Eastern Bavaria regional bus

RBO Regionalbus Ostbayern GmbH
Basic information
Company headquarters	regensburg
Web presence	Web presence
Reference year	2017
owner	DB Regio AG
Supervisory board	Klaus Müller (Chairman)
Managing directors	Arndt von Hollen, Jörg Konrad, Stefan Kühn, Petra Küster, Arne Rath
Transport network	RVV , VGRI , VLC , VLP , etc. a.
Employee	360
sales	EUR 67 million
Lines
bus	332
number of vehicles
Omnibuses	991 (175 own, 816 rented)
statistics
Passengers	37.4 million
Mileage	32,821 million
Catchment area	25,000 km²
Length of line network
Bus routes	11,350 km
Operating facilities
Depots	5 ( Hof , Weiden idOPf. , Regensburg , Viechtach , Passau )
Other operating facilities	12 branch offices (customer offices)

Current logo

Second logo

First logo

Logo of the former Czech subsidiary RDS

The regional bus East Bavaria GmbH (DB Ostbayernbus) is a bus company in Eastern Bavaria with headquarters in Regensburg .

history

• DB Ostbayernbus was created on October 1, 1989 from a merger of the rail bus and post bus lines in the Bavarian administrative districts of Lower Bavaria , Upper Palatinate and the eastern part of Upper Franconia as well as in the district of Mühldorf in Upper Bavaria .

Postbus on the Grafenau - Waldhäuser line, today a DB Ostbayernbus line

• In 1996, DB Ostbayernbus started the first natural gas-powered intercity bus system in Germany with the hiking buses known as " Igelbus ".

Igelbus from DB Ostbayernbus with a bicycle trailer

• To date, a total of nine transport communities have been set up in the area served by DB Ostbayernbus: Verkehrsgemeinschaft Landkreis Kelheim (1996), Verkehrsgemeinschaft Rottal-Inn and Verkehrsgemeinschaft Amberg-Sulzbach (both 1997), local transport community Weiden-Neustadt an der Waldnaab (1999), Verkehrsgemeinschaft Landkreis Cham and Verkehrsgemeinschaft Landkreis Passau (both 2000), Verkehrsgemeinschaft Landkreis Deggendorf and Verkehrsgemeinschaft Straubinger Land (both 2002) and in 2011 the Upper Palatinate North tariff .

• DB Ostbayernbus had the following subsidiaries: RBP Regionalbusverkehr Passau Land GmbH (participation; from 1997), Šumava Bus sro (from 2004; renamed RDS bus in 2008 ) and Regental Kraftverkehrs GmbH (from 2004). All three companies mentioned no longer exist today.

DB Ostbayernbus at the bus station in Grafenau - still in the former RBO cloud design (2008)

• Since 2010 DB Ostbayernbus has had a computer-aided operations control system from init .

DB Ostbayernbus in Regensburg at the bus station (2009)

• On October 25, 2017, Germany's first autonomously driving regular service started in the DB Ostbayernbus traffic area. An autonomous minibus in Bad Birnbach connects the thermal baths, and later the train station, with the market square (line 7015).

Easymile / Ligier EZ10 in Bad Birnbach , line 7015

Autonomous bus at the atrium (April 12, 2018)

Autonomous bus on its way

Specially marked bus stop in Bad Birnbach

Timetable notice for line 7015 (autonomous bus)

structure

• Headquarters in Ingolstadt
• North branch, headquarters in Weiden idOpf.
  • Branch office yard
  • Branch office Amberg
  • Branch office Cham
• Central branch, registered office in Regensburg
  • Branch office rain
  • Deggendorf branch
  • Straubing branch
• South branch, seat in Passau
  • Landshut branch
  • Mühldorf branch
  • Pfarrkirchen branch

Contractor company Weber on behalf of DB Ostbayernbus on line 7548 (Mühldorf branch)

Others

DB Ostbayernbus is a wholly owned subsidiary of DB Regio AG .

Following the corporate identity of DB Regio for regional buses, almost all buses are painted traffic red and bear the "DB" logo and the Ostbayernbus brand name .

DB Ostbayernbus in old RBO design in Bayerisch Eisenstein (2009)

DB Ostbayernbus in traffic red design in Passau

In various areas, the buses from DB Ostbayernbus are also designed with a local design, e.g. B. in the Tirschenreuth city ​​bus .

City bus Tirschenreuth from DB Ostbayernbus (2015)

Web links

Commons : RBO Regionalbus Ostbayern GmbH  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of DB Ostbayernbus
• List of all buses from DB Ostbayernbus with depot allocation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Autonomous bus
2. ^ Deutsche Bahn (Ed.): The DB buses show their colors . Press release from June 24, 2008.