Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe

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Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB) GmbH
Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe LGelb HG high cmyk.svg
Basic information
Company headquarters Leipzig
Web presence www.L.de/verkehrsbetriebe
Reference year 2018
owner 100% Leipziger Versorgungs- und Verkehrsgesellschaft ( LVV ) mbH
Transport network MDV
Employee 2469 LVB group of companies
Lines
Gauge 1458 mm
tram 13 (day network)
2 (school lines)
2 (night network)
bus 38 (day network)
9 (night network)
number of vehicles
Tram cars 289 railcars
48 sidecars
Omnibuses 165 buses
statistics
Passengers 156.4 million (2018)
Mileage 24.3 million km per year
Stops 1643 stops (of which 804 are barrier-free)
Residents in the
catchment area
0.7 million
Operating facilities
Depots 6th
Track length 318.7 km
Switches 726

The Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB) are a municipal company of the city of Leipzig and operate local public transport ( trams / light rail and bus services) in the city and the surrounding area. The LVB route network is integrated into the Central German Transport Association (MDV) . Created on January 1, 1917 from the merger of the Great Leipzig Tram and the Leipzig Electric Tram , the company operated under the name Great Leipzig Tram until July 29, 1938 .

The LVB operate 13 tram lines a day. Since April 1, 2018, a tram has also been running at night, the N17 night line, and the N10 at weekends. The route network has a route length of 143.5 km.

The LVB currently operates 46 bus routes in the city and the surrounding area. Nine (ten on weekends) lines operate at night. These night lines run in the ring traffic, the junction is at the main station.

A passenger advisory board has existed since 1997. The members are not employed by the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe and are re-elected every four years. The last election was in 2017.

history

1872-1945

On May 18, 1872, the Leipzig Horse Railroad (LPE) began operating. The Reudnitz tram station was the first depot and at the same time the headquarters of the company's management. 25 years after its opening, the LPE owned 1,013 horses, 172 wagons and five depots. The last horse-drawn tram ran on April 16, 1897. While the electrification work was still going on, the Great Leipzig Tram (GLSt) started operating on May 17, 1896, the Leipzig Electric Tram (LESt) on May 20 of the same year . Around 1900 the Leipziger Außenbahn AG (LAAG) was founded, which tried to establish a connection to Schkeuditz (then part of Prussia). A special permit from the District President of Merseburg was necessary for this. Due to the strong demand, this line was then expanded to two tracks.

In 1913 the Leipziger Allgemeine Kraftomnibus AG (LAKAG) was founded to compete with the trams. At the beginning of the First World War , bus operations had to be given up again as the buses were withdrawn for use in the war. During the First World War, the factories could no longer be run profitably due to the poverty of the population, so that the Great Leipzig Tram and the Leipzig Electric Tram merged in 1916 and were taken over by the city on November 1, 1918. From 1925 buses were used again. A trolleybus system was set up in Leipzig from 1938, the trolleybuses were in service until 1975 - after the lines were reduced in the 1960s. In the same year (1938) the name of the company was changed to Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe .

After the Second World War , the vehicle fleet was gradually renewed, new vehicles from 1951 with wagons from VEB Lokomotiv- und Waggonbau Werdau ( LOWA wagons ) or from the beginning of the 1960s with four-axle Gotha articulated railcars . The first Tatra T4D from Czechoslovakia were used in 1969, and by the end of the 1980s they took over almost all of the line operations for the tram.

After the turning point in 1990

In-house production: Leoliner prototype train, type 37

The Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe has existed as a GmbH since 1993. In order to counteract the great loss of passengers, the LVB started using handicapped-friendly low-floor buses from 1992 and three-part low-floor articulated trams from 1995 . In 1994, LVB's performance data were 31.5 million car kilometers (2,518.8 million square kilometers) for trams and 6.8 million car kilometers (491.3 million square kilometers) for buses. In 1994, the number of trams carried was 98 million and the omnibus 20 million passengers, plus 0.5 million in special services. At that time there were still 2,723 employees. On January 1, 1995 the track length was 328.2 km, of which 11.6 km on independent track and 66.7 km on special track, 29.7 km belonged to depots and workshops. 8.4 km of the routes were single-track. There were 553 railcars and 192 sidecars in stock, as well as 92 solo buses (including 45 MAN NL 202 ) and 47 articulated buses (including 10 Mercedes-Benz O 405 GN low-floor buses and 37 Ikarus 280 high- floor buses ).

In 1998, night traffic was switched to bus routes , the so-called nightliners . In 2001 there was a comprehensive network line reform. Since 2018 there has also been night traffic with tram trains again.

structure

The company is organized as a holding company and consists of the following companies:

  • The LeoBus GmbH (emerged on 1 November 2005 of regional transport Leipzig (RVL); regional transport diving (RVT). Dt Nahverkehrsgesellschaft (DNVG) and the bus division of LSVB) takes over the bus in Leipzig and the surrounding area of Leipzig and also offers other services on. Until July 31, 2008 also the local transport company Riesa mbH (PNV)
  • The Leipziger Stadtverkehrsbetriebe (LSVB) GmbH operate the tram traffic within the Leipzig network, while the LVB act as the customer
  • The LTB Leipziger transport and logistics companies GmbH is responsible for fleet management and maintenance services to vehicles.
  • The IFTEC , which emerged from the LFB and the LIB, offers tailor-made maintenance solutions for rails and vehicles.
    ( Leipziger Fahrzeugservice-Betriebe GmbH (LFB) : industrial services and technical system solutions in the field of transport)
    ( LIB Leipziger Infrastruktur Betriebe GmbH & Co.KG : maintenance and construction of rail and road traffic systems)
  • The Leipziger Service Betriebe (LSB) GmbH manage parking areas and offer services such as cleaning and security in the transport sector.
  • The LAB Leipziger training enterprises GmbH are active in the field of industrial and commercial vocational and training in transport. In addition, she is responsible for driving school training for trams, buses and cars in the LVB Group.

This division was in terms of future procurement of public transport performed and scarce public funds, the subsidiary may apply for jobs. The remaining 49% stake in the former subsidiary HeiterBlick GmbH was sold to Kirow on December 23, 2010, thus completing the privatization of this company.

Operating areas

tram

Modernized Tatra large train , sidecar with low-floor floor between the bogies (LVB types 33c, 33d and 65d)

The LVB operate 13 tram lines a day. Since April 1, 2018, the N17 night line has been in existence again after twenty years, in addition to the N10 line, which was introduced at the end of 2013 but only runs on weekends, after twenty years with daily non-stop tram service.

The route network has a route length of 150.3 km (7.8 km of which is single-track) and 516 tram stops (both directions).

omnibus

In the city of Leipzig and the surrounding area, LVB currently operates 61 bus lines. In the night traffic (weekends ten) run nine lines. These night lines run in the ring traffic, the junction is at the main station.

Passenger numbers

After the number of passengers fell rapidly after reunification and reached their lowest point in 1998 with less than 80 million passengers, the number of passengers has risen continuously since the network reform in 2001. Only in 2014 was there a significant decrease due to the start of operations of the S-Bahn in Central Germany and the loss of transport services in the Leipzig district . The increase in passenger numbers has recently lagged significantly behind the growing population.

Passenger development 2001 to 2017 (in millions)

Historic tram cars

In Leipzig, almost every type of car has been preserved since the beginning of electrical operation. Two railcars from the early days of electrical operation were kept by far-sighted employees in 1924 for the preservation of the museum. A voluntary association takes care of the maintenance of the wagons, their presentation in the tram museum and also the reconstruction of sold and recovered wagons. The Tram Museum has been housed in the Wittenberger Strasse tram station since May 2019.

Examples:

Railcar type 13 (GLSt)
Technical specifications
Number series 416-505
Installation 5th November 1906
Manufacturer Central workshops of the GLSt, Leipzig
Electrical equipment AEG / LEW
Travel switch 2 × type K26w
engine 2 × BM 20/600, each 16 kW
Brakes Air brake, hand brake
Railcar type 27 (LESt)
Technical data of railcar number 981
Construction year 1913/1929
Seats 18 (transverse seats)
Standing room 20th
Weight 11.9 t
length 8.86 m
Wheelbase 2 m
Brakes Compressed air brake (motor compressor), drag brake, hand brake
Travel switch Slip ring travel switch AEG-FB3sp41
Engines 2 × AEG-USL253a each 34 kW
Railcar type 29
Technical specifications
Number series 1001-1056
Installation June 18, 1930
Manufacturer Linke-Hofmann-Busch AG, Bautzen
Electrical equipment Sachsenwerk, Dresden-Niedersedlitz
Travel switch 2 × type SNF
Engines 4 × GBv 237, each 45 kW
Brakes Air brakes , e-brakes, hand brakes, rail brakes
Type 30 railcar
Technical specifications
Number series 1601-1615
Installation October 13, 1951

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. leipzig.de
  2. Passenger Advisory Board of the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe. Retrieved March 10, 2019 .
  3. ^ The history of the LVB ( Memento of October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ LVB: Facts and Figures 1995
  5. LVZ online on December 23, 2010: privatization ended ( memento of December 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  6. lizzy-online.de The Leipziger Internet newspaper with reference to LVB managing director  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.lizzy-online.de
  7. 170 million passengers: How the LVB want to achieve their goal of "25 percent". (No longer available online.) In: l-iz.de. July 4, 2012, archived from the original on July 9, 2012 ; Retrieved July 4, 2012 .
  8. LVB balance sheet 2008: Half a million returned - there is no money for investments. (No longer available online.) In: l-iz.de. June 19, 2009, archived from the original on June 22, 2009 ; Retrieved June 28, 2009 .
  9. ^ [Leipziger Volkszeitung, April 28, 2010, p. 17.]
  10. Business results of the LVV - The LVB draw positive balance for the 2011 financial year. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 11, 2015 ; accessed on March 7, 2017 .
  11. Numbers and facts 2013 ( Memento of November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  12. City tunnel and nice weather: LVB is losing several million passengers. Retrieved March 7, 2017 .
  13. ^ Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB) GmbH: Annual financial statements 2014. (PDF) Retrieved on March 7, 2017 .
  14. Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB) GmbH: Annual financial statements 2015. (PDF) Retrieved on March 7, 2017 .
  15. Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB) GmbH: Annual financial statements 2017. (PDF) Retrieved on August 13, 2018 .