Movia

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Trafikselskabet Movia
Movia logo
Basic information
Company headquarters DK-2500 København- Valby
Web presence Website moviatrafik.dk
owner Regions and municipalities
Managing directors Dorthe Nøhr Pedersen, director
Transport network Zealand region
sales 1.48 million DKK (2011)dep1
Bus transfer points downtown Copenhagen
Arriva Scania OmniLink on bus route 145.
Stop sign for Hans Knudsen's Plads .

Trafikselskabet Movia is a company for public transport (LPT) in eastern Denmark . Since January 1, 2007, it has been operating all bus services in the Hovedstaden region (excluding Bornholm ), the Sjælland region and an additional nine local railways. Movia was created through a merger of the tobacco industry , Hovedstadens Udviklingsråd , Vestsjællands Trafikselskab and Storstrøms Trafikselskab .

The transport company is jointly owned by Region Hovedstaden, Region Sjælland and the 45 municipalities in the tariff area. The largest participating municipality is Copenhagen . Movia employs around 300 people, and another 4,500 bus drivers work for local cooperation partners.

Movia operates 570 bus routes with 1,350 buses. 600,000 to 700,000 travelers are transported by bus every week, around 470,000 of them in Hovedstadsområdet alone .

The company name Movia is made up of the Latin words movere (to move) and via (way, journey).

Lines

Regular lines

Line numbers without a letter (e.g. line 10) are general lines. They can be found everywhere in the city and the surrounding area and run according to a fixed timetable.

A-bus

The A buses (e.g. 1A or 3A) follow the main traffic routes. They do not have a fixed timetable, but operate according to a variable frequency that is adapted to the location and time. The shortest cycle is 3 minutes. The distinctive color of the A buses is red. The front door area and the left side of the rear of the Movia vehicles are correspondingly colored. The facilitation of being able to distinguish between lines individually by means of visual identification from a greater distance has already been used on the trams of Copenhagen. Here each line table had its own individual color pattern.

S-bus

S-buses run on the routes of the express bus network (route numbers e.g. 150S or 200S). They don't stop at all stations like A buses. Their distinctive color is blue.

E-bus

The fastest lines are operated by express buses (Ekspresbus). In contrast to S-buses, they usually only run on weekdays and at peak times. The line numbers (e.g. 30E or 40E) are followed by an E and are marked in green. Until 1989 they were called Hurtigbusse (brisk = fast), recognizable by an H after the route number.

N-bus

Night traffic in Copenhagen is served by the N buses.

Havnebus

Havnebus (passenger ferry)

Waterbus routes operate on the inland waterways of the capital's port region between Øresund and Køge Bugt . There are currently three connections in operation, the vehicles of which, like the buses on land, are painted in the uniform ocher-yellow Movia color scheme.

Service bus

For seniors and people with handicaps operate service buses . These are minibuses that are used on routes with an incline, for example, to ensure the mobility of the disabled. Their line numbers start with 84 ...

Telebus

Telebuses are similar to shared taxis and are ordered by telephone. They are with 82 and a third digit, e.g. B. 820 or 828.

vehicles

Until the mid-1990s, most of the buses came from companies manufacturing in Denmark. Well-known local companies were Aabenraa Karrosseri A / S and Dansk Automobil Byggeri A / S (DAB) in Aabenraa and Silkeborg . Articulated buses were also manufactured here under the name Leyland-DAB , which arose from a collaboration with the British Leyland Motors Limited .

The current bus manufacturers are predominantly Volvo and Scania , to which parts of the Danish production facilities were also sold at the end of the 1990s. The water buses come from different shipyards . Currently these are Westers Mekaniska AB in Uddevalla and Lübeck BalTec Werft GmbH .

Local railways

Movia is the main shareholder of the railway operator Lokaltog A / S, which operates nine local transport routes:

Region H.

Region S

History of Copenhagen's public transport

  • The last horse and the first motorized omnibus in Copenhagen at Rådhuspladsen , 1913.

  • Bus with conductor Copenhagen KS line 19, 1937.

  • Copenhagen bus route 33H (urtig) with HT logo (Hovedstadsområdets Trafikselskab).

Horse omnibus

By 1840 there were already several horse-drawn bus routes . One led from Amierterorv in the city center via Vesterbrogade to Frederiksberg Runddel. But in 1863 the first tram, which connected Frederiksberg to Copenhagen, opened, initiating a development that lasted until the 1970s, which only assigned bus connections to bus connections in the metropolitan area. The commissioning of the first bus with an engine in 1913 did nothing to change that. The carriage by horse-drawn buses was discontinued on July 27, 1917. Their traction then took place exclusively with a motor.

Københavns Sporveje

Whether there was competition or the extent to which this led to massive displacement cannot be proven. It is noticeable, however, that many private transport companies in Copenhagen and its suburbs at that time tried their hand at the business field of passenger transport , but their existence on average never lasted longer than 10 years. From 1911 only one company in the city, the municipal tram company Københavns Sporveje (KS), operated almost all of the local public transport in the capital region. With 14 tram lines plus some of their own bus connections, passenger transport was mainly carried out by tram this year. It was only with the gradual shutdown of the tram from 1965 to 1972 that the proportion of bus traffic in traffic increased significantly. Københavns Sporveje replaced many tram lines with bus connections until 1972, the last tram year , often without changing the route number, so that the routing of lines 2, 3, 5, 11 and 18 still largely corresponds to that of the former tram up to the present day .

In 1974, KS-Busse and their connections were taken over by a new transport company, Hovedstadsområdets Trafikselskab (HT) , which was founded as a result of the merger of several municipal companies in the capital region . The current operating company Trafikselskabet Movia was created in 2007 through an even larger merger of several transport companies from the entire metropolitan region and neighboring regions on Zealand .

See also

Web links

Commons : Movia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steffen Linvald: Københavns hvornår skete det. see section 1917, July 27. In: kobenhavnshistorie.dk/. Stadsarkiv København, accessed on May 3, 2019 (Danish).
  2. ↑ Publications of the operating company Trafikselskabet Movia , accessed July 30, 2013 (Danish)