Dresden transport company

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Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG
DVB logo
Basic information
Company headquarters Dresden
Web presence dvb.de
owner Technische Werke Dresden GmbH
(indirectly the state capital Dresden)
Board Andreas Hemmersbach (finance and technology);

Lars Seiffert (Operations and Personnel)

Transport network Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe
Employee 2100,
157 trainees
sales 145.1dep1
Lines
Gauge 1450 mm
tram 12
bus 27
Other lines 2 mountain railways
3 Elbe ferries
CarGoTram
number of vehicles
Tram cars 47 NGT6DD-ER
13 NGT6DD-ZR
23 NGT8DD
40 NGT D8DD
43 NGT D12DD
12 Tatra powered rail cars (T4D-MT)
6 Tatra powered rail cars (TB4D)
5 powered end cars and 7 intermediate cars of
the freight tram ( CarGoTram )
Omnibuses 67 Mercedes-Benz Citaro articulated bus
8 Mercedes-Benz Citaro Hybrid
1 MAN Lion's City
30 MAN Lion's City articulated bus
3 MAN Lion's City Hybrid
7 Solaris Urbino
18 Solaris Urbino 18
1 Solaris Urbino 12 electric
6 Hess Swisshybrid
other vehicles 6 ferries
2 funicular cars
2 suspension railway cars
statistics
Passengers 164 million (2019)
Mileage 13.7 million Fplkm tram (2015)
13.2 million Fplkm bus (2015)
Stops 154 Tram
458 Bus
107 Bus and train together
6 ferry stations
4 mountain railway stations
Catchment area 428 km²dep1
Residents in the
catchment area 		0.616 million
Length of line network
Tram lines 212.9 kmdep1
Bus routes 308.2 kmdep1
Operating facilities
Depots 4th
Track length Route length 134.3 km of
passable tracks 296.1 kmdep1

The Dresden Transport AG , abbreviated DVB , is the municipal transport company of the city of Dresden . The company emerged on August 16, 1993 from the VEB Verkehrsbetriebe der Stadt Dresden and is integrated into the Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO). The series of forerunners of public transport in Dresden dates back to 1838.

Today the corporation operates twelve tram lines with a total length of 213 kilometers on a rail network of around 134 kilometers. The tram is supplemented by 27  city ​​bus routes with a total length of around 310 kilometers, the two Dresden mountain railways and three Elbe ferries, as well as the CarGoTram freight tram .

In 2019, DVB carried around 164 million passengers (2017: 160 million). The fare dodger quota is 2 percent.

history

precursor

Double deck car of one of the first horse trams in Dresden , Böhmischer Bahnhof - Tannenstraße (after 1881)

In 1838, a forerunner of public passenger transport was established in Dresden with the first horse-drawn bus line. In the following years this network was further expanded and also connected the closer suburbs. The first horse-drawn tram line was opened on September 26, 1872. Arnold von Ettlinger had acquired the concession, built the railway from Blasewitz to Dresden-Plauen and sold it to the Continentale-Pferdebahn-Aktiengesellschaft ( company headquarters in Berlin ). Horse trams gradually replaced the horse busses, the last two lines of which were discontinued in 1913.

The yellow and red trams

The first tram route ran from Pirnaischer Platz (the eastern entrance to the city center) to the affluent suburb of Blasewitz . Until 1873 the line was extended to Plauen . After this first line, however, horse-drawn bus lines were only reluctantly replaced. In 1879  the Tramways Company of Germany Ltd. leased based in London, this line and is committed to further expansion. Because of the color of their carriages, this company was popularly called The Yellow .

After differences of opinion between the city and the English company, the German tramway company in Dresden was licensed in 1889 . Because of the color of their carriages, this society was popularly called The Red . At first, this company was severely disadvantaged because it was not allowed to use the same routes as the yellow one . That changed on July 6, 1893, when the red company opened the first electric tram in Saxony from Schloßplatz to Blasewitz. The Tramways Company was only able to carry out an electrical operation on the suburban route between Blasewitz and Laubegast because the city did not grant foreign companies a license to operate electric trams. In 1894, the yellow company was therefore dissolved and the Dresden Tram Company was founded for its facilities in Dresden .

Association of local transport - the urban tram

The city of Dresden took over both tram companies in 1905 and merged them on January 1, 1906 to form the Dresden City Tram . From 1906, the municipal tram also took over the management of the meter-gauge Deuben freight railway , which only serves goods traffic . In 1912 the two mountain railways were also integrated.

The first bus line was opened on April 1, 1914 . This led from Dresden-Neustadt train station to Nürnberger Straße and lasted only a few months. As early as August 4, 1914, the omnibuses were confiscated by the army administration and did not return to Dresden. It was not until 1925 that bus and coach services were set up again.

In the late 1920s, the city planned to re-privatize the company. The Dresdner Überland-Verkehr GmbH (DRÜVEG) was founded in 1926 for cross- country routes (outside the city limits) . The Free State of Saxony incorporated the overland lines of the Lößnitzbahn , the Plauen basic railway , the suburban railway Loschwitz – Pillnitz , the Bühlauer Außenbahn and the suburban railway Cotta – Cossebaude as well as the industrial area - Klotzsche / Hellerau into this company . In 1928 the Lockwitztalbahn was added. With the exception of the Lockwitztalbahn, which the DRÜVEG operated as the only line itself, the Dresden tram was still in charge of operations.

Dresdner Straßenbahn AG

Tram operation in 1949 in the rubble field of the inner old town (view from the end of Prager Strasse along Seestrasse and Schloßstrasse to the Catholic Court Church and the Georgenbau of the Residenzschloss)

On January 1, 1930, the city tram was converted back into a private form and the Dresdner Straßenbahn AG was founded. In 1941 the DRÜVEG was taken over by the Dresdner Straßenbahn AG . The Lockwitztalbahn, previously operated by the DRÜVEG, now also belonged to the Dresdner Straßenbahn AG network.

The time after the war - Dresdner Verkehrsgesellschaft

As a result of the air raids on February 13 and 14, 1945 , the bus network largely failed. Vehicles that were still operational were initially used as trucks. It was not until February 20, 1949 that they were used as a replacement tram service (Bühlau - Weißig). The first regular bus line ran on October 24, 1949 (Line A Wölfnitz - Gompitz).

As early as 1945, the Ratssteinbruch in Plauenschen Grund was assigned to repair the absolutely most urgent damage to the track network of the Dresdner Straßenbahn AG . On August 31, 1946, Dresdner Straßenbahn AG was assigned to Dresdner Transport GmbH , which was only founded on January 1, 1946, while renaming it to Dresdner Verkehrsgesellschaft AG (DVG) . On December 19, 1946, DVG took over shares in the newly founded Dresdner Ratssteinbruch-Betriebs-Gesellschaft GmbH . After the referendum of June 30, 1946 , the former private companies Union-Krafttransport-Betriebe and the Friedrich Metzner repair and garage company were completely assigned to the DVG on January 14, 1947 (i.e. merged with the DVG). On March 20, 1947, the municipal transport office was taken over , which from that point on was operated as the DVG's own travel and information office. On October 13, 1947, DVG took over the Diabas gravel plant in Nentmannsdorf and on February 3, 1948 shares in the Gröba GmbH roof tile plant in Riesa . Shortly before the formation of the KWU , the Dresden Ratssteinbruch-Betriebs-Gesellschaft GmbH and the Dachziegelwerk Gröba GmbH were completely merged into the DVG.

On January 1, 1949, the DVG was converted with other companies into a company owned by the City of Dresden, Municipal Business Enterprise of the City of Dresden (KWU) , and in September 1949 was assigned the task of transporting the sick.

In 1949, a trolleybus line was gradually built on the basis of bus line C, which operated before the Second World War and which had not yet been put back into service . As the new bus line C, it was put into operation at the end of 1949 (according to the line system in 1969 and to this day: line 61).

VEB Verkehrsbetriebe der Stadt Dresden

Ikarus 180 in front of the newly built Interhotel Neva , around 1970

On April 1, 1951, the transport company was nationalized as VEB Verkehrsbetriebe of the City of Dresden and again became an independent company. The unrelated tasks (roof tile works, patient transport, etc.) were removed again. Only the Elbe ferries section remained with the new company.

Changes to the company name, such as at times in VEB (K) Verkehrsbetriebe der Stadt Dresden , did not result in any content changes: The (K) temporarily stood for district -managed and identified companies (as well as (B) for district-managed ) that were not central Accounting sovereignty of a ministry in Berlin.

In 1953, the transport services was the management of the industrial railway in the industrial area of the German National Railroad passed. In 1954 the transport companies received the first five buses from the Hungarian manufacturer Ikarus (type 601). 1956 followed five Ikarus 30, 1955/1956 25  Ikarus 60 , 1958–1967 63  Ikarus 66 , 1969–1973 the first articulated buses Ikarus 180 , 1970–1972 32 Ikarus 556, 1972–1988 104  Ikarus 260 and 1974–1988 115 cars of the articulated bus variant Ikarus 280. From 1962 to 1988, a total of 30 Ikarus buses of types 55 , 630 , 250 , 255, 256 , 211 and 425 were used for the transport of tour groups, city tours and the like .

In September 1963, due to a lack of staff, the vehicles began to be equipped with payment boxes ; the changeover to conductors-free operation ( OS operation ) gradually took place on a line-by-line basis - starting with line 20 - until 1967. At the end of April 1973, all urban transport vehicles operated by the Dresden Transport Authority - the first transport company in the GDR - were equipped with mechanical punching machines. This meant that the vehicles were cashless and tickets had to be purchased in advance.

In December 1975 the trolleybus service (line 61) was stopped and all journeys were made with diesel buses.

Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG

In the summer of 1990, the VEB Verkehrsbetriebe der Stadt Dresden became the property of the Treuhandanstalt . Since it was already clear at this point that the company would become the property of the City of Dresden again, the company could still be managed independently and without any significant external influences from the Treuhandanstalt . The conversion into a stock corporation was decided in 1990 and the transfer to the city of Dresden was carried out in 1991. As for the registration in the commercial register had been found that the conversion into an AG has not made in due form, the foundation had to be done a second time, to legally operating in today's legal form under the name on August 16, 1993 Dresden Transport Aktiengesellschaft converted has been. In this case, tariff and line Highness had passed in 1990 with the transfer of the VEB to the Treuhandanstalt to the city of Dresden, which introduced a new tariff system from June 1, 1991, is still valid in the principles and also the basis for the tariff of the transport association Upper Elbe was .

In 1997, the city of Dresden contributed the shares in DVB AG to the holding company Technische Werke Dresden GmbH (TWD), which was newly founded as a financial holding, in order to be able to use the fiscal cross-link for energy supply. In this context, DREWAG was re-established as Dresdner Stadtwerke from various previously independent companies , whose municipal shares are also held by TWD. Two managing directors - Rainer Zieschank and Hans-Jürgen Credé - took on managing director duties in TWD at the same time, Rainer Zieschank became managing director of DREWAG in addition to his duties at DVB and TWD in 2007. The third of the managing directors of DVB from the beginning, Frank Müller-Eberstein, was bid farewell on reaching his retirement. Another reason, however, was that the downsizing at DVB was considerably faster than the company forecasts. Since the company fell below the threshold of 2000 employees from around 2002 , there was no longer a need for a board of directors . The DVB AG has therefore today only two board members.

Traditionally, the Lord Mayor of the City of Dresden was also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of DVB AG from 1990 to 2016 : Herbert Wagner from 1993–2001, Ingolf Roßberg from 2001–2008 , Helma Orosz from 2008–2015 and, since March 2015, Dirk Hilbert . This rule was abandoned on March 14, 2016, since then Mayor Raoul Schmidt-Lamontain has headed the Supervisory Board.

vehicles

The 45 meter long low-floor articulated railcar NGT D12DD is DVB's flagship vehicle

DVB vehicles have been painted in the city ​​colors black and yellow since the late 1980s .

A large part of the vehicle fleet is now low-floor and equipped with modern information technology. This includes the BLIS ( information system for the blind ), the electronic destination displays and passenger information monitors, which are controlled by the IBIS (Integrated On-Board Information System) . Communication between every vehicle in the DVB line network and the operations control center is implemented in a modern form via the computer-aided operations control system (AVL) and interfaces such as the IBIS device via data telegrams (every 15 seconds to the control center) and infrared beacons (installed on routes) . The conversion to the more modern ITCS has been carried out since 2008 .

tram

The regular service is carried out entirely with 166 low-floor articulated multiple units, which have been manufactured by DWA (later Bombardier Transportation ) in Bautzen since 1995 .

High- floor Tatra wagons are also available for training courses and major events .

From 2020, 30 new NGT DX DD trams are to be built by Bombardier in Bautzen and Görlitz and delivered from June 2021. The first tram is to go into regular service from March 2022, planned on line 2 and later on line 3. They are 43.5 meters long and 2.65 meters wide, 35 centimeters wider than before. They can carry 290 passengers. Each lane costs 4.2 million euros.

buses

The modernization of the bus fleet was much faster than that of the tram, as the latter have a longer service life. The last Ikarus bus was taken out of service as early as 2001 . Today DVB uses buses from the manufacturers EvoBus (only Mercedes-Benz ), MAN and Solaris . The double articulated bus from the Belgian manufacturer Van Hool ( AGG 300 ) for bus routes with particularly high demand was tested by the transport companies in 2004, but it did not go into regular use. Furthermore, in 2007, as the end of March and September of 14 March 2013 to Easter 2013, a four-axle articulated type EvoBus MB O 530 GL (Capa) tested for its applicability in Dresden. The four-axle successor Capacity L has been part of the portfolio since 2017 ; this vehicle type is in use on lines with high demand.

A hybrid-drive bus has been tested since March 2007 . The manufacturer Solaris bought the combined drive technology consisting of a diesel engine , two electric motors and storage units in the United States , where hybrid drives have been used for a long time, and used them in the Urbino 18 Hybrid . By observing a normal bus that is then driven by the same driver, experts from the Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems wanted to be able to make comparative statements on the fuel consumption of the hybrid drive. The comparison was necessary to confirm the assumptions about the amortization of the higher acquisition costs (around 380,000 euros more) through the fuel savings. The aim was to reduce diesel consumption from 55 to 44 l / 100 km.

For the expansion of the hybrid bus fleet , funding was applied for in 2009 together with the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe as part of the Electromobility Model Regions project of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development . Since 2011, six Hess BGH-N2C Vossloh-Kiepe hybrid buses, eight Mercedes-Benz Citaro  G BlueTec Hybrid buses and three MAN Lion's City Hybrid vehicles have been on the road in Dresden . In mid-2012, a total of 18 hybrid buses were in use. According to DVB, fuel savings are on average 16 percent and should be increased to 20 percent. A decisive factor is the need to operate an additional heater in winter because the engine does not produce enough waste heat. The purchase price of the vehicles, which is around twice as high, does not yet pay off. Since the environmental and image balance - the vehicles are perceived as environmentally friendly and are noticeably quieter - are clearly positive, funding for 18 more hybrid buses was applied for. In addition, a Solaris Urbino 12 electric bus was purchased in 2015 . In 2016, a Citaro CapaCity L was used on lines 61 and 62 for testing. The DVB then decided to purchase a further ten vehicles of the four-door variant. You have been traveling on the bus routes with the highest demand in the Saxon state capital since January 2017, in particular on route 62.

  • Former Solaris Urbino 18 Hybrid, retired in 2017

  • Vossloh-Kiepe hybrid bus from DVB at Innotrans 2010

  • Articulated bus MAN NG 313 on line 75 in Wallstrasse

  • Solaris Urbino 18 on line 61

  • Mercedes-Benz Citaro G BlueTec-Hybrid in regular service

  • Mercedes-Benz CapaCity L

Depots

Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe has three depots for the tram branch : In addition to the largest depot in Gorbitz , these are the Trachenberge depot in Pieschen (in the northwest) and the Reick depot (in the southeast). The buses are parked in the central bus depot in Gruna and in the Trachenberge depot.

Gorbitz depot

The Gorbitz depot is located to the south-west of the tram network and covers an area of ​​11,000 m². In addition to the storage hall with twelve tracks, the depot also includes the operations workshop with six tracks and the main workshop with an attached ancillary workshop, which comprises five tracks.

Gruna bus depot

Gruna bus depot

Buses are mainly parked in the central bus depot in Gruna . The system accommodates 116 of the approximately 150 buses, which are parked in open and closed parking halls. The Gruna depot replaced the old Blasewitz depot on Heinrich-Schütz-Straße and the parking facility on Albertbrücke. It is located south-east of the city center, roughly in the middle of bus route 61, which requires a large amount of vehicles, which fluctuates due to the increase in frequency.

Reick depot

The Reick depot is located on the south-eastern edge of the network and is mainly designed as a parking facility. It has nine 150-meter-long tracks in a storage hall. 45 of the 30-meter railcars can be parked in Reick. The facility also has a three-track hall for cleaning work and minor repairs in and on the vehicles.

Trachenberge depot

This depot, on the premises of which the Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe is based, is located in the north of Dresden, between Heidestrasse and Trachenberger Strasse. It is designed as a parking facility and also offers parking space for 34 buses. In addition, it contains in the old train hall the tram museum in Dresden , in which Dresden's historic trams collected. They are maintained by the Dresden Tram Museum . The tram museum can be visited a few days a year. Furthermore, the historical motor vehicle association of the Dresden local transport association is housed in the Trachenberge depot. Through this, some historical buses and vehicles are reconditioned and preserved.

Line network

Line network 1885
DVB route network from January 5, 2015
Funicular in Dresden-Loschwitz
Suspension railway in Dresden-Loschwitz

The last major reforms on which the current network is based took place in 2000 on the trams and in 2009 on the bus routes.

tram

There are currently twelve tram lines in operation on a network of around 213 kilometers; the route network is 134.4 kilometers in length, 11.5 kilometers of which are single-track.

bus

Until 1964 the bus routes were marked with letters. Since then, the bus routes have always had two-digit line numbers, from 50 up to 1990, and since then in the range from 60 upwards. With the line reform of May 4, 1969, the two excursion routes Platz der Einheit - Heidemühle and Bühlau - Ullersdorf, which only ran on Saturdays and Sundays, had numbers 50, the trolleybus numbers 60 and the omnibus numbers from 70 to initially 93. The line 99 was initially a special line from what was then Neustadt station to the airport. Even after trolleybus traffic was discontinued in 1975, the route number 61 remained. Additional bus routes filled the gaps in the 1990s.

It was not until the last reform of the line network in 2009 that the busiest lines (10-minute intervals during the day) - based on the student line 61 - were given the numbers 61 to 66. The numbers from 70 upwards are now - with exceptions such as For example, line 75 - awarded to bus routes with a development and / or feeder function.

DVB operate 25 city bus lines (as of summer 2019), which are supplemented by two lines based on the call line taxi principle ( alita ). The bus lines are designed to complement the rail network, mostly run orthogonally or tangentially to the tram routes and mostly only serve the city center on the periphery. The bus routes 62 (until 2009: 82 ) and 75, which cross the city center, are an exception . The transport companies have adjusted the offer of the two lines several times in recent years, so their destinations were crossed over in July 2006, so that both meet close to the center on Prager Straße with transfer options to each other and to a large number of tram lines. Since the extension of the tram line 10 to the Dresden exhibition center on May 29, 2011, the operation of the exhibition center by line 75 has been discontinued and the "bus junction" has been repealed. to the final stop "Pirnaischer Platz", where there was still a link with line 62. As part of the re-routing of the tram route between Wasaplatz and Tiergartenstrasse via Oskarstrasse to connect the S-Bahn station Strehlen, line 75 was routed to Prager Strasse again in July 2019 and merged with line 94 ( Niederwartha -Prager Strasse). This was accompanied by an increase in the number of minutes on weekdays to 10 minutes (old line 75) and 20 minutes (old line 94).

Of the 25 bus routes, only six cross the Elbe, and all of this outside the city center (routes 61, 63 and 84 on the Blauer Wunder , 64 on the Waldschlößchenbrücke , 70 and 80 on the Flügelwegbrücke ).

The bus route 61 (Löbtau - Bühlau - Weißig / Fernsehturm) is one of the busiest bus routes in Germany with up to 400 passengers in five minutes. Especially in the area of ​​the campus of the TU Dresden , even amplifier trips in tight intervals are not always enough to cope with the student rush. The problem with this is that it is not possible to have a faster frequency than every three minutes, as buses in front hold up those behind at the stops. Line 61 connects the most important points of the campus ( Wasaplatz , State and University Library , Technical University Fritz-Foerster-Platz and Nürnberger Platz ), which extends from Strehlen to the southern suburbs . An average of 35,000 passengers travel here every day. Furthermore, the bus line connects all four tram routes in the eastern part of the city via Schillerplatz , Pohlandplatz, the Zwinglistraße and Wasaplatz stops. Although the bus route only runs through the south and east of the city, there is no tram route that the 61 bus route does not cross or touch.

Bus line 66, which connects the campus with the nearby main train station, is used in a similarly strong manner. However, regional bus lines (RVSOE) (333, 352, 360, 366), Verkehrsgesellschaft Meißen (VGM) (424) and the and two almost parallel tram lines (3 and 8) also operate here , which relieve this route.

Several bus routes have been extended so that there are better transfer options:

With these changes, initiated by the Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe, the removal of parallel traffic (with the regional bus routes 328 and 309), without additional kilometers, resulted in an improvement in the city bus cycle in addition to the line extensions .

Line 66 / B, which has been in service since February 2014, is the only line that is operated on its entire route by both the Dresden public transport company and the regional Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains transport. Thus, part of the Freital city traffic is now also realized with buses of the Dresden transport company.

Night traffic

The DVB do not operate a separate night network. Most tram lines as well as important bus lines operate as good night lines throughout the night in whole or in part of their normal route. Tram lines as well as bus lines 62 and (in sections) 75 are generally operated every 15 minutes until around 10:45 p.m., every 30 minutes until around 12:45 a.m., then every 60 minutes, and even every 30 at weekends Minutes. Other bus lines usually only run every 30 minutes until about 1 a.m.

An example of the adaptation to the lower number of passengers at night is tram line 6, which does not follow its daytime route from Kesselsdorfer Straße during night traffic to Wölfnitz (which continues to be served by line 7 at night), but as line 6/12 via Rudolf- Renner-Straße to the end point Leutewitz .

The transport company has been offering the “ Postplatz meeting” for decades . This central stop in the DVB network is set up as a clock node at which all lines arrive at the same time as possible and wait for those transferring from the other lines to depart. This facility is also available at 10 other transfer stations.

At some stops in the outskirts, the transition to regional traffic was made possible.

Passenger information

Electronic notice schedule of the Dresden public transport company at the stop Hp. Strehlen
Dynamic departure display at the Prager Straße stop
Dynamic departure display integrated on the Carolaplatz stop sign ( government district )

Information at stops

Many stops are now equipped with digital passenger information systems to display departure times. At some stations , the departures of the S-Bahn and regional trains are also displayed. Some of the platforms have displays for train and bus departures. For smaller bus stops, DVB developed a smaller, more cost-effective electronic display. The information for the dynamic displays (DFI) is taken from the computer-aided operations control system (RBL) . As a result, the departure time anchored in the timetable is not displayed, but the minimum remaining real time (in minutes) until the vehicle arrives. The display format is the vehicle announcement . As a world first, since October 2007 there has been a facility in Dresden that is directly connected to the local DFI system outside of stops and train stations: In the beer garden of the Schillergarten restaurant there is a display the size of the usual displays at stops. Since spring 2011, electronic posting timetables have been tested at the Hp. Strehlen and Laubegast stops. In winter 2014, the second generation of the timetables was installed as a test at the Hp. Strehlen.

Information in vehicles

The passenger information system inside the car

Low-floor trams and buses are currently being equipped with an information system for the blind for the first time in Germany. The most important function of this system is the announcement of the line and destination to the outside world before boarding. This is achieved by a remote control that triggers a corresponding announcement via the external loudspeakers. Stop announcements in the vehicles can be repeated on request. In addition, the driver can be informed that a passenger is visually impaired and may need help.

Cornelia Grotsch's stops on the trams and Hans-Dieter Leinhos' buses are announced.

Since 2014 there has been real-time information about transfer options at the next stop in some of the newer low-floor generation trams and in all buses equipped with screens. In this way, not only are the lines displayed that can be changed at the next stop, but the departures are also shown in real time.

Individual information

Timetable information is provided free of charge by SMS; there are only the normal SMS costs for the passenger. For this purpose, the DVB have reserved mobile phone numbers in the D1, D2, Eplus and O2 mobile networks. The service also offers the possibility of pre-defining shortcuts so that, in addition to requests of the form Start # Ziel # Zeit , requests from the form freundin (for e.g. hbf # zellescher weg # 15 [start at the main station; destination at Zellescher Weg; departure in 15 Minutes]). As a more convenient alternative to the SMS variant, the information is also available via an interactive WAP portal.

With the help of a widget , it is possible to display real-time information for any number of stops on the line network on computers. This widget is available for various programs. A second widget available enables the display of DVB timetable tables. A program is available free of charge for shopping centers and restaurants to inform their guests about the departure times of public transport at the next stop.

Since the timetable change on November 26, 2011, a website optimized for mobile devices such as smartphones has been launched . In addition to the individual timetable information, this also offers an up-to-date departure monitor for each stop. The stop departure monitor can be called up using a QR code available on the notice board , which is different for each stop. Since November 2016 there is an official app called DVB mobil for Android and IOS, and the mobile website has been revised. In addition, since June 2018 it has been possible to buy tickets directly via the app in cooperation with HandyTicket Deutschland.

Service centers

Former DVB cheese bell service point on Postplatz

Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe maintains a customer center and four service points at central inner-city transport hubs, where employees sell tickets and provide information on local transport and tourism offers. The customer center is located at Postplatz . Service points are located on Albertplatz in Neustadt, on Wiener Platz in the vicinity of the main train station , at the heavily frequented Prager Strasse stop on Dr.-Külz-Ring and in the DVB administration building at the Trachenberge depot .

From 1994 to 2013 a service point was housed in the cheese bell at Postplatz, which served as a training facility for DVB apprentices from 2009 onwards. The service point at Pirnaischer Platz was then used as a training facility. Although the Pirnaische Platz is the most important junction for getting on, off or changing in the network of the Dresden transport company, the importance of its service point declined, so that the latter was closed on March 1, 2019. Since then, trainees have been receiving practical experience at the more important tourist service point at Dr.-Külz-Ring.

Information about line changes and construction work

DVB provides information about line changes and construction work via notices at the stops, timetables that differ in color from the standard timetable (orange instead of yellow frame), via detailed construction site flyers in service centers and vehicles or via the DVB website.

Tariff

Ticket machine on Pirnaischer Platz, May 2018

The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) applies to all means of transport of the regular traffic of the Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe . All DVB lines operate in tariff zone 10 / Dresden, selected ones also into tariff zones 52 / Radebeul (lines 4 and 72), 61 / Freital (lines 66 / B, 86) and 70 / Pirna (lines 65, 86 and 89 ). The tariff zone 10, which covers the entire area of ​​the state capital, is the "main area" of the Dresden public transport company and at the same time the largest and most expensive zone in the VVO area for season tickets (week or longer). Since May 2018, the Dresden public transport company has been installing new, customer-friendly ticket machines in exchange . The two payment methods Google Pay and Apple Pay were introduced in the same year . E-tickets are available via the in-house DVB mobile app .

research

The Dresden Transport occur in existing mainly in Dresden research landscape of Transportation Sciences , in particular the Transport Faculty of the Technical University of Dresden on, as research partners and clients in different projects.

ALLFA ticket

Together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Transport and Infrastructure Systems and partners from the Upper Elbe Transport Association, the transport companies carried out the field experiment of an electronic ticket using the VDV core application until October 2005 . Entering and leaving the vehicle is registered via the RFID chip built into the ticket . There is therefore no need to do anything on the part of the passenger. In practical use, this technology enables billing by the kilometer and thus volume tariffs . There are concerns about such a technology on the part of data protection . These accuse the principle that it documents the mobility behavior of passengers and that the collected data could be misused for commercial or government monitoring purposes.

APP ticket

Customer information on the app ticket

Tickets can also be purchased from Dresden's public transport company using a mobile app .

MOBI

MOBI station at Pirnaischer Platz

With MOBI, the Dresden public transport company created a concept of sustainable and environmentally friendly means of transport on Pirnaischer Platz in September 2018. We offer rental bicycles and cars as well as DREWAG charging stations . Further pilot stations will follow at Mitte, Altpieschen, P + R Prohlis, Fetscherplatz and Wasaplatz. A network of 76 mobility points is to be created in Dresden in the future.

Holdings

DVB is the majority shareholder (74.9%) of VCDB VerkehrsConsult Dresden-Berlin GmbH and Verkehrsgesellschaft Meißen mbH . In addition, DVB has a 49% stake in Taeter Tours GmbH . Via the share management company Dresden GbR , DVB and the Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) hold shares in VDV eTicket Service GmbH & Co. KG , Cologne.

Web links

Commons : Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k All information as of December 31, 2018: dvb.de: Numbers & Data → Brochure 'Numbers and Data 2017' German (PDF; 1 MB)
  2. ↑ All information as of 2015: Advance information on the intended direct award of a public service contract from the City of Dresden for the Dresden tram and Dresden bus lines as a total service to Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG (pdf)
  3. ^ Martin Metz, Matthias Bethge: Dresden in The trams in the GDR . Berlin / Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-87943-625-8 , pp. 186-250.
  4. ^ Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG (Ed.): From coachmen and conductors - The history of the tram to Dresden from 1872 to 2007 . Junius-Verlag, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-88506-018-5 , p. 154
  5. ^ Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG (Ed.): From coachmen and conductors - The history of the tram to Dresden from 1872 to 2007 . Junius-Verlag, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-88506-018-5 , pp. 167/168
  6. ^ Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG (Ed.): From coachmen and conductors - The history of the tram to Dresden from 1872 to 2007 . Junius-Verlag, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-88506-018-5 , p. 180
  7. ↑ Hans-Joachim Hentschel u. a .: Four decades of socialist development of the VEB Verkehrsbetriebe of the City of Dresden . Brochure published on the 40th anniversary of the GDR, VEB Verkehrsbetriebe Dresden, Dresden 1989, p. 24
  8. ↑ Hans-Joachim Hentschel u. a .: Four decades of socialist development of the VEB Verkehrsbetriebe of the City of Dresden . Brochure published on the 40th anniversary of the GDR, VEB Verkehrsbetriebe Dresden, Dresden 1989, p. 18
  9. ↑ Hans-Joachim Hentschel u. a .: Four decades of socialist development of the VEB Verkehrsbetriebe of the City of Dresden . Brochure published on the 40th anniversary of the GDR, VEB Verkehrsbetriebe Dresden, Dresden 1989, p. 25
  10. ↑ a b Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG (ed.): From coachmen and conductors - The history of the tram to Dresden from 1872 to 2007 . Junius-Verlag, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-88506-018-5 , p. 279
  11. ↑ Annual Report 2016 , p. 13; accessed on November 10, 2017
  12. ↑ Line deployment analysis of hybrid buses. Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems IVI, accessed on May 26, 2017 .
  13. ↑ DVB-Info , Issue 3/2008.
  14. ↑ 26 hybrid buses for Leipzig and Dresden , Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe, September 22, 2009, accessed on May 26, 2017
  15. ↑ Model Regions Electromobility ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development.
  16. ↑ a b Environmentally friendly bus fleet. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG, accessed on May 26, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Tony Keil: Still too expensive and not economical enough . In: Dresdner WochenKurier from August 15, 2012
  18. ↑ Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG: Das Busnetz 2010. ( Memento from July 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.8 MB) Status: August 2009.
  19. ↑ DVB marketed this connection as “Bus Cross 75/82”, see: “Bus Cross 75/82” , in: DVB-Einsteiger 2/2006
  20. ↑ The new line 75.Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe, June 24, 2019, accessed on July 24, 2019 .
  21. ↑ DVB connection guarantee - guaranteed connections and transfer points , document on night traffic, valid since November 26, 2011; Retrieved July 8, 2016
  22. ↑ Real-time displays now also in buses. Sächsische Zeitung , September 20, 2014, accessed on February 6, 2015 .
  23. ↑ dvb.de: Mobile information
  24. ↑ Download the DVB widgets
  25. ↑ dvb.de: large-screen departure monitor
  26. ↑ dvb.de: Mobile website of the DVB
  27. ↑ Service locations. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe, accessed on September 10, 2019 .
  28. ↑ DVB service point Pirnaischer Platz is closed. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe, March 7, 2019, accessed on September 10, 2019 .
  29. ↑ dvb.de: line changes
    dvb.de: building projects: general information
  30. ↑ DVB customers can pay with Google Pay and Apple Pay. In: radiodresden.de . December 19, 2018, accessed December 19, 2018 .
  31. ↑ ALLFA ticket. Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems IVI, accessed on May 26, 2017 .
  32. ↑ MOBI ─ a DVB service
  33. ↑ VCDB GmbH website , accessed on May 26, 2017
  34. ^ Meißen transport company. Retrieved September 15, 2018 (German).