ÖBB Infra
| ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | January 1, 2009 (in its current legal form) |
| Seat |
Vienna , Austria
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| management | Silvia Angelo, Franz Bauer, Johann Pluy (Board of Directors) |
| Number of employees | 18,172 (2017) |
| sales | 2,101.4 million euros (2017) |
| Branch | Railway infrastructure |
| Website | infrastructure.oebb.at |
The ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG (short ÖBB Infra ) is a part of the company ÖBB-Holding AG . The infrastructure company was created in the course of the Federal Railway Structure Act 2003 and the railway reform of 2009, where the previously founded ÖBB-Infrastruktur Bau AG and ÖBB-Infrastruktur Betrieb AG were merged to form ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG. ÖBB Infra is responsible for route allocation, operation and maintenance of the Austrian rail network as well as planning, project planning and construction of the rail infrastructure and train stations / stops. The sole shareholder of the company is ÖBB-Holding-AG, which is 100 percent owned by the Republic of Austria .
history
With the Federal Railway Structure Act 2003, the ÖBB-Infrastruktur Betrieb AG and ÖBB-Infrastruktur Bau AG were founded. The companies Eisenbahn-Hochleistungsstrecken-AG and Eisenbahninfrastructurefinanzierungs-Gesellschaft mbH were integrated into ÖBB-Infrastruktur Bau AG. The shares in Brenner Eisenbahn GmbH were transferred to ÖBB-Infrastruktur Bau AG by the Republic of Austria. As a result of the 2009 rail reform, ÖBB Infrastruktur Bau AG was renamed ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG and then merged with ÖBB-Infrastruktur Betrieb AG. The Brenner Eisenbahn GmbH was merged with the newly created ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG. As of December 31, 2017, ÖBB Infra held 31 investments in other companies.
task
In Section 31 of the Austrian Federal Railway Act , the tasks of ÖBB Infra are named as follows:
- Paragraph 1: The task of ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG is in particular that of a railway infrastructure company, in which a needs-based and safe rail infrastructure (including high-performance lines) is planned, built, maintained (i.e. maintenance, inspection, fault clearance, repair and reinvestment), provided and operated; Furthermore, shunting services can also be provided.
- Paragraph 3: ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG is also entitled to plan and build other infrastructure projects, provided that the costs are borne by third parties.
facts and figures
financing
The investments of ÖBB Infra are financed from the federal budget of the Republic of Austria. Subsidy contracts are drawn up annually between ÖBB Infra and the federal government, which are based on the six-year framework plan of ÖBB Infra, which is revised annually and stipulate the amount of the required financial resources. (In 2017 it was 785.9 million euros for grants for operating the rail infrastructure , 785.8 million euros for grants for maintenance / planning / construction and 550.5 million euros for grants for inspection / maintenance / repair ). Since 2016, bonds have been taken out on the capital market for new construction projects that are liable to the Republic of Austria and run through the Austrian Federal Financing Agency. Due to Austria's good credit rating , credit costs are kept lower.
Investments
In the current master plan of ÖBB Infra, investments amounting to 13.9 billion euros are planned from 2018 to 2023. Around 3.7 billion euros of this will go to the construction of the Koralm Railway and the Semmering Base Tunnel . 2.5 billion euros are earmarked for the construction of the Brenner Base Tunnel . The remaining 7.6 billion euros are “reinvestments in regional and main lines, station conversions, terminals, security and operations management & other new and expanded lines”.
Others
Because of track warping , the rails were painted white as a test in the hot summer of 2019 .
Web links
- ÖBB framework plan 2018–2023 , at www.parlament.gv.at.
- Selected construction projects of ÖBB Infra , on infrastructur.oebb.at.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual Report ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG 2017 (PDF)
- ↑ Federal Railway Structure Act 2003 (PDF)
- ↑ Railway reform 2009 (PDF)
- ↑ Budget Report 2018/2019 , pp. 95–99, on bmf.gv.at. (PDF)
- ↑ Master plan 2018-2023 ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG , presentation slides, slide 16 (PDF)
- ↑ Press release ÖBB: Austria: ÖBB color rails against heat white. In: Lok-Report.de. July 22, 2019, accessed August 28, 2020 .