Active bus Flensburg

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Active bus Flensburg
Aktiv Bus Flensburg GmbH 2015.svg
Basic information
Company headquarters Flensburg
Web presence Web presence
legal form GmbH
founding 1881 Stadtwerke Flensburg
hived off in 1999
Supervisory board Rolf Helgert
Managing directors Paul Hemkentokrax
Operations management Manfred Schlotfeldt
Transport network VGSF
Employee 100
Lines
bus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
number of vehicles
Omnibuses MB Citaro and MB Citaro G
Volvo 7900
statistics
Passengers 15 million (year)
Mileage 2.5 million km (year)
Stops 164
Operating facilities
Depots Apenrader Strasse 22
Logo of Stadtwerke Flensburg Bus until 1999
Active Bus logo
(1999-2015)

The active Bus Flensburg GmbH (formerly Stadtwerke Flensburg GmbH / Bus ) is a transport company and operator of the local public transport in the city of Flensburg . The company was founded in 1999 as a subsidiary of the former bus division of the Flensburger Stadtwerke. The active Bus Flensburg GmbH operates eleven bus routes in the city.

history

The city of Flensburg has operated its own tram with four lines since 1881 . During the Second World War , line 2 was switched to trolleybus operation in 1943 . Since 1950, a diesel bus drove regularly from the central bus station to Solitüde for the first time . In 1957, line 3 and trolleybus line 2 were converted to diesel bus operation. The remaining tram line 1 was discontinued in the summer of 1973 and replaced by motor buses.

In 1971 a transport alliance was concluded with AFAG and in 1976 the route plan was improved. In the late 1980s a line has been in the in the Danish border preferred Niehuus set (line 8).

In 1999 the bus division of Stadtwerke was spun off into the subsidiary Aktiv Bus Flensburg GmbH. After the EU regulation 1370/2007 relating to competition in local public transport came into force in 2007 , the concessions for lines 10, 11, 12, 14 and 15 were awarded in 2015 by a decision of the city council in the form of a direct award to Aktiv Bus . AFAG then operated the lines until 2017 on behalf of Aktiv Bus . In a tender for subcontracting services on January 1, 2018, AFAG was subject to the companies Förde Bus GmbH & Co KG and Autokraft GmbH.

Since 2018, Aktiv Bus itself has provided a good 50% of the line service on the city bus routes (1–14), while Förde Bus and Autokraft operate the rest of the service as subcontractors on behalf of Aktiv Bus .

photos

  • The tram operated in Flensburg from 1881 to 1973

  • Aktiv Bus depot

  • Aktiv Bus Flensburg GmbH bus from inside

  • Central bus station in Flensburg

  • New stop sign since 2013

Others

Aktiv Bus initiated the Internet platform Busradar Flensburg in 2013 , which enables passengers to follow the buses in real time on the Internet. The system is GPS-supported and initially only showed the Aktiv Bus lines . Meanwhile, DB Autokraft and Förde Bus as well as some overland routes can be followed.

Color of the vehicles

Color scheme of the vehicles from 1973 to 1991

The vehicles were painted in beige or yellow tones until 1973. When the tram line was closed, the buses were painted orange-red / white with white surfaces for advertising. Since the late 1980s, the vehicles have been delivered in white and have advertising stuck on them. A design competition was held for the takeover of the new hybrid buses from Volvo, in which the citizens of the city took part. The winner was a caterpillar design. The condition was a connection to the Climate Pact concept.

Lines

Status: August 08, 2020

  • 1 train station - ZOB - Krusau / DK
  • 2 ZOB - Harrisleer Kreuz - Am Lachsbach
  • 3 Marienhölzung - ZOB - Solitude
  • 4 Tastrup exit - Campus Uni - train station - ZOB - Frösleeweg
  • 5 ZOB - train station - campus - Sünderup - Hesttoft - ZOB (ring line)
  • 7 Tremmerup - ZOB - Am Lachsbach
  • 10 Twedter Plack - Kauslund - Engelsby - Südermarkt - Timm-Kröger-Weg - Raiffeisenstraße
  • 11 Twedter Plack - Engelsby - Südermarkt - Citti-Park - Gartenstadt Weiche - Nikolaus-Matthiesen-Straße
  • 12 ZOB - Rude - Bahnhof / Tegelbarg - Weiche - Gartenstadt
  • 13 Flensburg ZOB - Sandberg - Tarup
  • 14 ZOB - Südermarkt - Rude - Förde Park (technology center)

Former lines

  • 6 P + R Nordkreuz - ZOB - Twedter Plack
  • 8 ZOB - Niehuus

Vehicle fleet

Aktiv Bus owns the following buses: 15 Mercedes-Benz Citaro Gs, 3 Mercedes-Benz Citaro LEs and 9 Volvo 7900s .

In the past, Stadtwerke / Aktiv Bus had the following vehicles in stock

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Active bus. Corporate development , accessed on: March 16, 2018
  2. ↑ Regulation (EC) No. 1370/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of October 23, 2007 on public passenger transport services by rail and road (PDF), accessed on May 15, 2017
  3. ↑ AFAG-Linien, Flensburger Tageblatt, August 5th, 2016
  4. ↑ Traffic situation always under control: Bus radar draws circles, Flensburger Tageblatt, March 21, 2016

Coordinates: 54 ° 48 ′ 8.1 "  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 29.4"  E