodenmüller, Haslach, Pfahler) set up Stadtverkehr GmbH . In order to be able to use the two planned lines, two buses were "laboriously" put together. Eight years later, Stadtverkehr GmbH expanded the bus network to six lines. In the following years, further courses were set up due to the emergence of new districts. The attempt to set up cheapest, but not always profitable, connections in the city center in order to relieve the pressure on individual traffic led the city council to decide in 1984 to subsidize urban traffic.

In the summer of 1983, the Transport Committee decided in favor of the former station forecourt as the central bus station . Some colleagues thought the square was too small and suggested the Albert-Wehr-Platz at the Lyceum. In the spring of 1993 the city council decided with a narrow majority in favor of Albert-Wehr-Platz. The Kempten transport association was founded a year earlier. Thanks to the fact that several bus companies belong to this community, it was possible to use all lines with the same ticket in the independent city of Kempten and the Altlandkreis Kempten .

After a year of construction, the ZUM ( central bus transfer point ) was opened on the Albert-Wehr-Platz on September 4, 1995 . The building project cost 3.8 million  marks . A timetable with diameter lines came into force. Here all 26 lines of the transport community meet at the ZUM. The city of Kempten awarded an environmental prize to the community because of its efforts to ensure that buses are environmentally friendly. Before 2000, diesel-powered buses were converted to sulfur-free biodiesel . The low-floor buses with vehicle catalytic converters and soot particle filters were also part of these efforts.

Traffic area

The traffic area of ​​the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Kempten comprises the entire area of ​​the independent city of Kempten as well as the northern half of the Oberallgäu district. The Verkehrsgemeinschaft Oberallgäu (VG OA) is responsible for the southern half of the Oberallgäu district . The division of the Oberallgäu district in this regard is historical, the VK traffic area with the former Kempten (Allgäu) district covers the natural surroundings of the city of Kempten, while the VG OA traffic area includes the former Sonthofen district . However, there is no direct connection with the regional reform, because the two old districts of Kempten and Sonthofen were merged to form the Oberallgäu district as early as 1973 (i.e. 19 years before the founding of the VK and 22 years before the founding of the younger VG OA, which only existed since 1995 ).

Season ticket with VK chip

Rates

The area covered by the Kempten Transport Association is divided into nine different tariff zones. The urban area of ​​Kempten corresponds to "tariff zone zero". This is further divided: In the area inside and outside the middle ring , the other eight tariff zones are arranged in a ring around tariff zone zero and not numbered. In addition to single tickets (also for groups and children), day tickets (including both pure bus day tickets and combined bus-rail day tickets as part of the Oberallgäu ticket special offer), [[season ticket | weekly tickets , monthly tickets and annual tickets ]] are offered.

Members of the UK

The Verkehrsgemeinschaft Kempten essentially consists of the following companies:

• Kemptener Verkehrsbetriebe (responsible for the Kempten city bus)
  • Haslach Bus (operator of the city bus in Kempten)
    • Schweighart Reisen
• Regional bus Augsburg (responsible for most regional bus routes in the UK traffic area)
  • Adam Pfahler
• Schattmeier travel agency
• Berchtold's road trips
• Gromer omnibus
• Morent trips
• DB Regio Bus
  • Regional traffic Allgäu

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Franz-Rasso Böck , Ralf Lienert , Joachim Weigel (eds.): Century views of Kempten 1900–2000 . Verlag Tobias Dannheimer - Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten (Allgäu) 1999, ISBN 3-88881-035-3 , p. 72 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 32.8 "  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 47.5"  E