Augsburg transport company

Augsburger Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
Basic information
Company headquarters	augsburg
Web presence	swa bus & tram
Reference year	2016
owner	Stadtwerke Augsburg Verkehrs-GmbH
Supervisory board	Kurt Gribl (Chairman)
Managing directors	Walter Casazza
Transport network	AVV
Employee	530 (driver)
Lines
tram	5, plus 2 special lines
bus	23 own and one joint line with GVG
Other lines	5 night bus lines, 4 AST lines.
number of vehicles
Tram cars	82 (for scheduled services; as of November 2018)
Omnibuses	93 (for scheduled services; as of December 30, 2018)
statistics
Passengers	61.6 million annually
Length of line network
Tram lines	45.2 km
Bus routes	135.2 km
Operating facilities
Depots	a bus depot a tram depot

The Augsburger traffic mbH , AVG abbreviated, runs a large part of the public transport in the city of Augsburg . The limited liability company was founded in 2003 and acted as a service provider for its parent company Stadtwerke Augsburg Verkehrs-GmbH (SWA) until December 31, 2005 . On January 1, 2006, the AVG for full was transport companies and received the appropriate lines - concessions transferred. Your routes are integrated into the Augsburg Transport and Tariff Association (AVV), with the service area being limited to interior zones 10 and 20. Zone 10 includes the city center, zone 20 the Augsburg districts and the neighboring cities Friedberg , Stadtbergen, Neusäß and Gersthofen .

Lines

tram

→ Main article : Augsburg tram

City bus

In addition to the tram, the transport company operates city ​​bus lines without the number 58-23. One of them is an amplifier line for work and school traffic with a different route. Line 21 was operated from September 2010 to April 30, 2016 by the Gersthofer Verkehrsgesellschaft (GVG) on a contract basis. Since May 1, 2016, this has been operated by Z Mobility Werner Ziegelmeier GmbH, also on a contract basis. The previous tender stipulated the use of MAN solo buses from AVG. Lines 34 and 39 were also operated by the Storz bus company between January 2012 and December 2013, but with buses from the municipal utility. Before that, SchwabenMobil drivers drove there - also on public utility buses. With the timetable change in December 2014, lines 34 and 39 were renamed to lines 24 and 25 and have since been served again by AVG. In the meantime, the AVG buses continue to operate there, but with Schwabenbus bus drivers, also again on behalf of contract traffic. The line 38 is in the order traffic by the company Schäffler operated (formerly mixed operation AVG and Schäffler), the specially two Mercedes buses holds for it. Line 43 has also been operated on a contract basis from its introduction. SchwabenMobil drove there with its own buses until December 2010, and the Storz company has been responsible for this since December 2010 with a Mercedes bus that was also specially purchased. Occasionally there is also a MAN solo bus from AVG, but with Storz drivers. Line 58 is a joint line of AVG and GVG, but is only served by GVG. Initially, a specially procured Mercedes-Benz Sprinter was used, but in some cases also a normal standard bus. The Mercedes Sprinter has now been replaced by a new Mercedes Sprinter. All bus lines are integrated into the passenger information system (FIS), which shows the next departures at the stops. The AVG fleet has been completely low-floor since the beginning of November 2006, and since January 2011 it has also consisted exclusively of natural gas buses. Diesel buses were only used again during the second Königsplatz renovation. A total of 95 buses are available for regular service.

For the first time in the history of Stadtwerke Augsburg Verkehrsbetriebe and Augsburger Verkehrsgesellschaft (AVG), passengers can now use new vehicles from Mercedes, Citaro 2 (Euro 6 / natural gas) instead of new vehicles from MAN. All vehicles from the first purchase have arrived and are in regular service (as of September 2016). The new buses replaced the MAN NG 313 CNG buses from 2000 (prototype), 2002 and 2003, the last of which was rail replacement services in 2016.

line	route	Cycle Mon-Fri	Clock Sa	Clock Sun / Ft
	Bärenwirt / DRVS - Oberhausen (- Gasworks ) - Bärenkeller Süd	15 minutes.	20 min.	15 minutes.
	Firnhaberau - City-Galerie / VHS - Moritzplatz - Königsplatz - Central Station	15 minutes.	20 min.	30 min.
	Firnhaberau - Hammerschmiede - Kleesiedlung - Theater - Central Station	15 minutes.	20 min.	30 min.
24	Haunstetten North - South Hospital - Haunstetten South	15 minutes.	20 min.	15 minutes.
25th	Haunstetten North - Haunstetten West P + R - Haunstetten South	15 minutes.	20 min.	15 minutes.
	Lechhausen Neuer Ostfriedhof - Hochzoll Mitte - Hochzoll Kuhsee	15 minutes.	20 min.	15 minutes.
	Rudolf-Diesel-Gymnasium - Hochzoll Süd	15 minutes.	20 min.	15 minutes.
	Lechhausen Neuer Ostfriedhof - Rudolf Diesel High School	15 minutes.	20 min.	15 minutes.
	Klinikum / BKH - Königsplatz - Zoo / Botanical Garden	15-30 min.	15-30 min.	15-30 min.
	Jakobertor - Schwaben Center	30 min.	30 min.	30 min.
	Bergstrasse - Rotes Tor - Bärenwirt / DRvS - Oberhausen train station - Pfersee Süd	15-30 min.	15-30 min.	15-30 min.
	Schwabencenter - Textile Museum	15-30 min.	30 min.	30 min.
	St. Anton settlement - Schleiermacherstraße	10 - 30 min.	by line 210/211	by line 211
	Inningen - Göggingen - Bergheim	30 min.	60 min.	60 min.
	Bergstrasse - Exhibition Center - Königsplatz	15 minutes.	15 minutes.	15 minutes.
42	Pfersee - Pröllstrasse - Bergstrasse - Maria Stern	30 min.	No operation	No operation
	Deaconess House - Anna-Hintermayr-Stift	60 min.	60 min.	60 min.
	Hammerschmiede - Stephingerberg - Königsplatz	15 minutes.	20 min.	No operation
	Berliner Allee - media center	15 - 30 min.	60 min.	No operation

Call collective taxi

Indoor zones 10 and 20 are served by five shared call taxi lines (AST). Depending on your needs, you will be served partly by buses and partly by real taxis; you need to make an appointment by telephone no later than 30 minutes before departure.

line	route	Clock on weekdays	Clock on Saturdays	Clock on Sundays
38 AST	Inningen - Göggingen - Bergheim	30 min.	60 min.	60 min.
	Göggingen retirement home - Göggingen town hall - Welfenstraße - Göggingen town hall - Göggingen retirement home	30 min.	60 min.	60 min.
	Siebenbrunn - Haunstetten North and back	if necessary	if necessary	if necessary
	Wellenburg - Radegundis - Pfersee and Radegundis - Wellenburg - Göggingen Town Hall	if necessary	if necessary	if necessary
	Inningen - Göggingen - Bergheim and back	30 min.	30 min.	30 min.

night bus

In zones 10 and 20 there are a total of six night bus routes (five from the AVG and one from the GVG ), which run on the nights from Thursday to Friday, Friday to Saturday and from Saturday to Sunday between 0:00 and 3:00 a.m.

line	route	Tact
	Rudolf-Diesel-Gymnasium / Hochzoll North - Lechhausen - Königsplatz - Göggingen - Bergheim - Inningen and back	60 min.
	Steppach - Kriegshaber - Königsplatz - Pfersee - Leitershofen - Stadtbergen - Deuringen - Steppach and back	60 min.
	Neusäß - Bärenkeller - Oberhausen - Königsplatz - University Quarter - Haunstetten and back	60 min.
	Lechhausen Schlößle - Hammerschmiede - Firnhaberau - Königsplatz - Hochzoll Süd and back	60 min.
	Friedberg - Herrenbach - Königsplatz - Haunstetten and back	60 min.

Unofficial special line 680

The AVG operates an unofficial special line for shuttle bus services under route number 680.

vehicles

Trams

→ Main article : Augsburg trams

An overview of the history of use of the tram vehicles in Augsburg and detailed lists can be found in the corresponding main article. There you will find details about the tram vehicles and types that are and were used in Augsburg, current work vehicles and the historical vehicles that are still available today. You can also find an overview of their history of operations in Augsburg, their technology and special incidents in Augsburg.

City buses

→ Main article : Augsburg city buses

An overview of the history of use of the buses in Augsburg and detailed lists can be found in the relevant main article.

Controlled front entry

Since March 30, 2015, on bus route 32, the driver has only been able to board the bus all day and every day by showing his driver's license. The aim of the test is to reduce deliberate and unintentional fare dodging, e.g. B. forgotten cancellation of stripe tickets. The separate entry and exit areas should also improve the flow of passengers. However, this rule is waived in the case of long delays, passengers with bulky or heavy luggage, passengers with prams and physically handicapped people. Critics of the boarding rule argue that the additional controls overwhelm drivers and passengers. A thorough inspection would cause considerable delays, especially during rush hour.

Since August 1, 2015, the controlled front entry has been valid all day on all bus routes, but not for rail replacement services with buses. During the test phase on line 32, there was an increase in fare income of around 20 percent. A customer survey found that around 75 percent of passengers rate the front entry as either neutral or positive.

Key figures

Development of key figures for the Augsburger Verkehrsgesellschaft between 2005 and 2015

In the period from 2005 to 2015, the Augsburger Verkehrsgesellschaft carried between 55 and 59 million passengers annually. Within these 10 years, the number of vehicle kilometers driven remained relatively constant at 10 million. The length of the bus and tram lines, on the other hand, decreased from a total of 292 kilometers (2005) to 179 kilometers (2015). The main reason for reducing the length of the line was the commissioning of tram line 6 in 2010 and the associated adaptation of the bus network. The diagram opposite shows the individual key figures with reference to the fiscal year.

Personnel policy

When the AVG was founded, Stadtwerke Augsburg Verkehrs-GmbH stopped hiring new bus drivers. From then on, new bus drivers were only hired by AVG and received less salary from AVG than the drivers of Stadtwerke Augsburg Verkehrs-GmbH. Since several warning strikes have meanwhile achieved that the AVG bus drivers receive a similarly high salary as the drivers of Stadtwerke Verkehrs GmbH, the Augsburger Verkehrs-Servicegesellschaft mbH (ASG for short) was founded in 2010 . ASG is a subsidiary of AVG and, just like AVG, also a group of companies or a branch (group structure) of Stadtwerke Augsburg . Now the AVG is also no longer hiring new bus drivers and new bus drivers are only hired by the ASG and receive a lower salary than the AVG drivers. However, the ASG bus drivers drive on behalf of the AVG on their own bus lines as well as the rail replacement services of the tram lines.

See also

• Augsburg city buses
• Augsburg tram vehicles
• Mobility hub Augsburg
• Augsburg trolleybus
• Augsburg tram

literature

• Albrecht Sappel: To Königsplatz and back! 100 years of urban traffic in Augsburg . Alba, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-87094-325-4 .
• Herbert Waßner: 100 years of Augsburg local transport vehicles in the picture . FdAS, Augsburg 1998.
• Friends of the Augsburger Tram (Ed.): Review of 20 years of “Friends of the Augsburger Tram” . 2009.

Web links

• Company information

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Genios company directory ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ 2006 Annual Report
3. ↑ augsburger-allgemeine.de
4. ↑ augsburger-allgemeine.de
5. ↑ tenders.dgmarket.com
6. ↑ augsburger-allgemeine.de
7. ↑ https://www.sw-augsburg.de/fileadmin/content/6_pdf_Downloadcenter/3_Mobilitaet/Fahrplaene/Nachtbus.pdf
8. ^ Statistical yearbook of the city of Augsburg 2016 . Page 71.
9. ↑ augsburger-allgemeine.de
10. ↑ sw-augsburg.de
11. ↑ sw-augsburg.de ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ augsburger-allgemeine.de