Potsdam transport company

ViP Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam GmbH

Basic information
Company headquarters	Potsdam
Web presence	www.vip-potsdam.de
Reference year	2017
owner	Stadtwerke Potsdam 100%
Managing directors	Monty Balisch
Transport network	VBB
Employee	407
Lines
tram	7th
bus	26th
Other lines	1 (ferry)
number of vehicles
Tram car	53
Omnibuses	55
other vehicles	1 (ferry)
statistics
Passengers	34 million per year
Stops	618 of which tram: 130 (122 stops barrier-free) of which bus: 488
Length of line network
Tram lines	68 km
Bus routes	269 km
Operating facilities
Depots	1

The ViP Potsdam GmbH (ViP → acronym for traffic operation in Potsdam ) operates the substantial part of the public transport (public transport) in Potsdam . The company is a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Potsdam GmbH .

ViP bus at Babelsberg Town Hall

Today, as a partner of the VBB , the transport company operates seven tram and 25 bus routes as well as a ferry connection. With a route network of around 337 kilometers, around 34 million passengers annually use the public transport service, which is considered to be particularly extensive and well-priced.

history

Škoda trolleybus on Karl-Liebknecht-Straße (January 1990).

With the new legal form of the GmbH, the former VEB Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam was renamed Verkehrsbetrieb in Potsdam (ViP) in December 1990 and has been a subsidiary of the Stadtwerke Potsdam since January 1994.

In addition to the Potsdam tram and diesel buses, there was also a trolleybus network, the Potsdam trolleybus, until 1995 . The two lines A and B (from May 1991 lines 690 and 691) operated between Babelsberg and Drewitz . The trolleybus operation was stopped on January 22, 1995.

According to the "principles of a new transport policy" adopted in 1991, the tram network was expanded in the following years.