DB Station & Service

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DB Station & Service AG

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legal form Corporation
founding January 1, 1999
Seat Berlin , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Bernd Koch (Chairman), Sven Hantel, Andreas Springer
Number of employees 4950 (June 4, 2016)
sales around € 1200 million
Branch Transport infrastructure
Website www.bahnhof.de

The DB Station & Service AG is the operating company of the transport stations on the route network of DB Netz AG . It is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn and, as such, forms the passenger stations business area within the Infrastructure and Services Management Board division. The business purpose of DB Station & Service is the operation and maintenance of the train stations and stops. The company manages around 5,400 traffic stations in the area of ​​Deutsche Bahn.

history

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The DB Station & Service AG went on 1 January 1999 as part of the second stage of the railway reform from the division passenger stations of Deutsche Bahn AG forth.

Numerous stations have been modernized in recent years. This particularly affected the large train stations; they were equipped with extensive shopping facilities. For some years now, DB Station & Service AG has been investing - according to its own information - increasingly in the more than 4,000 small and medium-sized stations and stops. The actual commitment to smaller train stations is heavily criticized by the public and by numerous local politicians. A first attempt was the standardized concept of DB Pluspunkte , according to which the station could be equipped with additional modular components depending on the volume of traffic. Because of the high cost of manufacturing the modular system, the low level of customer acceptance and the infrastructure that was already in place, this was abandoned. In 2001, DB Station & Service AG defined uniform quality standards for stations and started a program to implement them in existing buildings. The stations and stops are divided into seven station categories.

In 2003, DB Station & Service AG and DB Fernverkehr AG started the RIS ( Traveler Information System) program to improve on-the-go information. The aim is to provide comprehensive information about normal operations and, in particular, to quickly point out operational disruptions and alternative options. To improve service, safety and cleanliness, DB Station & Service AG introduced the 3-S control center : a permanently manned position that takes care of coordinating these tasks.

The total length of the 3125 platform roofs is 239.3 km.

By the end of 2008, according to the company, two thirds of the stations were barrier-free and in 1830 they were equipped with guide strips for the blind . As part of the federal government's economic stimulus package, Deutsche Bahn was to receive 300 million euros in order to modernize 2,050 small and medium-sized stations by 2011. In this context, 1,747 are to receive passenger information systems , 575 a "general upgrade" ( elevation of platforms , renovation of floor coverings, "removal of unnecessary systems"). 217 receive more suitable weather protection, 312 better lighting and 83 optimized access routes. In addition, the reception buildings in 30 cities are being completely renovated.

DB Station & Service AG consumes around 380 GWh of electrical energy annually, around 60% of which is used for lighting and 40% for that of the platforms.

Large station projects are planned in Stuttgart and Munich . As part of a station offensive , new stations are to be built in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. With the Zukunft Bahn program presented in December 2015 , the DB Group plans to build 350 such stations by 2025.

In January 2014, DB Station & Service opened its first long-distance bus stop at Berlin Südkreuz . In September 2015, the company's sixth long-distance bus stop went into operation in Göttingen.

At the end of 2015, as part of the Zukunft Bahn program, Deutsche Bahn announced that its stations would be a figurehead for the company in the future. Large train stations should be able to compete with large airports in terms of supply and convenience. Some of the stations have a significant investment backlog. Among other things, so-called basic services and quality in the 50 most important long-distance train stations are to be improved and important S-Bahn tunnel stations modernized. Furthermore, the rail connection in the area should be improved as part of a station offensive. The reliability of elevators and escalators should be increased from 85 and 89% in metropolitan areas to over 97% in metropolitan areas.

business development

In the 2014 financial year, the company generated earnings of 188 million euros with sales of 1.155 billion euros. According to the company, 30% of sales are from the rental of retail space, 70% from station stops; for the result, the relationship is reversed.

At the 5383 train stations, 145.4 million station stops were counted. The company employed 4,855 people at the end of the year. Around 17,000 tenants have rented 1.1 million square meters of retail space in Deutsche Bahn stations (as of September 2011). The most strongly represented branch is the station book trade .

According to the company, 80% of the passengers are at 20% of the stations. 40% of the train stations in eastern Germany are used by fewer than 100 travelers a day.

Sale of reception buildings

Reception buildings are connected to around 3,000 train stations and stops ; Of these, around 1,400 were sold to municipalities, private investors and capital investors between 2000 and 2008. At the end of 2004 it was planned to sell all but “operationally necessary” reception buildings - at medium-sized and large stations. Around 1800 reception buildings were sold between 2000 and the beginning of 2013. In 2010, Deutsche Bahn still operated 1,600 station buildings itself.

Around 500 buildings were sold in 2000. In mid-2001 the company sold a package of 1,000 train station buildings (mostly in the new federal states) to the Wiesbaden real estate company Bar . At the end of 2007, a consortium made up of Procom Invest (Hamburg) and Patron Capital Ltd (London) acquired a package of 493 reception buildings. With this package, the buyer had committed to invest a total of 15 million euros within 5 years.

Around 600 to 800 station buildings are to remain the property of the Deutsche Bahn as a so-called core portfolio ; the rest should also be sold (as of 2008). The company is looking (as of March 2011) for an investor for around 900 station buildings. According to the company's own information from mid-2014, around 2436 station buildings, which are no longer profitable for Deutsche Bahn, will be sold in the coming years.

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  1. ↑ Bernd Koch new at the helm of DB Station & Service AG. In: deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn, April 29, 2018, accessed on April 29, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Company information . ( Memento from June 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on deutschebahn.com. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d e New opportunities for old reception buildings. In: DB World . Edition March 2008, p. 11.
  4. ^ Announcement Second stage of the rail reform. In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . Issue 1/2, 1998, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 2.
  5. ↑ Message number of the month. In: DB World . Edition March 2008, p. 10.
  6. ↑ Announcement service for hearing loss in Düsseldorf . In: mobile . November 2008, p. 65.
  7. ↑ Opportunity instead of crisis . In: mobile . June 2009, pp. 42-46.
  8. ↑ Did you know? (PDF; 2.13 MB) (No longer available online.) In: StationsAnzeiger, edition 14. DB Station & Service AG, August 2015, p. 5 , archived from the original on January 31, 2016 ; accessed on January 31, 2016 .
  9. ↑ a b c d Kerstin Schwenn: Our train station should be more beautiful . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 15, 2015, p. 19 ( faz.net ).
  10. ↑ For more quality, customers and success . In: DB World . No. 1 , 2016, p. 1 .
  11. ↑ Südkreuz - since January 2014 with a long-distance bus stop. S-Bahn Berlin GmbH, July 15, 2014, accessed on February 4, 2016 .
  12. ^ RB Nord: New long-distance bus station inaugurated in Göttingen. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: StationsAnzeiger, edition December 15 , 2015, p. 7 , archived from the original on February 4, 2016 ; Retrieved February 4, 2016 .
  13. ↑ DB AG (Ed.): Future Rail - Together for more quality, more customers, more success . Berlin 2015, p. 30, 31 ( deutschebahn.com ( memento from January 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF] autumn). Future Bahn - Together for more quality, more customers, more success ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2016 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutschebahn.com
  14. ↑ a b DB Station & Service AG (Ed.): DB Station & Service AG Annual Report 2014 . Berlin 2015, p. (Inside of coat) ( deutschebahn.com ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF]). DB Station & Service AG Annual Report 2014 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutschebahn.com
  15. ↑ This is what Deutsche Bahn does for you - every day! . In: mobile . September 2011, p. 38 f.
  16. ↑ Moving the future - connecting people. (PDF; 10.5 MB) Deutsche Bahn AG, October 1, 2010, p. 89 , archived from the original on December 24, 2013 ; accessed on November 27, 2015 .
  17. ^ Klaus Ott: Bahn pushes and deletes 141 projects . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . No. 296 , December 20, 2004, p. 24 .
  18. ↑ a b c German Bundestag (ed.): Answer of the Federal Government to the minor question from MPs Martin Burkert, Sören Bartol, Gerold Reichenbach, other MPs and the SPD parliamentary group - printed matter 17/12912 - sale, condition and maintenance of the station buildings of the Deutsche Bahn AG (PDF; 114 kB). Printed matter 17/13008 of April 9, 2013, p. 1 f.
  19. ↑ Short messages. In: Railway courier . No. 345, June 2001, ISSN  0170-5288 , p. 9.
  20. ^ Deutsche Bahn boss Rüdiger Grube pushes the sale of train stations. . In: Wirtschaftswoche , March 18, 2011.
  21. ↑ "Three, Two, One - Mine" . In: DB World . No. 6 , 2014, p. 5 .