Bus traffic in Berlin

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Busverkehr Berlin KG

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legal form Limited partnership
founding 2nd January 1969
Seat Grenzallee 15

12057 Berlin

management Lothar Kastner (managing director)
Number of employees 210
Branch Passenger transportation
Website www.bvb.net
As of August 1, 2017

The bus Berlin (BVB) is a specialized in coach hire companies in Berlin . The state-owned Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) hold a minority stake of 25.1% in BVB. The company owns more than 100 coaches, sightseeing and regular buses. BVB has over 200 employees, making it the largest private bus company in Berlin and Brandenburg .

history

The foundation is dated January 2, 1969. At that time the bus company Kastner , the Bavarian travel agency Berlin and the bus company Der Berliner bought the long-standing bus company Weinrich . Since then, BVB KG has been offering company trips and renting out coaches.

The subsidiary Freizeitreisen was founded in 1974 by the shareholders of BVB. At this time, day trips and short trips as well as the first vacation trips were offered. From this a service provider has developed with a growing range of bus, plane, car and boat trips. The tour operator Weichert-Reisen GmbH & Co. Rundreise-Touristik KG , founded in the 1950s, has also been part of the corporate group since 1998 . Both companies have been based in Berlin since they were founded. Today these subsidiaries operate under the name BVB-Touristik .

The company maintains buses for sightseeing tours in Berlin and ran regular long-distance bus services between Berlin and the Bavarian Forest from 1985 (at that time still in GDR transit traffic) to 2014 within the BerlinLinienBus network .

BVB headquarters

The headquarters of BVB Berlin is at Grenzallee 15 in Berlin Neukölln. At the depot there is an in-house specialist workshop, a washing facility for buses and its own gas station.

Business areas

The core business is bus rental . Customers from the fields of business, sport and politics included the German Football Association , Daimler AG , Bayer and the German Bundestag .

In addition, together with the bus companies BBS Berliner Bären Stadtrundfahrt GmbH, Bayern Express & P. ​​Kühn Berlin (BEX) and BEROLINA Reisen Gräfe in the City Circle transport association, BVB is the largest provider of hop-on, hop-off city tours in Berlin.

The lines 140, 184, 344 and N84 are operated for the Berlin public transport company.

BVB is a member of the Federal Association of German Bus Operators .

Vehicle fleet

The 78 BVB coaches are from the brands Mercedes, Setra and Neoplan.

Seats Bus model image
1–5 seats Mercedes V250 BlueTEC
Image by Benjamin Schubert
7–15 seats Mercedes Sprinter
Image by Benjamin Schubert
16–30 seats MB Tourismo K
Image by Benjamin Schubert
31–49 seats MB Travego
Image by Benjamin Schubert
50–53 seats Neoplan Cityliner
Image by Benjamin Schubert
54–78 seats Setra 431 DT
a picture by Benjamin Schubert

Training center

Busverkehr Berlin KG offers training in the following professions:

  • Professional drivers
  • Specialist in driving
  • Traffic service clerk (m / f)
  • Motor vehicle mechatronics technician with a focus on commercial vehicle technology (m / f)

Trivia

Some official team buses (including the bus of the German national team) during the football World Cup in Germany were driven by BVB. BVB and Freizeit-Reisen are involved in the Kinderlaecheln initiative that emerged from the initiative Berlin companies help children with cancer - the support association for children with cancer in Berlin-Buch .

year Event customer Passengers
2012 Eurotraining Mercedes A-Class Daimler AG 40,000
2013 Leaping Ahead event John Deeree 5,000
2014 DFB Cup final Borussia Dortmund 2,000
2015 UEFA Champions League Final Transport of official guests and sponsors 4,000
2016 Rowing championships The 36 national teams 1,000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b BVB-Touristiks_ÜberUns. BVB.net, accessed on July 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ BVB fleet. BVB.net, accessed on July 28, 2017 .
  3. ↑ BVB job advertisements. BVB.net, accessed on July 28, 2017 .
  4. ↑ BUS DRIVER 01/2007