Regional transport start Germany

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Regional transport Start Deutschland GmbH
Start RE Hamburg Hbf 1902141606.jpg
Basic information
Company headquarters Frankfurt am Main
Web presence www.startgmbh.com
owner 100% DB Regio AG
legal form GmbH
founding 2016
Managing directors Dirk Bartels, Alexander Falkenmeier

The regional transport Start Germany GmbH is a German railway company (PSC). The safety certificate and approval as an EVU was issued by the Federal Railway Authority in November 2017 . It was founded in 2016 as a wholly owned subsidiary of DB Regio AG in Munich , still under the name Blitz B16-216 GmbH , and is intended to apply like a start-up as an operator of local transport services and operate them if the application is successful.

According to its own statements, the company wants to act “lean and dynamic” and thus do justice to the increasing cost and performance pressure in German local rail passenger transport . This arose, among other things, from the liberalization of local transport in Germany and the associated tenders in the respective federal states . Under this pressure, the parent company DB Regio had lost some services, some of which were important, in the previous years.

Participation in tenders and successes

The following subsidiaries were founded:

  • Transport company Start Emscher-Münsterland mbH (September 16, 2016)
  • Verkehrsgesellschaft Start Niedersachsen mbH (September 19, 2016)
  • Verkehrsgesellschaft Start Augsburg mbH (September 20, 2016)
  • Verkehrsgesellschaft Start NRW mbH (September 20, 2016)
  • Verkehrsgesellschaft Start Ostsachsen mbH, formerly Verkehrsgesellschaft Start Ruhr-Sieg mbH (September 20, 2016)
  • Verkehrsgesellschaft Start Unterelbe mbH (December 28, 2016)

Lower Elbe network

Regionalverkehr Start Deutschland GmbH has already achieved success: It took over operations on the Hamburg Hbf – Cuxhaven (RE 5) route from metronom Eisenbahngesellschaft from December 2018 to December 2027 with the subsidiary Start Unterelbe , based in Cuxhaven . Eight diesel locomotives and 38 double-decker cars from the state-owned vehicle pool of LNVG , which are already in use on the route, are rented for operation. A takeover offer was also made to the previous metronom employees.

A car starting in Cadenberge

Eastern Axis Network II

On April 26, 2018, the ZVON , the ZVOE as well as the Liberecký kraj and the Ústecký kraj announced that from December 2019 the transport company Start Ostsachsen mbH would be providing transport services on the local rail transport lines Dresden – Görlitz, Dresden – Zittau – Liberec and Liberec – Zittau –Seifhennersdorf for 12 years.

The previous operator, Die Länderbahn , which operates the lines with its trilex brand , lodged an objection against this decision at the beginning of May 2018 with the procurement chamber of the State Office of Saxony. After an oral hearing on September 14, 2018, the public procurement tribunal announced on October 30, 2018 that the award for the route network may not be made at Start because the company, in the chamber's opinion, is not suitable for this contract.

On November 13, 2018, the transport company Start Ostsachsen announced that it had filed a complaint against the judgment of the public procurement tribunal at the higher regional court in Dresden. The company believes it meets the eligibility criteria for this assignment. After an oral hearing on January 31, 2019, the Dresden Higher Regional Court confirmed the award chamber's decision on February 15, 2019. Accordingly, the four transport authorities now have to make a new award decision, but are not allowed to take into account the offer of the transport company Start Ostsachsen .

The contract was awarded to the previous operator Die Länderbahn on April 2, 2019 . This will continue to provide local rail transport between Dresden and Upper Lusatia beyond 2019 .

Managing directors

Dirk Bartels and Alexander Falkenmeier are the managing directors of Regionalverkehr Start Deutschland GmbH. On October 1, 2019, Dirk Bartels will take over the chairmanship of Regionalverkehr Start Deutschland GmbH from Dr. Sven Decher. Bartels runs the company together with Alexander Falkenmeier and is responsible for marketing, sales and finance. He can look back on many years of experience in local rail passenger transport, including with the Transdev Group. Alexander Falkenmeier previously held numerous management positions at DB Regio and other local rail transport companies and is responsible for the areas of personnel and operations.

Web links

Commons : Regionalverkehr Start Deutschland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Regional transport Start Deutschland GmbH - START. Retrieved December 29, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Guido M. Hartmann: DB Regio: When the top dog only weakens . In: THE WORLD . June 8, 2016 ( welt.de [accessed December 29, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Björn Vasel, Wolfgang Stephan: Metronom employees are concerned about their future. In: Cuxhavener Nachrichten. October 6, 2016, accessed March 27, 2018 .
  4. ^ DB Regio: Verkehrsgesellschaft Start Unterelbe is responsible for the Lower Elbe route. In: Eurailpress.de. DVV Media Group GmbH, March 7, 2018, accessed on March 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Local rail transport allocation for East Axis Network II from December 2019
  6. ^ Controversy over railway lines from Dresden to Görlitz and Zittau. Retrieved October 18, 2019 .
  7. ↑ https://www.zvon.de/de/dnl/20181102_st_vergabeverfahren.8908.pdf
  8. ↑ mdr.de: DB subsidiary and Länderbahn wrestle for the Upper Lusatian route network | MDR.DE. MITTELDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK, November 5, 2018, accessed on October 18, 2019 .
  9. ↑ No surcharge to the "Verkehrsgesellschaft Start Ostsachsen"
  10. ^ Next round in the dispute over railway lines from Dresden to Görlitz and Zittau. In: Dresdner Latest News. November 14, 2018, accessed October 18, 2019 .
  11. ↑ November 2018 | Start fights for East Axis Network II - Start. Retrieved October 18, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Prohibition of the award of local rail passenger transport services in the East Axis Network II confirmed | juris The legal portal. Retrieved October 18, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Trilex continues to roll in East Saxony
  14. ↑ Management of START Germany. In: company homepage. Regionalverkehr Start Deutschland GmbH, accessed on October 17, 2019 .