Regional transport company Lower Saxony

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Logo of the LNVG

The Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft Niedersachsen mbH (LNVG) is a responsible authority for local rail transport in Lower Saxony, founded in 1996. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the State of Lower Saxony and is based in Hanover .

Tasks of the LNVG

After the rail reform in 1996, responsibility for local public transport was placed in the hands of the respective federal states as part of regionalization . As a result, LNVG was founded in Lower Saxony as a state-wide ordering organization. The company, which is 100 percent owned by the state of Lower Saxony, is responsible for ordering, planning and coordinating local transport services in most of the state. The area around the state capital, for which the Hanover region is responsible, and the eastern part of Lower Saxony, for which the Braunschweig metropolitan area was founded, are not in the planning area of ​​the LNVG .

The LNVG also has the ability to stretch or lines tender since 1996 of transport throughout Europe, so by competition to determine the most economically advantageous operators, who then awarded the contract to operate the corresponding benefits. Since 1996, the following routes and networks have been advertised or freely awarded:

The LNVG is also responsible for the coordination and approval of subsidies for investments and for line approval in road-bound public transport . In addition, funding for local public transport is coordinated and approved. The financial aid is granted for projects in local rail transport, in road-bound public transport and for non-federal railways.

State-owned vehicle pool

LNVG pool railcars , leased to NordWestBahn , in Esens station
Double-deck car , on the way for the metronom railway company

A special feature of the LNVG is the state-owned vehicle pool . For some tenders for local rail transport services in Lower Saxony, the vehicles are procured by the LNVG and specified for use before the award is made. The LNVG acts as the lessor for the vehicles.

The lead time for the start of operation of a regional rail network can be shortened because the vehicles are ordered before the publication of the tender . The waiting time for vehicle orders is thus saved and the time from the allocation to the start of operations is reduced to around one year.

This measure should also offer private railway companies that are not yet represented or only to a very limited extent in the market a starting point that is as fair as possible in order to make it easier for them to enter the market.

In the case of several tenders running at the same time, LNVG was also able to lower the purchase price through bulk orders, since the same vehicles were always procured. The vehicle pool currently includes the following vehicles:

model series Vehicle type number Rented to image
648 Lint 41 86 NWB, erixx, evb
623 Lint 41 / H 6th NWB
622 Lint 54 28 erixx
146.1 TRAXX

(P160 AC1)

10 metronome
146.2 TRAXX 2

(P160 AC2)

18th metronome
147 TRAXX 3

(P160 AC3)

metronome
246 TRAXX

(P160 DE)

8th Verkehrsgesellschaft Start Unterelbe mbH

There are also 220 double-decker cars for metronom (38 of which from December 2018 for Verkehrsgesellschaft Start Unterelbe ). All vehicles are painted in the brand colors blue, yellow and white, which are mandatory.

In addition to the vehicle pool, the LNVG also supports the railway companies in vehicle procurement, for example the forty electric multiple units of the 424 series for the Hanover S-Bahn were subsidized in whole or in part.

A complaint against the vehicle pool that DB Regio had filed in June 2004 was rejected by the Higher Regional Court in Celle in a judgment dated September 2, 2004.

In November 2017, LNVG signed the contracts for the procurement and maintenance of 14 iLINT railcars , which are manufactured by Alstom in Salzgitter and powered by fuel cells. These should first be used at the evb .

Modernization program for train stations

As part of the “Lower Saxony is on the move” program, which aims to make local rail passenger transport more attractive, work began in 2003 to modernize the stations and stops in Lower Saxony in cooperation with Deutsche Bahn . Initially, 156 small and medium-sized stations were converted in an immediate program by 2004, for which a total of 13 million euros were invested. In July 2004 the large station program started, for which around 85 million euros were to be invested. The content of this new program is the extensive modernization of 32 larger train stations such as Bad Pyrmont , Goslar , Bad Bevensen and Uelzen . The measures include raising the platforms, barrier-free access such as ramps or lifts, and renovating or building new platform roofs and access tunnels.

A further 37 stations are currently being expanded as part of the “Lower Saxony is on the train II” program. From 2016 until probably 2026, “Lower Saxony is on the move III” will follow.

State tariff Lower Saxony

Since June 9, 2013, there has been a cross-transport association rail tariff for Lower Saxony for the entire state of Lower Saxony.

Demand development

The passenger demand in Lower Saxony's regional rail transport has increased significantly since the regionalization. The number of passenger kilometers increased from 2.4 billion in 2000 to 4.75 billion in 2013, which almost doubles. Between 2008 and 2013 the number increased by 32%. The national average, however, was only 10%.

literature

  • Jürgen Hörstel: Local traffic in Lower Saxony - 10 years of regionalization between Ems and Harz , railway image archive (Volume 24), EK-Verlag GmbH, Freiburg, 2006. ISBN 3-88255-363-4
  • Achim Uhlenhut: The regional locomotive rental , regional transport (issue 2/2006)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Regio-S-Bahn Bremen / Lower Saxony: NordWestBahn wins tender ( Memento from March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), press release of the Lower Saxony regional transport company, March 7, 2008
  2. ↑ Tender for OWL diesel network started. (No longer available online.) Zweckverband Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe , 2010, archived from the original on August 10, 2012 ; Retrieved December 15, 2010 .
  3. ^ DB Regio: Verkehrsgesellschaft Start Unterelbe is responsible for the Lower Elbe route . In: DVV Media Group GmbH (Ed.): Eurailpress . March 7, 2018 ( online [accessed March 27, 2018]).
  4. ↑ DVV Media Group GmbH: Lower Saxony: DB Regio Nord is to be awarded the contract for the Lower Elbe network . In: Eurailpress . ( Online [accessed September 2, 2017]).
  5. ↑ a b Award procedure, list. LNVG, accessed April 3, 2020 .
  6. ↑ [DE] The real thing: Meet the metronome TRAXX P160 AC3. In: Railcolor News. February 14, 2020, accessed February 16, 2020 (UK English).
  7. ↑ Press release of the Lower Saxony regional transport company: DB Regio prevails against metronom ( memento from March 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), October 4, 2016, accessed on October 20, 2016.
  8. ↑ Notification of the Higher Regional Court confirms the LNVG's vehicle pool . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 11/2004, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 484.
  9. ^ News from September 6, 2004: OLG Celle confirms vehicle pool of the LNVG .
  10. ↑ DVV Media Group GmbH: Lower Saxony: Contracts for 14 iLint signed . In: Eurailpress . ( Online [accessed February 26, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Elevated platforms, barrier-free access and platform equipment ( Memento from July 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Transport demand in local rail transport in Lower Saxony ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), LNVG
  13. ↑ Train travel in Lower Saxony is becoming increasingly popular. (PDF; 42.6 kB) LNVG, October 7, 2014, archived from the original on October 16, 2014 ; accessed on October 11, 2014 .