City bus Neumarkt
| city bus neumarkt | |
|---|---|
| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Neumarkt idOPf. |
| Web presence | www.swneumarkt.de |
| Reference year | 2009 |
| owner | Stadtwerke Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH (swn) |
| Board | Dominique Kinzkofer (Managing Director) |
| Operations management | Eduard Meier (Traffic Manager) |
| Transport network | VGN , RVV |
| Lines | |
| bus | 13, including 2 on-call bus routes |
| number of vehicles | |
| Omnibuses | 12 |
| statistics | |
| Passengers | 0.8 million per year |
| Mileage | 0.5 million km per year |
| Stops | 150 |
| Catchment area | 80 km² |
| Residents in the catchment area |
0.045 million |
| Operating facilities | |
| Depots | 1 |
The city bus neumarkt served in Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate the public transport on behalf of public utilities neumarkt ( swn ). The tariff of the Greater Nuremberg Transport Association (VGN) applies to the entire network of the Stadtbus neumarkt . Tickets of the Regensburger Verkehrsverbund (RVV) are recognized, but not sold.
The first bus system was set up on a trial basis as early as the 1960s, but was soon discontinued due to insufficient demand. Only in 1990 were such plans resumed. The city bus was on 1 September 1993 with five buses of the company doctor traveling from Pyrbaum-Seligenporten introduced which operated on 10 lines every hour. On August 26, 2008 it became known that the company Arzt Reisen prematurely terminated the cooperation agreement that ran until September 2009 for economic reasons. On November 27, 2008, the Neumarkt City Council decided to found Stadtwerke Neumarkt Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH , which took over the operation of bus services on January 1, 2009.
Every year around 810,000 people use the city buses; the ten millionth passenger was carried in December 2006. The busiest lines are lines 563 Bahnhof - Altenhof and 565 Bahnhof - Wolfstein, the lowest number of passengers, apart from the dial-a-ride buses 574 and 575, is on lines 573 Bahnhof - Koppenmühle and 567 Bahnhof - Lähr.
Line network
The network currently comprises 13 lines with around 150 stops. It has a length of 143 kilometers and covers large parts of the urban area as well as the capital of the municipality of Berngau . Two dial-a-bus routes take care of the remote and sparsely populated parts of the city in the north and east. The districts of Frickenhofen, Labersricht, St. Helena and Voggenthal are not in the line network. A connection to the communities of Pilsach and Sengenthal was originally considered, but has since been rejected because the supply of these places through regional bus lines has meanwhile been improved. The network is laid out in a star shape around the station .
The numbering of the lines is based on the numbering system of the VGN. These numbers are used consistently, no native numbers appear. The following table provides an overview of the route network:
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The special line 571 runs between the train station and the Volksfestplatz, but only for major events on the fairground, especially the Jura Volksfest. In 1998 it connected the Landergartenschaegelände with the large parking lots in Nürnberger Straße, at the clinic and at the festival area.
Other regional bus routes operated by Omnibusverkehr Franken and Regionalbus Ostbayern GmbH serve selected stops in the city.
Since 1993, in the course of network optimization, several routes have been changed and new stops have been created. Until 1995, line 568 continued to run at certain times to the Münchener Ring stop, thus also opening up the Stauf-Süd industrial park. This line section was discontinued due to insufficient passenger numbers, as was the extension of line 566 to the St. Helena district in the 1997 timetable. A planned extension of line 573 in Koppenmühle to Dr.-Otto-Schedl-Strasse was canceled road construction reasons never realized.
Timetable
A 60-minute cycle is guaranteed on all lines (except the dial-a-ride bus lines), which is supplemented to a 30-minute cycle on some lines. By superimposing the lines in some areas, a 20-minute cycle is sometimes created. The buses run Monday to Friday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. An extension of the operation to the evening hours was tested in 2004, but did not bring the desired success. In the summer of 2014, the municipal utilities examined the possibility of using collective call taxis to extend traffic into the evening hours and over the entire weekend. However, the expected high costs prevented implementation.
The Stadtwerke Neumarkt tried since 1993 to enable crossings to the trains to Nuremberg and Regensburg. However, this does not succeed in all cases, especially since the timetable positions of trains from Neumarkt Bahnhof are often different depending on the direction. As a further reason for the various lack of transfer connections to the train, the municipal utilities also stated that only a small proportion of the transfer passengers switch to the train at the bus station. The majority of passengers mainly use urban inland traffic and continue their journey within the route network: changes to the timetable would then have a negative impact on passengers who use inner-city links in the network. Trips within the network were also often delayed by detours via the train station and the transfer times there.
With the start of the S-Bahn between Nuremberg and Neumarkt in December 2010, the timetable was then changed across the board: The transfer connections at the station to the S-Bahn and regional services from DB Regio and agilis improved considerably, and lines 562, 569 and 570 the clock condenses.
Central transfer hubs are the train station stops (with a transition to Deutsche Bahn and all regional bus routes ), Oberer Markt or Theo-Betz-Platz and the town hall . In 1997, a covered bus station with 14 stops was built at the train station , which has an electronic passenger information system.
During the Jura Volksfest , most lines will be extended to 1 a.m. The lines will then operate on other routes from around 7 p.m. and head straight for the newly built bus parking lot near the fairground or the old town. During the Jura folk festival, the Neumarkt municipal utilities operate additional lines for districts of the Neumarkt administrative community. Since 2005, the VGN tariff has no longer been recognized for these additional journeys; only the Neumarkt municipal utility's own tickets are valid .
Vehicles and infrastructure
Stadtwerke Neumarkt is currently using twelve low-floor buses from the Setra, MAN and Mercedes-Benz brands , all of which are owned by the Stadtwerke. Only barrier-free low-floor vehicles are used, all of which are also equipped with air conditioning. The vehicle fleet should be kept as modern as possible, vehicles are replaced on average every eight years.
All buses have an optical and acoustic passenger information system . The next four stations are shown both digitally and on a display. In addition, all vehicles transmit their positions via a GPS system, which enables the buses to be displayed in real time on their own website.
All stops are at least equipped with a departure plan, at line network nodes also with a line network plan . Electronic, but not dynamic, displays are only installed at the bus station. Only more frequented stops have benches and storage facilities, since January 2009 the city of Neumarkt id OPf. gradually building more shelters. From 2019, further stops are to be gradually expanded to be barrier-free in accordance with the Neumarkt local transport plan and, in some cases, will also be equipped with passenger information systems. Information about z. B. construction site-related diversions take place in the print and online press and at the stops, on the SWN homepage and via the VGN timetable information. A priority circuit was installed at the traffic light system at the Oberes Tor crossing, which is served by all lines, with which the green phase can be requested via a radio signal.
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Pluto" is supposed to protect on neumarktonline.de, January 12, 2009
- ^ "City bus stops are being rebuilt", Neumarkter Tagblatt, July 31, 2018
Web links
- municipal utility neumarkt
- Real-time positions of the buses
- Transport association for the greater Nuremberg area
