Stadtwerke Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt am Main

Stadtwerke Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt am Main mbH

Basic information
Company headquarters	Frankfurt am Main
Web presence	www.vgf-ffm.de
Reference year	2014
owner	Stadtwerke Holding GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1996 (previous operation: 1898)
Supervisory board	Klaus Oesterling
Managing directors	Thomas Raasch Thomas Wissgott
Transport network	Rhein-Main transport association
Employee	2086
sales	254.56 million euros
Lines
Gauge	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Subway	9
tram	10 (+ 1 special line)
Other lines	Ebbelwei Express
number of vehicles
Subway car	267
Tram cars	140 + 8 sidecar
statistics
Passengers	173 million per year
Mileage	716.4 million km per year
Stops	86 underground 137 tram
Residents in the catchment area	708.5 thousand
Length of line network
Subway lines	110.87 km
Tram lines	104.81 km
Operating facilities
Depots	Gutleut Ost Heddernheim Rebstock Wagenhallen: Eckenheim Bommersheim Neu-Isenburg Transport Museum: Transport Museum Frankfurt am Main

Rail network

The public utilities public transport company Frankfurt GmbH (VGF) is the municipal transport company of the local public transport in Frankfurt . The VGF emerged in 1996 from the traffic department of Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main , which in turn emerged in 1967 from the Frankfurt am Main municipal tram , which was founded on January 1, 1898 . In 2001 traffiQ , the local transport company Frankfurt am Main mbH, was spun off from the VGF as the responsible body for local transport in Frankfurt am Main .

VGF is the operator of the Frankfurt U-Bahn and the Frankfurt am Main tram . From 2004 to 2010, VGF was also a railway company through its share in Vias GmbH . On September 1, 2014 Stadtwerke Holding GmbH took over the previous VGF subsidiary In-der-City-Bus GmbH (ICB) with the operational bus business. Infrastructure, customer and sales services will also continue to be provided by VGF in the bus sector. The Rebstock bus depot and workshop staff are made available to the ICB by VGF.

Services

The VGF has been entrusted with the implementation of local rail transport ( subway and tram ) in Frankfurt am Main until January 31, 2031. The direct award on the basis of EU regulation 1370/2007 took place on November 20, 2009 by the municipal authorities of the city of Frankfurt am Main on the decision of the city council. This means that after the previous license expires on January 31, 2011, VGF has the exclusive right to provide rail transport services in Frankfurt am Main and on the light rail lines in the cities of Oberursel and Bad Homburg vor der Höhe for a further 20 years .

In addition, with shareholder resolutions of the City of Frankfurt am Main on August 8, 2012, VGF was entrusted with the operation of the Ebbelwei-Express and the Frankfurt Transport Museum as a public service obligation to fulfill tourist and cultural purposes.

Since the 2010/2011 timetable change, VGF has no longer provided its own bus services.

In 2014, VGF employed 2086 people, 787 of them in the transport service. The vehicle fleet was divided into 267 subway cars and 148 tram cars (including historical vehicles). A service of 716.4 million passenger- kilometers was achieved on a route network of 215.69 kilometers .

Lines

In Frankfurt, 9 light rail and 10 tram lines are served:

Subway

U1: Südbahnhof ↔ Willy-Brandt-Platz ↔ Hauptwache ↔ Heddernheim ↔ Nordwestzentrum ↔ Ginnheim
U2: Südbahnhof ↔ Willy-Brandt-Platz ↔ Hauptwache ↔ Heddernheim ↔ Nieder-Eschbach ↔ Bad Homburg Gonzenheim
U3: Südbahnhof ↔ Willy-Brandt-Platz ↔ Hauptwache ↔ Heddernheim ↔ Oberursel Bahnhof ↔ Oberursel Hohemark
U4: Bockenheimer Warte ↔ Hauptbahnhof ↔ Konstablerwache ↔ Seckbacher Landstraße ↔ Riederwald Schäfflestraße ↔ Enkheim
U5: Hauptbahnhof ↔ Konstablerwache ↔ Musterschule ↔ Eckenheim ↔ Preungesheim
U6: Hausen ↔ Industriehof ↔ Bockenheimer Warte ↔ Hauptwache ↔ Konstablerwache ↔ Zoo ↔ Ostbahnhof
U7: Praunheim Heerstraße ↔ Industriehof ↔ Bockenheimer Warte ↔ Hauptwache ↔ Konstablerwache ↔ Zoo ↔ Ice Rink / Festival Square ↔ Riederwald Schäfflestraße ↔ Enkheim
U8: Südbahnhof ↔ Willy-Brandt-Platz ↔ Hauptwache ↔ Heddernheim ↔ Riedberg
U9: Ginnheim ↔ Nordwestzentrum ↔ Riedberg ↔ Nieder-Eschbach

Tram lines

11: Höchst Zuckschwerdtstraße ↔ Nied Church ↔ Central Station ↔ Fechenheim Schießhüttenstraße
12: Schwanheim Rheinlandstraße ↔ Hauptbahnhof / Münchener Straße ↔ Konstablerwache ↔ Bornheim Mitte ↔ Eissporthalle / Festplatz ↔ Fechenheim Hugo-Junkers-Straße / Runde
14: Bornheim Ernst-May-Platz ↔ Ostendstraße ↔ Central Station ↔ Gallus Gustavsburgplatz ↔ Gallus Mönchhofstraße
15: Niederrad Haardtwaldplatz ↔ Südbahnhof (↔ Offenbach city limits temporarily)
16: Ginnheim ↔ Hauptbahnhof ↔ Südbahnhof ↔ Offenbach city limits
17: Rebstockbad ↔ Hauptbahnhof ↔ Stresemannallee ↔ Louisa Bahnhof ↔ Neu-Isenburg city limits
18: Preungesheim Gravensteiner-Platz ↔ Friedberger Warte ↔ Konstablerwache ↔ Lokalbahnhof ↔ Louisa Bahnhof
19: Schwanheim Rheinlandstraße ↔ Niederrad train station ↔ Südbahnhof / Schweizer Straße ↔ Louisa train station (only 2 journeys in each direction)
20: Hauptbahnhof ↔ Schweizer- / Gartenstraße ↔ Stadion Tram (only for events in the Commerzbank-Arena stadium )
21: Nied Church ↔ Central Station ↔ Stadium Tram
Ebbelwei-Express: Zoo → Römer / Paulskirche → Hauptbahnhof → Messe / Festhalle → Hauptbahnhof → Südbahnhof → Zoo

Holdings

Until December 31, 2009, VGF held a 49 percent stake in Offenbacher Verkehrsbetriebe (OVB) in the neighboring city of Offenbach am Main , and with its parent company, Stadtwerke Offenbach Holding (SOH for short), together with 49 percent in MainMobil Offenbach GmbH (MMO) (SOH: 51 percent) involved. VGF parted with these investments against the background of the direct award of rail transport services.

Until September 1, 2014, VGF held a 51 percent stake in MainMobil Frankfurt GmbH (MMF) (SOH: 49 percent) , and 100 percent (since January 1, 2006) in Verkehrsgesellschaft In-der-City-Bus GmbH ( ICB) involved. With ICB and MMF, VGF had subsidiaries that, unlike VGF itself, were not bound by the collective agreement for the public service ( TVöD ), but instead paid their employees according to the collective agreement for bus drivers Hessen (OHE), which provided for lower wages than the TVöD . A large part of the driving staff in the bus sector was employed by these two companies. As a resolution of the city council of the city of Frankfurt am Main on July 24, 2014, the ICB was directly commissioned with the bus route bundle "D". As a result of this assignment, the previous VGF subsidiaries ICB and MMF moved under the umbrella of Stadtwerke Frankfurt Holding GmbH. All VGF buses became the property of ICB, and the Rebstock depot and the driving school were leased from ICB.

From 2004 to 2010, VGF held a 50 percent stake - alongside Rurtalbahn GmbH - in the Vias GmbH railway company , which has been running the 210-kilometer network of the Odenwaldbahn since December 11, 2005 . Three districts and the cities of Frankfurt am Main and Darmstadt are touched on five lines . The stake was transferred to the Danish State Railways (DSB) in March 2010 for legal reasons .

In December 2002, the VGF participated as a "strategic partner" in the Hanau tram . This participation was given up again in the course of the integration with OVB.

Vehicle fleet

The fleet includes the tram types K (for the Ebbelwei-Express ), the low-floor vehicles R and S , as well as several museum vehicles, most of which are exhibited in the VGF's own transport museum, while at least one of the post-war types L to Pt is operational is.

U-Bahn operations are handled by U4 and U5 vehicles. The prototype 1001 and the U2 railcars 303–305 will be preserved as museum vehicles . The U3 railcars 451, 452 and 453 will be returned to their original state as future museum vehicles.