Local rail transport

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Local rail passenger transport ( SPNV ), also known as local rail transport , is the term used in Germany to describe the transport services provided by rail transport companies in local public transport (ÖPNV).

The term includes the train types Interregio-Express , Regional-Express , Regionalbahn (formerly local train ) and S-Bahn . These trains are also known as local trains .

In Austria and Switzerland there is no exact equivalent to the term local rail transport. At the ÖBB there are u. a. the regional train ; the Swiss train types Regio , RegioExpress and S-Bahn are part of regional traffic there .

Legal basis

Transport authority of the regional rail transport in Germany

Since the regionalization in 1996 no longer the federal government, but which are in Germany country as transport authorities responsible for the organization of regional transport. In their local traffic laws, they have delegated this function either to themselves or to municipal associations . These have come together in the umbrella association of the Federal Working Group for Local Rail Transport (BAG-SPNV). The transport authorities order and finance the local transport services in cooperation with the respective state planning authorities (see also the list of state planning authorities ).

The General Railway Act (AEG) "serves to guarantee the safe operation of the railway and an attractive transport offer on the rail as well as to ensure effective and undistorted competition on the rail in the provision of transport services and the operation of railway infrastructures." According to § 2 Para . 5 of the AEG the “generally accessible transport of people in trains, which are primarily intended to meet the demand for urban, suburban or regional transport. This is in doubt the case when a train does not exceed the entire travel length 50 km or the total travel time is one hour in the majority of transport cases. " Trams and them in accordance with German PBefG equivalent webs such as subways or lifts are indeed railways include but under German law not to the local rail transport

The highest supervisory authority for both railway undertakings (EVU) and railway infrastructure companies (EIU) is either the Federal Railway Authority (EBA) in Bonn or authorities in the individual states.

Market shares in Germany

Railway companies	2012	2014	2016	2018
Train kilometers	653 million	659 million	673 million	689 million
Deutsche Bahn	75%	74%	67%	66.7%
Transdev	4%	6%	7%	6.4%
BeNEX	3%	3%	3%	2.3%
Netinera	3%	4%	5%	4.9%
Hessian state railway	2%	2%	2%	1.8%
Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft	2%	1 %	1 %	1.4%
Keolis	2%	2%	2%	2.4%
Westfalenbahn			2%	1.8%
Erfurt Railway	1 %	1 %	1 %	1.0%
Abellio	1 %	1 %	2%	3.4%
Niederbarnimer Railway			1 %
National Express			1 %
Rurtalbahn	1 %	under other
Others	6%	5%	6%	7.9%

Local rail passenger transport by country

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The responsible planning and licensing authority and the responsible authority (s) are listed for each federal state.

See also : list German railway companies  and list German tariff and traffic groups

Baden-Württemberg

→ Main article : Local rail passenger transport in Baden-Württemberg

The local transport company Baden-Württemberg (NVBW) was founded by the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1996. She advises and supports the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (MVI) in all matters relating to local rail transport. Local public transport is coordinated nationwide with the regional transport companies and associations under the “bwegt” brand. For the S-Bahn Stuttgart is Stuttgart Regional Association of PTAs. In the regions of Heidelberg , Mannheim , Main-Tauber-Kreis , Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis and Rhein-Neckar-Kreis this task is carried out by the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN).

The following are active as EVU:

• DB Regio Baden-Württemberg with the divisions Regional Traffic Württemberg, Regional Traffic South Baden and S-Bahn Stuttgart,
• DB Regio Rhein-Neckar ,
• DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee (RAB),
• Westfrankenbahn (WFB),

and ten more NE railways (as of 2007):

• Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (AVG)
• Bodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn (BOB)
• Hohenzollerische Landesbahn (HzL)
• Upper Rhine Railway Company (OEG)
• SBB GmbH (SBB)
• Südwestdeutsche Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft (SWEG)
• Württemberg Railway Company (WEG)
• Go Ahead Germany GmbH

See also : List of passenger stations in Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

The Bavarian Railway Company (BEG) was founded in 1995 by the Free State of Bavaria . It has been planning and ordering all local rail transport for the State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology (BStMWIVT) since 1996 . The BStMWIVT is also the highest planning authority. The train connections in local traffic are called Bayern-Takt .

See also : Bayerische Eisenbahngesellschaft # tenders in local rail transport , list of local rail passenger transport lines in Bavaria and list of passenger stations in Bavaria

Berlin and Brandenburg

The Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB) is the association of all public transport authorities in Berlin and Brandenburg . It was founded in 1996 and has had a common tariff for all member regions and cities since 1999. In some cases, the tenders are held together with other transport associations. The top state planning is carried out jointly by the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Brandenburg Ministry for Infrastructure and State Planning .

See also : List of railway lines in Brandenburg and Berlin , list of railway stations in the Berlin area and list of passenger railway stations in Brandenburg

Bremen

In the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , the Senator's Authority for the Environment, Building and Transport fulfills the task of local rail transport. It is also the highest state planning authority.

The cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven formed the Bremen / Lower Saxony transport association (VBN) in 1996 together with the Lower Saxony cities of Delmenhorst and Oldenburg and the districts of Ammerland , Diepholz , Oldenburg , Osterholz , Wesermarsch and Verden . Associated members of the ZVBN are 14 municipalities in the districts of Cuxhaven , Rotenburg and Nienburg . In this way, the responsible authority was brought together across the boundaries of individual regional authorities. The cooperation with the Verkehrsverbund Bremen / Niedersachsen (VBN) is contractually regulated.

See also : Local transport in Bremen # Local rail transport , Verkehrsverbund Bremen / Niedersachsen # Local rail transport and regional S-Bahn Bremen / Lower Saxony # Line network

Hamburg

→ Main article : Rail transport in Hamburg

The Hamburg Transport Association (HVV), founded in 1965, was restructured in 1996 to become an association of public transport authorities.

Today the shareholders are the states of Hamburg , Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein as well as the seven (rural) districts bordering Hamburg, Harburg , Lüneburg , Stade , Lauenburg , Segeberg , Stormarn and Pinneberg . The highest state planning authority is the authority for urban development and the environment . There are currently no tenders.

See also : Hamburger Verkehrsverbund # Companies integrated into the HVV , list of AKN train stations and list of Hamburg regional train stations

Hesse

In Hesse , the North Hessian Transport Association (NVV) is the responsible party for local rail transport in the Kassel administrative region . The framework conditions set by the state and the regional authorities of Fulda , Göttingen , Kassel , Hersfeld-Rotenburg , Waldeck-Frankenberg and Werra-Meißner district are implemented by the NVV. For the EVU cf. Nordhessischer Verkehrsverbund # tenders in local rail transport .

For the administrative districts of Gießen and (for the most part) Darmstadt , the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) is responsible for the local rail transport. The RMV was founded in 1995 as the successor to the Frankfurter Verkehrsverbund (FVV). The state of Hesse is a partner in the RMV together with 15 districts and 11 cities. Various RUs were involved in the tenders .

For the circle mountain road is traffic group Rhine Neckar responsible.

The highest planning authority for Hesse is the Ministry of Economics, Transport and State Development .

See also : List of the railway lines in the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund , list of the railway lines in the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar and list of passenger stations in Hessen

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

The responsible authority for the regional rail transport is the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The highest state planning authority is the Ministry of Energy, Transport and State Development . The Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania transport company (VMV) takes on the planning, organization and financing of the local rail transport.

You order the local rail transport services from the following RUs:

• DB Regio Nordost
• Usedomer Bäderbahn (UBB)
• East German Railway (ODEG)
• Mecklenburgische Bäderbahn Molli (MBB) (narrow-gauge railway, 900 mm)
• Railway construction and operating company Pressnitztalbahn (PRESS) (partly narrow-gauge railway 750 mm)

The integral cycle timetable links the nodes ( Rostock , Güstrow , Neustrelitz , Neubrandenburg , Stralsund ) every hour if possible. The only transport association with regional rail integration is the Verkehrsverbund Warnow (VVW), which extends over the Hanseatic city of Rostock and the neighboring district of Rostock .

See also : List of railway lines in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania  and List of passenger stations in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Lower Saxony

The Lower Saxony regional transport company (LNVG) is the regional rail transport authority for the state of Lower Saxony , unless the Hanover region and the Braunschweig region's special purpose association (ZBG) are responsible for their respective areas. The Ministry of Economy, Labor and Transport is the supreme supervisory authority.

Transport associations with integration of local rail transport:

• Greater Hanover traffic (GVH) for the Hanover region
• Verkehrsverbund Region Braunschweig (VRB) for Braunschweig and the surrounding area
• Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV) for the Hamburg area
• Transport association Bremen / Lower Saxony (VBN) for the Bremen area
• Verkehrsverbund Süd-Niedersachsen (VSN) for Göttingen and southern Lower Saxony

See also : List of SPNV lines in Lower Saxony  and List of passenger stations in Lower Saxony

North Rhine-Westphalia

The regional transport authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia:
blue = ZV NVR ,
gray = VRR ,
red = NWL

From January 2008, the local rail transport in North Rhine-Westphalia was reorganized and grouped into three umbrella organizations as the responsible authorities.

The Zweckverband Nahverkehr Rheinland (ZV NVR) is the joint umbrella organization for the Aachener Verkehrsverbund (AVV) and the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS).

The Zweckverband Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe (NWL) takes on the ordering and financing of the local rail transport for:

• Local transport association Paderborn-Höxter (NPH)
• Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund OWL (VVOWL)
• Special Purpose Association for Local Passenger Transport Westphalia South (ZWS)
• Special purpose association SPNV Münsterland (ZVM)
• Local association SPNV Ruhr-Lippe (ZRL)

Since 2008, the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) has also been coordinating the regional rail transport in the Niederrhein local transport association .

See also : List of SPNV lines in North Rhine-Westphalia  and List of passenger stations in North Rhine-Westphalia

Rhineland-Palatinate

In Rhineland-Palatinate , the SPNV is grouped under two authorities, the regional rail passenger transport association Rhineland-Palatinate North (SPNV-Nord) for the regions around Koblenz and Trier on the one hand, and the regional rail passenger transport association Rhineland-Palatinate South (SPNV-Süd) for the Rheinhessen regions and Pfalz .

See also : List of SPNV lines in Rhineland-Palatinate  and List of passenger stations in Rhineland-Palatinate

Saarland

For the Saarland is traffic management company Saar (VGS) is responsible.

See also : List of SPNV lines in Saarland  and list of passenger stations in Saarland

Saxony

The following special purpose associations are responsible for the state of Saxony :

• Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO)
• Association for the local traffic area of ​​Leipzig (ZVNL)
• Association of Central Saxony Transport Association (ZVMS)
• Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund Oberlausitz-Lower Silesia (ZVON)
• Zweckverband ÖPNV Vogtland (ZVV)

See also : List of Railway Lines in Saxony  and List of Railway Stations and Stops in Saxony

Saxony-Anhalt

For the State of Saxony-Anhalt is Nahverkehrsservice Saxony-Anhalt (NASA) is responsible.

See also : List of Railway Lines in Saxony-Anhalt  and List of Passenger Stations in Saxony-Anhalt

Schleswig-Holstein

The Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Science, Economics and Transport is responsible, among other things, for traffic law and traffic safety on the rails. The public and sovereign tasks in rail transport are performed by the State Office for Road Construction and Transport Schleswig-Holstein (LBV-SH). The local railway department was created on October 1, 2001.

The tasks of the local transport association Schleswig-Holstein NAH.SH include the planning, ordering and quality assurance of the regional rail transport offer, as well as the coordination with the other public transport.

See also : List of Railway Lines in Schleswig-Holstein  and List of Passenger Stations in Schleswig-Holstein

Thuringia

For the country Thuringia is transport service company Thuringia (NVS) responsible.

See also : List of SPNV lines in Thuringia  and List of passenger stations in Thuringia

Web links

Wiktionary: Local rail transport  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Internet presence of the Federal Working Group on Local Rail Transport (BAG-SPNV)
• List of approval authorities at the Federal Railway Authority
• Railway company at the Federal Railway Authority

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fifth ordinance for the implementation of the Disabled Persons Act
2. ↑ About us. BAG-SPNV, accessed on December 3, 2009 . 
3. ^ Members of the BAG-SPNV. January 1, 2009, accessed December 7, 2009 . 
4. ^ Sibylle Barth: Regionalization law of the federal government and public transport laws of the states. in: Hubertus Baumeister (Ed.): Law of public transport. Practical manual for local traffic with Regulation (EC) No. 1370/2007 , PBefG and local public transport laws of the federal states, Volume 2 Commentary. DVV Media, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7771-0455-3 , pp. 235–450, here pp. 259 f., Rn 26
5. ↑ Railway companies. (No longer available online.) Federal Railway Office, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 7, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
6. ↑ Railway infrastructure company. (No longer available online.) Federal Railway Office, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 7, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ↑ Authorizing Authorities. (No longer available online.) Federal Railway Office, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 12, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
8. ↑ Market report SPNV 2013. BSL Transportations Consultants, June 2013, accessed on May 11, 2020 .  
9. ↑ Market report SPNV 2015/16. BSL Transportations Consultants, March 2016, accessed May 11, 2020 .  
10. ↑ Baden-Württemberg "bwegt": The new umbrella brand for local transport is here. Press release. Ministry of Transport Baden-Wuerttemberg, October 19, 2017, accessed on April 24, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Local rail transport services of non-federal railways in Baden-Württemberg. (PDF; 80 KiB) (No longer available online.) NVBW, December 2007, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 15, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
12. ↑ We move the railway state of Bavaria. BEG, accessed on November 8, 2019 . 
13. ↑ composite structure. (No longer available online.) VBB, archived from the original on January 17, 2010 ; Retrieved December 3, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
14. ↑ Overview of the Senator's Department for Environment, Building and Transport. The Senator for the Environment, Building and Transport, accessed on December 3, 2009 . 
15. ^ Members. ZVBN, accessed on December 3, 2009 . 
16. ↑ tasks. ZVBN, accessed on December 3, 2009 . 
17. ↑ Tenders. (No longer available online.) HVV, archived from the original on September 26, 2009 ; Retrieved December 7, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
18. ↑ Clearly structured ... NVV, accessed on December 7, 2009 . 
19. ^ Shareholder of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund GmbH. (No longer available online.) RMV, archived from the original on January 23, 2010 ; Retrieved December 7, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
20. ↑ Well planned is half the battle. Basis for local transport: the local public transport map. Verkehrsgesellschaft Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, 2016, accessed on November 19, 2016 . 
21. ↑ VMV transport company. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 10, 2012 ; Retrieved October 23, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
22. ↑ Local rail transport concept. VMV - Planning ÖPNV / SPNV - Planning priorities, accessed on December 7, 2009 . 
23. ↑ About us. LNVG, accessed December 7, 2009 . 
24. ^ The Ministry and its tasks. (No longer available online.) Ministry of Science, Economy and Transport, archived from the original on October 1, 2011 ; Retrieved October 24, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
25. ↑ State Office for Road Construction and Transport Schleswig-Holstein. (No longer available online.) Ministry of Science, Economy and Transport, archived from the original on May 16, 2012 ; Retrieved October 24, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
26. ^ The railway department and its tasks. (No longer available online.) State Office for Road Construction and Transport Schleswig-Holstein, archived from the original on November 5, 2012 ; Retrieved October 24, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.