Alleo

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Alleo GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 2007
Seat Strasbourg , France
management Eric Baconnier, Sophie Buyse-Immenroth
Number of employees 9 (2016)
Branch cross-border passenger transport
Website www.alleo.eu

Alleo is the name of a joint venture between the French state railway SNCF and Deutsche Bahn AG . The purpose of the company is the marketing of international trains via the LGV Est européenne from Paris to Frankfurt am Main and Stuttgart and since March 23, 2012 from Frankfurt am Main to Marseille via the LGV Rhin-Rhône . The managing directors are Eric Baconnier and Wolfgang Merz, who succeeded Frank Hoffmann and Emmanuel Mroz in summer 2018. Sophie Buyse-Immenroth was appointed managing director in place of Merz in November 2018.

history

On May 23, 2005, the then CEOs of DB and SNCF, Hartmut Mehdorn and Louis Gallois , signed a letter of intent to offer joint high-speed services between southern Germany and Paris from 2007 onwards.

The contract to establish the joint venture was signed by Mehdorn and Anne-Marie Idrac , the then CEO of SNCF, on May 25, 2007 in Paris. Tasks are taken over by the project company Rhealys . The company was based in Saarbrücken until 2016 . There are only seven employees in total. The joint venture was contractually secured until 2012. In contrast to similar business models such as Lyria between SNCF and SBB , Alleo is not communicated externally and was not introduced as a brand.

Since the summer of 2008, ICE units have repeatedly been canceled on the north branch, so that replacement TGVs were used, the connection in Saarbrücken was often broken or trains were completely canceled.

In March 2008, due to the positive development of the first financial year, Hoffmann announced that it would be adding new intermediate stops (such as the Champagne-Ardenne TGV station ) and destinations (such as the Marne-la-Vallée - Chessy station , which connects Disneyland Resort Paris to the French high-speed network ) in the future ) want to drive. With the timetable change in December 2009, however, the stops for trains to and from Frankfurt at Lorraine TGV station were initially canceled.

Since March 23, 2012, the cooperation between the two railways on the new route from Frankfurt am Main via Strasbourg and Lyon to Marseille via LGV Rhin-Rhône, which opened in December 2011, has been continued.

In 2013, a market share of 58% was achieved on the Stuttgart – Paris route compared to aircraft. On the Frankfurt – Paris route, the market share of rail in comparison to airplanes is 26%.

On July 23, 2015, the cooperation in Franco-German high-speed traffic was extended by five years until 2020.

The trains of the 407 series, introduced in mid-2015 in Franco-German high-speed traffic, have meanwhile replaced the 406 series trains suitable for France, which have been dismantled and thus lost their approval for traffic to France. From April 2016, the ICE offer was to be expanded from five to six trains per day. Four of them should run via Saarbrücken and two via Strasbourg.

The flight offer between Stuttgart and Paris fell between 2007 and 2016 from over 60 to around 25 flights per week. With the commissioning of the 106 km long and 320 km / h passable new section between Baudrecourt and Strasbourg, the travel time was initially to be reduced by ten minutes, to three and a half hours, from July 3, 2016, and the range was to be expanded from four to five train pairs. The travel time has now been further reduced to around three hours and ten minutes (as of 2019).

At the beginning of 2016, the operational headquarters were relocated from Saarbrücken to Strasbourg. After the contract, which runs until 2020, has expired, SNCF and DB will no longer operate the joint subsidiary Alleo. The shareholders' meeting decided on December 4, 2018 to dissolve the company.

Lines

The Intercity-Express lines 82 , 83 and 84 are served. These are:

  • Paris– ( Lorraine TGV ) - (Forbach) –Saarbrücken – Kaiserslautern – Mannheim – Frankfurt / Main (4 pairs of trains)
  • Paris – Strasbourg – Karlsruhe – Mannheim – Frankfurt / Main (2 pairs of trains)
  • Paris – Strasbourg – Karlsruhe – Stuttgart (3 pairs of trains)
  • Paris – Strasbourg – Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich (1 pair of trains)
  • Frankfurt / Main – Mannheim – Karlsruhe – Baden-Baden – Strasbourg – Mulhouse – Belfort – Besançon – Lyon – Avignon – Aix-en-Provence – Marseille (1 pair of trains)

Passenger numbers

year Passengers
in thousands
2007 0.450
2008 1,200
2009 1,300
2010 1,400
2011 1,450
2012 1,550

In the first two years of operation, a total of around 2.2 million passengers used the cross-border high-speed traffic. 55% of the travelers were on the trains between Frankfurt and Paris, 45% on the trains between Munich, Stuttgart and Paris. According to Deutsche Bahn, the utilization of ICEs and TGVs between Germany and France on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays was between 90 and 100%.

On the north axis, the number of passengers increased from 658,780 (2008) to 912,753 (2015, +39%). On the southern axis, the number of travelers increased by 53% over the same period, from 525,883 to 805,502. The market share between Stuttgart and Paris in 2014 was 67%.

The number of travelers in Franco-German high-speed traffic increased in the first half of 2015 by four percent, to around 900,000. By mid-2015, the Franco-German high-speed train had carried 12 million passengers. Around 16 million passengers were counted in the first ten years of operation.

company

There are various details about the origin of the company name (company). One interpretation assumes that it is composed of the words aller (French for to go ) and allemand (French for German ). Another version sees the abbreviation as an acronym for Alliance Est-Ouest . Frank Hoffmann interprets the syllable "All" as an abbreviation for Allianz, Allemagne or All together and "eo" as the Latin translation for "I'm going".

The Franco-German high-speed traffic includes 20 trains, 58 drivers and 196 train attendants from both countries. Around the beginning of 2016, the company received the Franco-German business award in the personnel category .

literature

Web links

  • www.alleo.eu , official website of the company (as of June 10, 2017 offline - website is under construction)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entries in the commercial register Alleo GmbH . online-handelsregister.de
  2. ↑ Source: Derniere Nouvelles d'Alsace / DMM
  3. ↑ Commercial register announcement from 04.07.2018
  4. ↑ DB and SNCF set up joint operating company for the POS route . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 7/2005, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 317.
  5. ↑ a b Invest-in-france.org: Frank Hoffmann  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.invest-in-france.org  
  6. ↑ Financial Times Deutschland : Bahn leaves Paris-Linien to the TGV ( memento of January 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), January 22, 2010
  7. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau online: Next stop at Disneyland Paris
  8. ^ Spiegel Online: New train connection: At high speed from Frankfurt to Marseille
  9. ↑ a b c The DB class 407 is finally going to Paris . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . No. 10 , 2015, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 490 f .
  10. ↑ Christian Milankovic: The train depends on the plane on the Paris route . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . April 25, 2016, p. 17 ( online ).
  11. ^ Derniere Nouvelles d'Alsace / DMM
  12. ↑ Eckhard Buddruss: ICE traffic to Paris is a hit. In: The Rhine Palatinate. June 25, 2019, accessed on November 29, 2019 : “In France, trains are now run by the SNCF on the“ Ax Est ”(east axis). The reason for this decision was that almost half of the trains (seven out of 16) between Paris and Strasbourg now continue to Germany. "
  13. ^ The Franco-German high-speed traffic: balance sheet and perspectives
  14. ^ Deutsche Bahn AG: DB and SNCF draw a successful balance sheet from two years of Franco-German high-speed traffic . Press release from June 10, 2009
  15. ^ Bahn wants to go to Paris more often . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , March 18, 2009
  16. ↑ DB sends special trains to the DFB games in Paris . In: DB World . June 2016, p. 11 .
  17. ^ DB Mobility Logistics AG (Ed.): New passenger record for international long-distance traffic to France, Belgium and the Netherlands . Press release from February 6, 2015.
  18. ↑ Ten years of Franco-German high-speed traffic: ICE christened “Paris”. In: deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn, June 1, 2017, archived from the original on June 13, 2017 ; accessed on June 11, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Alleo, Alleo, Alleo ... . In: Today's railways Europe . August 2007, issue 140, ISSN  1354-2753 , p. 7.
  20. ↑ Deutschlandfunk: Fast rail between Paris and Stuttgart - TGV and ICE on new high-speed lines
  21. ^ Werner Mathias Ried: German-French high-speed traffic: Balance and perspectives . Page 7 of 27.
  22. ↑ Katharin Müller-Güldemeister: Bonjour vitesse! In: mobile . No. 6 , June 2016, ISSN  0949-586X , ZDB -ID 1221702-5 , p. 117 .