DB Regio

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DB Regio AG

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legal form Corporation
founding June 1, 1999
Seat Frankfurt am Main , Germany
management
  • Oliver Terhaag
  • Frank Klingenhöfer
  • Ulrike Haber-Schilling
Number of employees 36,374 (2019)
sales 6.4 billion EUR (2013)
Branch transport
Website dbregio.de

The DB Regio AG , based in Frankfurt am Main is a German railway company (PSC). It is a 100 percent subsidiary of the Deutsche Bahn Group and is part of the DB Regio business unit , which also includes RegioNetz Verkehrs GmbH and other independent subsidiaries.

As a transport company that mainly operates nationwide , the company is responsible for all regional transport activities ( rail and bus ) of the DB Group in Germany. This also includes transports to neighboring countries. The company operates its own workshops to maintain the vehicle fleet.

The company serves 310 routes with 22,800 trains and 295,000 stops every day. It has about ten million customers.

Corporate structure

Joint headquarters of DB Regio and DB Fernverkehr in Frankfurt's Gallusviertel

The headquarters of DB Regio in Frankfurt, located in the former headquarters of Deutsche Bahn , is responsible for business development and focuses on the framework and service functions for the regional units when concluding transport contracts and tenders. She also supports the regions in the areas of price and revenue management, marketing and traffic planning. In addition, the Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Rhein-Main and Stuttgart S-Bahns are coordinated and controlled from the headquarters.

Rail division

The rail division is divided into seven regions. There are also five urban S-Bahn trains that run directly from the headquarters, as well as the independent DB RegioNetz Verkehrs GmbH .

Organizational structure of DB Regio Schiene

Regions

S-Bahn

DB RegioNetz Verkehrs GmbH

In this subsidiary of DB Regio there is a department for each RegioNetwork. There are the following RegioNetworks, each of which works largely economically as a profit center :

Regional transport Start Deutschland GmbH

The company operating under the start brand is a subsidiary of DB Regio. It should ensure success in tenders / networks that have been lost in the past. Regionalverkehr Start Deutschland GmbH is divided into regional subsidiaries. These are currently:

  • Verkehrsgesellschaft Start Unterelbe mbH
  • Transport company Start Emscher-Münsterland mbH
  • Transport company Start Niedersachsen mbH
  • Transport company Start Augsburg mbH
  • Verkehrsgesellschaft Start NRW mbH
  • Verkehrsgesellschaft Start Ostsachsen mbH, formerly Verkehrsgesellschaft Start Ruhr-Sieg mbH

Bus division

The bus division includes 23 bus companies , which in turn have majority stakes in other bus companies. With around 725 million passengers and a transport performance of 8.4 billion passenger kilometers, DB Regio Bus is one of the largest providers in German bus transport. Around 13,400 buses are used nationwide. The market share in the public service bus market in Germany is around 9 percent. (As of 2014)

subsidiary company

DB Regio has numerous subsidiaries. At the end of 2017 these were (selection of consolidated companies):

An overview of former subsidiaries is provided by: List of companies in the DB Group # Former Group companies .

history

Regional management of DB Regio (as of 2002)

The DB Regio AG emerged in the course of the second stage of the rail reform on January 1, 1999 from the local transport division of Deutsche Bahn AG. Original plans were for them to be listed on the stock exchange by 2003 . An IPO has not yet been implemented.

On February 12, 1998, the articles of association for DB Regio GmbH were concluded and the company was entered in the commercial register on April 6, 1998. Its sole purpose was the "preparation of the outsourcing of the local passenger transport division of Deutsche Bahn Aktiengesellschaft to a newly founded stock corporation in legal, economic and organizational terms". With a resolution dated April 27, 1999, the company was renamed Deutsche Bahn Erste Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH , the object of which was the "management of own assets and any activities that are conducive to the aforementioned purpose".

The spin-off of DB Regio Aktiengesellschaft was completed when it was entered in the commercial register on June 1, 1999. The purpose of the company was: “Providing, marketing and coordinating transport services for rail and road local public transport and related services; Operation, maintenance, procurement and manufacture of vehicles of all kinds, in particular locomotives , railcars , railroad cars and buses; Managing businesses of related companies for their account as well as providing consulting services for third parties. ”The company's share capital initially amounted to DM 800 million, which was divided into 80 million shares of various shareholders. The first chairman of the board was Klaus Daubertshäuser . The company's articles of association had already been adopted on November 24, 1998.

In the years 2001 to 2002 a changed management structure was implemented in the company. The previously centrally controlled company was replaced by nine independent national companies, to which the regional train and bus companies were subordinated. The aim of the restructuring was to improve profitability. 400 of the 700 jobs in the DB regional headquarters and around 2500 jobs in the entire company were saved. The regional rail and road traffic was transferred from January 2002 to nine regional lines (north, northeast, Lower Saxony / Bremen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, southwest, southeast, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg). The market share of DB Regio in local rail passenger transport in Germany was 92 percent, in the remaining public transport it was seven.

In 2007, DB Regio generated 70% of its turnover from payments made by the federal states for the provision of local public transport , 29% from ticket sales and 1% from other income. More recent figures are not published.

In 2008, the company founded DB Regio Rheinland GmbH for the first time for the Rhein-Sieg-Express . After winning the tender, around 180 employees from DB Regio NRW should switch to the subsidiary that is not bound by the collective agreement of the group and receive around a fifth less wages there, according to a press report. After protests, the company was merged again with DB Regio NRW in 2011. A branch collective agreement agreed in February 2011 is to apply to future DB Regio subsidiaries.

From 2004 to the end of 2010, the subsidiary DB Stadtverkehr founded for this purpose was responsible for the operation of bus and urban transport. On 23 February 2010 it was announced that the two S-Bahn production units of S-Bahn Berlin GmbH and S-Bahn Hamburg GmbH are assumed from 1 March 2010, DB Regio. On January 1, 2011, DB Stadtverkehr was dissolved. At the same time, a new regional bus division was created.

On January 1, 2015, the two regions Southwest and Rhine-Neckar were merged to form the new DB Regio Southwest region.

A further restructuring took place on January 1, 2017, during which the DB Regio Südwest and DB Regio Hessen were merged to form DB Regio Mitte .

As part of “Zukunft Bahn Regio”, the S-Bahns Berlin, Frankfurt (Main), Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart have been working more independently since the beginning of 2017 and reporting directly to their board of directors.

Logo of the subsidiary start

In the late summer of 2016, the company announced that it would take part in upcoming award procedures with smaller, more flexible units. Then the regional traffic Start Germany was founded, which takes part in the respective tenders with its regional subsidiaries . The DB Regio subsidiary was able to record its first successes in 2017 in the Lower Elbe network.

Activities abroad

The company's first foreign order was a two-hour cycle between the Ausserfern and the Allgäu , which was offered with five pairs of trains daily from February 3, 2001.

In order to be able to take part in tenders in the Scandinavian region, the subsidiary DB Regio Sverige AB was founded in Stockholm in 2002 .

In March 2008, Deutsche Bahn took over Laing Rail from the English investment company John Laing. These include 100 percent of the Chiltern Railways transport company and 50 percent of the joint ventures Wrexham, Shropshire & Marylebone Railways Company Ltd (WSMR) and London Overground Rail Operations Ltd (LOROL). These company holdings were assigned to DB Regio and operated under the name DB Regio UK .

End of 2009, DB Regio had a first local rail gained -Ausschreibung in other European countries. From December 2010, the subsidiary DB Regio Sverige in the southern Swedish province of Östergötland carried out the regional rail traffic operated under the name Östgötapendeln . The contract has a term of ten years. Be inserted between Jönköping , Linköping and Norrköping 18 vehicles from the PTAs are made ÖstgötaTrafiken and Jönköping Länstrafik. 2010 a joint venture came to DB Regio Sverige recreate the Botniatåg added, with the Swedish state railway SJ , the regional traffic on the Bothnia operates.

The international local transport activities of DB Group have been bundled in the DB Arriva business unit since January 1, 2011 . The British and Swedish parts of DB Regio were therefore taken over by DB Arriva. DB Regio Sverige was renamed Arriva Östgötapendeln .

Vehicle fleet

For some years now, DB Regio has been purchasing new vehicles for local rail transport, some of which - contractually secured - are (co-) financed or promoted by the authorities. These include trains consisting of double-deck cars and electric locomotives of the DB Class 146 or diesel locomotives of the DB 245 series for the Regional Express and electric railcars of DB series 422 , 423 , 424 , 425 / 426 , 429 , 430 , 440 , 442 , 445/446 as well as diesel multiple units of the DB series 620 , 622 , 623 , 640 , 641 , 642 , 643 , 644 , 646 , 648 , 650 for the S-Bahn and regional train traffic.

Furthermore, there are still railcars and locomotives from the stocks of the former Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche Reichsbahn in the DB Regio vehicle fleet. These include the class 218 diesel locomotives, the class 111 , 112 , 114 , 120.2 and 143 electric locomotives, the class 420 S-Bahn railcars and the class 628/629 diesel railcars . The class 110 and class 610 were parked by DB Regio.

In addition, the inventory includes passenger coaches of the types n-coaches , Halberstadt center entry coaches , Modus coaches , older double-decker coaches and x-coaches . Some Interregio and Intercity cars were also taken over from DB Fernverkehr .

Furthermore, the vehicles of the tilting technology series 611 and 612 (with the exception of one railcar from DB Systemtechnik ) are owned by DB Regio. Between 2009 and 2011, DB Regio took over all 25 class 182 locomotives from DB Cargo Deutschland (then DB Schenker Rail) and equipped them with a local transport package.

DB Regio would like to equip a large part of the local trains with free internet access via WLAN by 2020 and is in talks with the customers.

New procurement

In 2007, DB Regio signed a framework agreement with Bombardier for the development, manufacture and delivery of up to 321 class 442 electric multiple units (Talent 2) . The contract was worth 1.2 billion euros. By 2014, all vehicles were called up from the contract.

In April 2011, a framework agreement was signed with Bombardier for the delivery of 200 TRAXX diesel locomotives ( class 245 ). The contract is worth EUR 600 million and has a term of nine years. When the contract was signed, the first 20 locomotives for DB Regio were called up.

At the end of 2011, the company awarded a contract for the delivery of up to 400 regional multiple units. However, the contract was not concluded with one manufacturer or consortium, as is usually the case, but with three different suppliers. These are the Berlin railway manufacturer Stadler , the German subsidiary of the French Alstom group and the Spanish manufacturer CAF . The contract runs until 2018 and is worth up to 2 billion euros.

In 2012, DB Regio signed two framework agreements with the Polish manufacturer Pesa for the possible delivery of up to 470 diesel multiple units. These are one, two and three-part vehicles of the 631, 632 and 633 series ( Pesa Link ).

In 2013, a contract for the development, manufacture and delivery of six double-decker trains was signed with the Czech manufacturer Škoda Transportation for the first time . The trains consist of a class 102 locomotive , five intermediate cars and a control car. The trains will be used as NIM-Express on the Nuremberg-Ingolstadt-Munich route from December 2016 . What is special is that the trains are designed for a speed of 200 km / h, with approval for 189 km / h being sought.

According to its own information from mid-2015, the company intended to only use air-conditioned vehicles in Germany from the end of 2016.

Color scheme and design

DB Regio vehicles are usually painted in a uniform corporate design . Both the buses and the rail vehicles are painted in traffic red ( RAL color 3020). The doors of the rail vehicles are set off in light gray (RAL 7035). In the lower and upper areas there is a narrow light gray stripe. The upper stripe is, however, not always present, depending on the series. A broad basalt gray (RAL 7012) strip closes the bottom. All cars and multiple units (except for S-Bahn) also bear the brand name REGIO followed by the DB logo . In some regions, a line designation is also added below, e.g. B. Mainfrankenbahn. A small version of the DB Bahn brand name can be found on the doors of the buses . In addition, the buses bear the offer name at the rear, e.g. B. Rhineland bus.

For some tenders, the transport authorities request their own design. That is why, for example, the multiple units from DB Regio on the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland are painted silver gray. In Rhineland-Palatinate, vehicles with the basic color white and with gray and red elements on the locomotive heads are used in the RE network southwest.

In some federal states, such as In Schleswig-Holstein and Baden-Württemberg, for example, the trains are painted in the respective design of the local rail transport authority .

  • Examples

  • Typical train in German regional traffic with double-decker cars and in a traffic red paint scheme

  • Bus from DB Regio Rheinland

  • Talent 2 of the S-Bahn Central Germany

  • Brand name with line designation

  • Trains in state livery, like here: Schleswig-Holstein ( Nah.SH )

Mass transit products

DB Regio's range of products includes the Interregio-Express , Regional-Express and Regionalbahn products , which differ from one another in particular in terms of stations and travel speed . In addition, DB Regio also operates S-Bahn trains in major urban centers .

Inter-Regio-Express (IRE)

Interregio-Express from Hamburg to Berlin

The Interregio-Express connects medium-sized and larger metropolitan areas in a regular schedule. The IRE was originally introduced as an interregional replacement funded by the federal states. Over time, however, other lines were added to the IRE network. It is used in southern Germany in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and across borders in Switzerland and France. The first IRE line between Hamburg and Berlin was opened in northern Germany in 2014. The Interregio-Express is DB Regio's fastest product in local transport and connects it with long-distance transport.

Regional Express (RE)

RE to Stuttgart in the bwegt country design

The regional express runs on a regular schedule over an average route length of 250 kilometers throughout Germany. It differs from the regional train through greater distances between stops and a higher travel speed. The Regional-Express connects the region to long-distance traffic and the S-Bahn.

Regional train (RB)

The regional train represents the basic offer in the entire German area. Except for the parallel traffic to the S-Bahn it stops at all stations. This ensures a networked offer within the respective region and acts as a feeder to long-distance transport.

S-Bahn (S)

Train of the S-Bahn RheinNeckar in Mannheim

Mainly in metropolitan areas, the S-Bahn offers a service with a comparatively small distance between stops. The trains run on a regular schedule with a tight train sequence.

bus

Bus traffic is carried out throughout Germany independently or on behalf of cities, districts or other customers (e.g. companies for professional traffic). As a rule, regionally anchored independent bus companies (subsidiaries) are responsible for this.

Ticket offers

In addition to the standardized local transport tariffs of the respective transport authorities, which are responsible for ordering the individual transports, DB Regio also offers comprehensive flat-rate tickets. In 1995, such a flat-rate ticket was introduced for the first time with the Schöne-Wochen-Ticket . This is a permanent special offer and entitles up to five people to travel on all DB Regio local trains throughout Germany on Saturdays or Sundays. Also included are public transport journeys in almost all transport associations .

Package offers in the individual regions are referred to as country tickets . The country tickets enable journeys throughout the region at a flat rate. These tickets are available in single and multi-person versions. The first national ticket was introduced in Bavaria in 1997. Over ten million country tickets are sold every year.

In 2009 the cross-country ticket was introduced. It closes the gap between the national-wide ticket for the weekend, which is only valid at the weekend, and the country tickets which are also valid during the week, but which are regionally limited.

The Have a Nice Weekend Ticket was discontinued in 2019 because, according to Deutsche Bahn, the demand for the cross-country ticket is much greater and it is therefore more profitable.

competition

In contrast to its sister company DB Fernverkehr , DB Regio mostly does not operate its trains on its own, but runs on behalf of the transport authorities for local rail passenger transport . After the first stage of the railway reform in 1994, the then German Bahn AG initially went nationwide nearly all local rail -Services. Due to the increasing allocation of regional rail transport services via competitive procedures, DB’s competitors, such as Transdev , Netinera or the metronom Eisenbahngesellschaft , were gradually commissioned to carry out local rail passenger transport on German lines and lines. The decision of some public transport authorities to conclude long-term transport contracts (over ten years and more) with DB Regio without a public invitation to tender was widely criticized.

The total volume in German regional rail transport is a total of 640 million train kilometers per year. According to its own information, the company needs a profit rate of 70 percent in order to keep its market share stable and to cover its fixed costs for existing capacities. At the end of 2015, the company expected a profit rate of less than 40 percent in the current year.

In the years 2012 to 2014, the penalties for quality failures and train cancellations were, according to the company, “in the mid three-digit million range”. According to the company, the “personnel cost and productivity disadvantage depending on the region” is “up to 20% depending on the region” despite the industry collective agreement.

At the end of 2015, Deutsche Bahn announced that it would guarantee punctuality free of contractual penalties by 2020. In addition, all vehicles should be available in operation, the commissioning of new vehicles should be completely punctual and all comfort disruptions should be resolved by the next day. WLAN is to be offered in all tenders and existing networks and digital sales are to be increased to 50 percent. The company also wants to be perceived as a reliable partner for all public transport authorities by 2020 and to occupy “the top places” in quality applications with all transport contracts. In addition, a cost reduction at competitive level is planned. In 2020, almost 70 percent of the advertised train kilometers should be won. The number of so-called overhead positions should be reduced by almost 20 percent by 2020, at competitive level.

See also: Regionalization Act

year Written out Won
number Million TrKm number Million TrKm %
2011 81 14th 58 72
2012 23 70 12 36 52
2013 35 108 21st 81 75

Deutsche Bahn's market share in German local rail passenger transport is declining and in 2015 was 71 percent. In the first half of 2015, Deutsche Bahn won 27 percent of the train kilometers advertised in local transport. DB Regio generated a profit of 323 million euros in this period.

Others

DB Regio represents the DB Group as a member of the tariff association of federal and non-federal railways in Germany (TBNE).

See also

Web links

Commons : DB Regio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Changes on the board of DB Regio AG. In: deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn, December 1, 2017, archived from the original on February 10, 2018 ; accessed on December 2, 2017 .
  3. ↑ https://www.dbregio.de/db_regio/view/wir/zahlen-daten-ffekten.shtml
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  5. ↑ a b c d Deutsche Bahn (ed.): Future Bahn - Together for more quality, more customers, more success . 2015, Section II.2.3 DB Regio: "The preferred local rail transport company - customer-oriented and efficient" , p. 25–29 ( deutschebahn.com ( memento from February 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 1.5 MB ]). Bahn Zukunft - Together for more quality, more customers, more success ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutschebahn.com
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  19. ↑ About us - Start Lower Elbe. Retrieved January 5, 2019 .
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