Stuttgart trams

Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG
Basic information
Company headquarters	Stuttgart
Web presence	www.ssb-ag.de
Reference year	2017
owner	City of Stuttgart
Board	Thomas Moser Sabine Groner-Weber Mario Laube
Operations management	Reinhold Schröter
Transport network	VVS
Employee	3234 (including 98 trainees)
sales	EUR 343 million (thereof EUR 235 million ticket revenue)
Lines
Gauge	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Light rail	19th
bus	53
Other lines	3 (rack railway, funicular railway (each meter gauge) and a park railway)
number of vehicles
Light rail car	203 DT 8
Omnibuses	263, of which - 180 articulated buses - 83 solo buses
other vehicles	3 rack railway cars 2 funicular cars
statistics
Passengers	225 million per year (616,700 per day)
Mileage	32 million km per year (reference year 2010) , of which - 16.3 million km bus - 15.8 million km rail
Stops	832, including 25 underground stops
Catchment area	591 km²
Residents in the catchment area	1.05 million
Length of line network
Light rail lines	239 km
Bus routes	637 km
Operating facilities
Depots	3 tram depots, 3 bus depots
Other operating facilities	1 cog railway depot 1 funicular railway with mountain and valley stations 1 mini tram circuit with storage shed 1 head office with main workshop 1 operations control center 1 track construction yard 1 park railway in the Killesberg Park
Track length	273 km

Electrically operated public transport in Stuttgart and Esslingen am Neckar

The Stuttgart streetcars AG (SSB) is the transport company of the state capital Stuttgart . It is part of the Stuttgart Transport and Tariff Association (VVS). The SSB operate 19  light rail lines , two of them only for certain events and two of them as additional lines due to the renovation of the Staatsgalerie stop because of Stuttgart 21 , a rack railway line , a funicular railway , 44  bus lines and a park railway not included in the VVS tariff , the Killesbergbahn . There is also a non-public children's tram . The company is based in the SSB center in the Wallgraben industrial park in the Möhringen district .

In 2013 the company had a cost recovery rate of 94.5%. She achieved 199.3 million euros in fare income; nevertheless, a municipal grant of 17.5 million euros was necessary. In 2014 the SSB posted a profit of 5.6 million euros for the first time since 1959.

The 2017 budget provides for total expenditure of around 373 million euros, which is offset by net income of 350.5 million euros.

Corporate structure

Share over 100 RM in the Stuttgart trams from August 1929

The shareholders of Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG are the Stuttgarter Versorgungs- und Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (SVV) with 90% and the state capital Stuttgart with 10%. Since the state capital Stuttgart is the sole shareholder of the SIA, it has a total of 100% of the shares in Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG .

The background to this construction were tax reasons, as SSB AG and the Technical Works of the City of Stuttgart (TWS) used to be bundled under the umbrella of the SVV . This enabled TWS income to be reallocated to the loss-making SSB. With the dissolution of TWS, the SIA was endowed with assets of around EUR 500 million. The SIA's investment income still finances the SSB's losses today, so that a loss carryforward does not have to be offset through the city budget of the city of Stuttgart.

Until 2009, the heirs of the former Filderbahn owners held a 0.01% stake in the SVV. The city of Stuttgart took over their shares in order to continue to be the sole owner of the transport services in the city of Stuttgart directly, i.e. without the obligation to tender, to the SSB (so-called in-house allocation ).

The investments of the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG include the tourist subsidiary SSB Reisen GmbH (100%) and the Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart GmbH (26%). Until its dissolution at the end of 2015, SSB held a 12.5% ​​stake in END Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG .

The administrative committee of the city of Stuttgart decided in September 2015 to increase the share capital of SSB by 9.9 to 176.9 million euros.

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Light rail

Tram line U1 between Stöckach and Neckartor

Tram line 15 on a steep stretch in Haußmannstraße (today U15)

→ Main article : Stadtbahn Stuttgart

The light rail network comprises 19 standard gauge lines , eleven of which have emerged from former tram lines since 1983. Since the last delivery in August 2014, 185 DT 8 light rail trains have been owned by SSB, two of which are prototype single wagons that are parked in the Heslach depot - not accessible to the public.

Rack railway

Rack railway at Marienplatz

→ Main article : Stuttgart rack railway

The cog railway officially bears the line designation 10, but is now also provided with the term Zacke , which has been propagated since 1984 in the plans of the SSB - instead of Zacketse in common parlance . The route with a gradient of up to 17.8% leads from Marienplatz in Stuttgart-Süd up to Degerloch .

Funicular

Funicular

→ Main article : Stuttgart funicular railway

The funicular officially bears the line designation 20, but is referred to as a cable car in plans of the SSB . On its way from Südheimer Platz up to the forest cemetery, it masters a gradient of 27%.

tram

Changeover to light rail

→ Main article : “Conversion of the tram to light rail operation” in the article Stadtbahn Stuttgart

As its name suggests, the SSB emerged from a tram operation (see section history ). The tram system was transformed into a modern light rail system in a lengthy conversion phase through the construction of elevated platforms, tunnels, gauge changes and the procurement of new vehicles. With the commissioning of the U15 light rail line on December 8, 2007, the era of the tram in regular traffic in Stuttgart ended. Up to this point in time, line 15 was the last meter-gauge tram line.

35 GT4 articulated multiple units were last used on line 15 . Most of the vehicles were sold to Romania at the beginning of 2008. Ten GT4s will remain with the SSB, six of which will be used as museum cars and for special trips (vintage car lines 21 and 23), four cars will be kept ready as spare parts donors.

Classic car lines

Two vintage tram lines run in Stuttgart every Sunday during regular operation.

Classic car line 21

The vintage car line 21 leads from Bad Cannstatt to Berliner Platz and via the main train station back to Bad Cannstatt. Due to the construction of the Staatsgalerie stop, the tours of line 21 to the city center have been suspended from May 2016 until at least 2022.

Classic car line 23

The old-timer line 23 runs from the Stuttgart Tram World in Bad Cannstatt, which opened on July 4, 2009, via the Nordbahnhofviertel to Ruhbank, so it largely follows the course of the former line 15. Due to construction work in the course of the construction of the Rosenstein tunnel on Bundesstraße 10 , the connecting curve was Mercedesstraße - Wilhelma was interrupted for four years so that line 23 was operated from July 28, 2013 up to and including December 25, 2017 as line 23E with vintage buses. On December 26, 2017, the tram line with parallel traffic was reopened by buses from line 23E.

The last tram cars of the type GT4 (and a DoT4) in the listed former tram depot Bad Cannstatt, today's tram museum Straßenbahnwelt Stuttgart

Small round line

Furthermore, on the Sunday opening days of the tram museum, there are round trips on the so-called 500 m long museum loop between the exit and entrance of the Bad Cannstatt depot through Daimlerstrasse and Mercedesstrasse.

bus

Low-floor articulated bus (2007)

Mercedes-Benz Citaro bus (2010)

Volvo articulated bus on the X1

history

The age of urban public bus traffic in Stuttgart began in September 1926 with the first lines of the company Stuttgarter Kraftwagenlinien-Gesellschaft (SKG) with the "swimming pool line" A Johannes- / Silberburgstraße - Schlossplatz - Kursaal Cannstatt. The SKG was founded by the state capital Stuttgart, the SSB (majority owner) and the Daimler-Motorengesellschaft. The management was with the SSB. The first buses were supplied by the Benz company, Gaggenau.

In 1927, the so-called Autoverkehrsverband Stuttgart GmbH (AVS) was founded by the cities and districts of Stuttgart, Esslingen, Waiblingen, Leonberg and Nürtingen. In 1927 the AVS opened the line L: Stuttgart - Solitude - Leonberg and the line N: Degerloch - Nürtingen. By 1928 there were lines to Kemnat, Schmiden - Untertürkheim, Cannstatt - Oeffingen, Stuttgart - Waiblingen, Waiblingen - Esslingen, S-Vaihingen - Sindelfingen - Böblingen, 1929 Line M: Stuttgart - Mahdental - Eltingen and others. Here too, SSB took over the management. Although the fares were higher than the comparable tram tariff, most of the lines were unprofitable and the first jobs were soon to be found. In order to prevent further closures, the SSB therefore took over most of the lines between 1931 and 1937 at Stuttgart's request, while others were given to private customers. SKG and AVS were dissolved as companies and their shares were taken over by SSB. To distinguish them from the yellow-black-white tram cars of the SSB, the buses of the SKG and the AVS were painted green, black and white to emphasize the regional-communal element. The SSB kept this color scheme for a long time.

After the Second World War , the bus traffic of the SSB increased by leaps and bounds because the new residential areas on the outskirts could not be supplied with tram connections as quickly as the demand was there. In 1960 the SSB operated over 40 lines with over 170 vehicles. The SSB had previously taken over a number of lines, especially in Stuttgart, but also in the surrounding area, from private companies, because the state capital attached great importance to the fact that regular bus services in and to Stuttgart should be uniformly in municipal hands. Bus traffic was not economical in 1960 either; the losses had to be offset by the income from the tram lines. From 1951/1952 onwards, the SSB also gradually painted its buses in the usual Stuttgart municipal colors yellow and black (with white window band) and relied almost exclusively on the make Mercedes-Benz. From 1956, the conversion of some outdated, rather less frequented inner-city tram lines to buses began.

In addition to the Stuttgart city area, the SSB bus network also includes lines to the neighboring cities of Sindelfingen , Leonberg , Gerlingen , Korntal , Fellbach , Leinfelden-Echterdingen , Ostfildern and Filderstadt . In the surrounding area, Neuhausen , Wolfschlugen and Nürtingen in the Esslingen district are served. Line 92 has the longest route from Stuttgart-Mitte via Leonberg to Stuttgart-Heslach (41 km).

The fully extending outside the Stuttgarter urban area lines 35, 36, 37, 38, 67, 75, 94 and 98 were made by the end of 2018 for the city of Stuttgart according to the Council Regulation (EC) No. 1370/2007 , the transport services in their object ownership from January 1, 2019 directly to the SSB. At the same time, the former line 401 of the private company Knisel was transferred to SSB and is now run under line number 53.

Bus routes

In 1961 the inner city lines and in 1978 the suburban lines were given numbers - until then the lines were differentiated by letters. The numbering of the lines was done according to the following scheme: the 40 area denotes inner city lines, while the suburban lines are named clockwise - from the northeast with the 50 lines to the northwest with the 90 lines. The Filderquer lines outside the Stuttgart city area, which were released in 2018, were an exception, for they were based on the 30s area formerly used by the Filderbahn .

line	course	Tact
center
X1	Bad Cannstatt  Wilhelmsplatz   → Dorotheenstraße → Rathaus  → Wilhelmsbau   → Büchsenstraße   → Kleiner Schlossplatz → Hauptbahnhof → Bad Cannstatt Wilhelmsplatz  Express bus, only Mon – Fri from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.	5, -, -
X2	Rotebühlplatz  - Feuersee   - Schwabstraße  - Schillerhöhe - Leonberg Express bus, only Mon – Fri from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.	30, -, -
40	Wagenburgstrasse - Central Station   - Linden Museum  - Hölderlinplatz   - Kräherwald - Vogelsang	10, 10, 15
41	Berliner Platz   - Feuersee   - Marienplatz   - Lerchenrain School	10, 10, 15
42	Schlossplatz   - Eugensplatz   - Gablenberg  - Ostendplatz   - State Gallery   - Central Station   - Linden Museum  - Schwabstraße  - Erwin-Schöttle-Platz	5/10, 10, 15
43	Pragsattel   - Killesberg   - Doggenburg - Linden Museum  - Berliner Platz   - Rotebühlplatz   - Charlottenplatz  - Marienplatz   - Feuersee	10, 10, 15
44	Killesberg   - Hauptbahnhof   - Charlottenplatz  - Feuersee   - Schwabstrasse  - Westbahnhof	10, 10, 15
45	Buchwald - Gablenberg  - Ostendplatz   - Neckarpark  (stadium)  (-  Mercedes-Benz world ) - Bad Cannstatt train station	20, 20, 30
Northeast
50	Killesberg   - Doggenburg - Kräherwald - Westbahnhof only school traffic	-
52	( Stammheim  Korntaler Straße   -) Neuwirtshaus  Borkumstraße - Zuffenhausen  Ohmstraße / train station   - Zuffenhausen Kelterplatz   - Rot  - Burgholzhof  - Hallschlag   - Rosensteinbrücke   - Bad Cannstatt  Wilhelmsplatz  in 10-minute repeater traffic every second bus only between Zuffenhausen train station and Bad Cannstatt Wilhelmsplatz	10/20, 20, 30
53	Mühlhausen   - Zazenhausen  - Zuffenhausen train station  (-  Feuerbach train station  )	20, 30, 25/35
54	Freiberg   - Mulhouse   - Max-Eyth-See   - Neugereut   - Neugereut Marabu road (- Upper Brickyard   - Summer Rain  ) in the HVZ 10-minute intervals between Max-Eyth-See Summer Rain	10/20, 20, 20
56	Münster train station   - Am Römerkastell  - Rosenstein Bridge   - Bad Cannstatt   - Neckarpark  (stadium)   - Mercedes-Benz world	10/20, 20, 30
57	Pragsattel   → Robert Bosch Hospital  → Burgholzhof  → Pragsattel	15, 15, 20
58	Schmiden  - Obere Ziegelei  (-  Sommerrain  ) in high season only to Obere Ziegelei	20, 30, 30
east
60	Oeffingen  - Schmiden  - Fellbach train station   - Fellbach Luther Church   - Luginsland  - Untertürkheim train station	10/15, 20, 20
61	Rotenberg  - Untertürkheim train station   - Obertürkheim train station from May to October on Sundays every 15 minutes between Rotenberg and Untertürkheim	20, 20, 30
62	Uhlbach  - Obertürkheim train station   - Hedelfingen   - Rohracker	15, 15, 30
64	Place   - woman's head	20, 30, 30
65	Obertürkheim train station   - Hedelfingen   - Lederberg - Heumaden  Bockelstraße   - Sillenbuch  Schemppstraße   - Riedenberg  - Birkach  - Plieningen  Garbe   - Airport / Messe  (SAB)  in the high season 10-minute intervals between Obertürkheim and Heumaden Bockelstraße	20, 20, 30
66	(Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium - Schemppstraße   -) Kirchheimer Straße - Kühwasen - Sillenbuch   - Kirchheimer Straße (- Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium) Mon-Fri during peak hours (except for a few trips) and daily in late-night traffic, the line starts and ends at the Get off at Kirchheimer Strasse	15/30, 30, 30
south
X7	Degerloch   - Landhaus   - EnBW-City   - Stetten  - Plattenhardt  - Bonlanden  - Harthausen  Carl-Zeiss-Straße express bus, only Mon – Fri from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., trial run until 2021	30, -, -
70	( Hoffeld  - Degerloch   -) Ruhbank  (-  Schönberg ) - Birkach  - Plieningen  Garbe   - Plieningen Seemühlenweg Mon – Fri during the day at 10-minute intervals between Ruhbank and Plieningen Garbe	20, 20, 30
71	Hoffeld  - Degerloch   - Asemwald  - Schönberg only Mon – Fri; on Sat / Sun replaced by extended line 70; 15-minute intervals between Hoffeld and Degerloch	30, -, -
72	Möhringen train station   - Fasanenhof  Europaplatz	10/20, 20, 30
73	Degerloch   - Steckfeld  - Plieningen  Garbe   - Scharnhausen  - Neuhausen  Brühlsiedlung every 20 or 30 minutes between Degerloch and Plieningen Seemühlenweg	40, 60, 60
74	Degerloch   - Asemwald  - Birkach  - Plieningen  Garbe   - Bernhausen train station   - Sielmingen  - Wolfschlugen  - Oberensingen  - Nürtingen  central bus station  between Bernhausen and Nürtingen 30-minute intervals or 15-minute intervals for peak hours; The section between Degerloch and Bernhausen is only served during peak hours from Monday to Friday	30/60, 60, 60
76	Degerloch   - Asemwald  - Birkach  - Plieningen  Garbe   - Bernhausen train station   - Bonlanden  - Plattenhardt  - Stetten  - Echterdingen train station	30, 60, 60
77	Degerloch   - Landhaus   - EnBW-City   - Echterdingen train station   - Stetten  - Plattenhardt  - Bonlanden  - Harthausen  Carl-Zeiss-Straße outside the peak hours 30-minute intervals between Echterdingen and Harthausen; HVZ amplifier between Echterdingen and Plattenhardt	20/60, 60, 60
78	Degerloch   - Messe West only for large public exhibitions	-
southwest
80	Vaihingen train station  (east)   → Lapp Kabel  → Handwerkstraße → Vaihingen train station  (east)  only Mon – Fri	-
81	Büsnau  - Lauchhau - Vaihingen train station   - Rohr train station  - Dürrlewang	10, 20, 20
82	Waldeck   - Dachswald - University   - Vaihingen train station   - Rohrer Höhe - Rohr  Mitte (-  Musberg  - Leinfelden train station ) HVZ amplifier between University / Vaihingen train station and Rohr	20, 20, 20
84	Vaihingen train station   - Kurmärker barracks  - Sindelfingen  central bus station (- Spitzholz - Büsnau  - Lauchhau - University ) Mon – Fri during the day at 30-minute intervals between Vaihingen train station and Gründgensstraße; Sindelfingen - University section not on Sundays and in late traffic	60, 60, 60
86	Vaihingen Bahnhof   - Rohr  - Musberg  - Leinfelden Bahnhof in late-night traffic replaced by an extended line 82	30, 30, 60
northwest
90	Korntal train station   - Weilimdorf Löwen-Markt   - Weilimdorf train station (- Weilimdorf industrial area) - Hausen  - gable	15/30, 30, 30
91	Feuerbach train station   - Botnang  - Forsthaus I (-  University  - Lauchhau - Büsnau  - Sindelfingen  Spitzholz) Mon – Fri to Lauchhau, in high season further to Sindelfingen Spitzholz, Sat / Sun to Forsthaus I	30, 30, 60
92	Rotebühlplatz   - Feuersee   - Westbahnhof  - Solitude  - Schillerhöhe - Leonberg  - Eltingen  - Ramtel  - Büsnau  - Lauchhau - University  - Heslach  Vogelrain  in late traffic only between Rotebühlplatz and Leonberg Bahnhof; Sat / Sun during the day at 30-minute intervals between Rotebühlplatz and Forsthaus II	30, 60, 60
99	( Freiberg  Schulzentrum -) Zuffenhausen train station  (- Schlotwiese) - Porsche  - Stammheim  Korntaler Straße  in late-night traffic replaced by extended line 52	20, 40, 40

night bus

The night bus routes that have existed since 1990 operate on the nights from Thursday to Friday, Friday to Saturday and Saturday to Sunday as well as before public holidays. All night bus routes in the Stuttgart city area (N1–10) start from the central departure stop at Schlossplatz . On the nights from Thursday to Friday, all night buses run at 1:20, 2:30 and 3:40 a.m. On Friday / Saturday and Saturday / Sunday nights, they are also on the move on all lines at 2:00 and 3:10.

line	course
N1	Schlossplatz → Marienplatz → Heslach → University → Vaihingen → Büsnau → Heslach → Schlossplatz
N2	Schlossplatz → Berliner Platz → Vogelsang → Botnang → Schwabstraße → Rotebühlplatz → Hölderlinplatz → Killesberg → Schlossplatz
N3	Schlossplatz → Feuerbach → Weilimdorf → Giebel → Gerlingen → Hausen → Feuerbach → Schlossplatz
N4	Schlossplatz → Stöckach → Bad Cannstatt → Münster → Hallschlag → Zuffenhausen → Stammheim → Zuffenhausen → Schlossplatz
N5	Schlossplatz → Ostheim → Bad Cannstatt → Steinhaldenfeld → Neugereut → Hofen → Mühlhausen → Freiberg → Rot → Burgholzhof → Nordbahnhof → Schlossplatz
N6	Schlossplatz → Stöckach → Wangen → Untertürkheim → Luginsland → Fellbach → Schmiden → Oeffingen → Bad Cannstatt → Schlossplatz
N7	Schlossplatz → Gänsheide → Ruhbank → Sillenbuch → Heumaden → Hedelfingen → Obertürkheim → Uhlbach → Untertürkheim → Ostheim → Schlossplatz
N8	Schlossplatz → Degerloch → Hoffeld → Asemwald → Birkach → Plieningen → Steckfeld → Degerloch → Schlossplatz
N9	Schlossplatz → Ostendplatz → Gablenberg → Degerloch → Sonnenberg → Möhringen → Fasanenhof → Möhringen → Degerloch → Schlossplatz
N10	Schlossplatz → Hauptbahnhof → Rosenbergplatz → Schwabstraße → Heslach → Kaltental → Vaihingen → Rohr → Dürrlewang → Möhringen → Degerloch → Schlossplatz

Contractor

Several lines are fully served by the private bus companies Fischle  (54, 58, 60), GR Omnibus  (64, 66), Knisel (53), Schlienz-Tours  (73) and Seitter (90) on behalf of SSB .

Vehicle fleet

The SSB have their own tow truck .

Mercedes-Benz O 305 of the SSB in the Mercedes-Benz Museum

The SSB have around 270 buses of their own for regular services, around 70% of which are articulated buses . After the last high-floor Mercedes-Benz O 405 buses were taken out of service at the end of 2010 , only completely low-floor vehicles are in use today . In 2012 ten low-floor MAN articulated buses of the type NG 363 (built in 2001) were taken out of service, from 2013 the first generation of the articulated buses of the Mercedes-Benz Citaro type (built 2000-2006) and from 2017 the oldest Citaro solo buses (built 2003-2006) 2006). Since 2019, all buses regularly used in regular service have at least complied with the EEV emissions standard . The last four MAN solo buses were taken out of service in 2020, and the fleet has consisted exclusively of Mercedes-Benz and Volvo buses since then.

From August 2008 four extra-long articulated buses of the Mercedes-Benz CapaCity model operated on routes 42, 72 and 81. In 2009, four more vehicles were ordered; Another CapaCity followed in 2010 , which was previously used as a demonstration car. Since the end of 2010, CapaCity has only been running on the busiest downtown Stuttgart line 42, as operations on lines 72 and 81 were not profitable. All nine vehicles had three doors. In December 2017, these buses were taken out of service early - they were replaced by ten new CapaCity with four doors. This was preceded by the announcement by the SSB that, due to the air pollution in the Stuttgart valley basin, only vehicles with Euro VI diesel engines or alternative drives would be used there from 2018 if possible.

From March 2014, three, later four, hydrogen hybrid buses of the type Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL-Hybrid were used in the course of the S-Presso project - Stuttgart practical testing of hydrogen-powered buses . With the cars of this small series, the practicality of the fuel cell drive in public buses was to be tested in several European cities . The vehicles mainly operated on lines 79 (Plieningen airport; until May 2016, then line closed) and 67 (Stadtverkehr Fellbach; until 2018) as well as occasionally on lines 41 and 45.In the absence of a hydrogen filling station, the SSB depots will be in the vicinity the buses are now only used sporadically. A dedicated hydrogen filling station is being planned at the Gaisburg depot.

Twelve Mercedes-Benz Citaro GDH buses with serial hybrid drive covered around two million kilometers between 2010 and the beginning of 2016. The diesel fuel savings are expected to be up to 19%, with the greatest potential being shown on the topographically demanding route 43. Volvo buses with a parallel hybrid system have also been in use since 2015 . After these were initially only procured in the solo bus variant, since October 2018 five articulated buses of the type Volvo 7900A Hybrid have also been running on the newly established express bus route X1 and, since its conversion to predominantly solo bus operation at the end of 2019, also on other routes. In addition, since the end of 2017, vehicles of the Mercedes-Benz Citaro hybrid have been used in articulated design and since the end of 2018 also in the solo bus variant, which are designed as mild hybrids .

In addition to the vehicles listed below, the SSB also has a fleet of vehicles currently consisting of eleven historic buses that are looked after by the Stuttgart Historic Trams Association. Most buses are ready to run and are used for special trips. In addition, an O 305 from the SSB is on display in the Mercedes-Benz Museum . The subsidiary SSB Travel fleet currently consists of four to five coaches of the Comfort Class 500 of Setra , which are usually after five years replaced by new vehicles. Before that, the Neoplan Cityliner model dominated the coach fleet for a long time.

number	model	Wagon number	Construction year	Art	length	Doors	comment
100	Mercedes-Benz Citaro G (C2)	7214-7313	2015-2020	articulated bus	18 meters	3 doors	Diesel engine ( Euro VI )
65	Mercedes-Benz Citaro G (Facelift)	7148-7213	2008-2013	articulated bus	18 meters	3 doors	Diesel engine ( EEV )
23	Volvo 7900 Hybrid / Electric Hybrid	5505-5527	2015-2020	Solo bus	12 meters	2 doors	parallel hybrid ( Euro VI )
20th	Mercedes-Benz Citaro (Facelift)	5189-5208	2010	Solo bus	12 meters	2 doors	Diesel engine ( EEV )
17th	Mercedes-Benz Citaro (C2)	5209-5225	2015-2017	Solo bus	12 meters	2 doors	Diesel engine ( Euro VI )
14th	Mercedes-Benz Citaro hybrid (C2)	5226-5239	2018	Solo bus	12 meters	2 doors	Mild hybrid ( Euro VI )
10	Mercedes-Benz CapaCity (C2)	7710-7719	2017	articulated bus	19.73 meters	4 doors	Diesel engine ( Euro VI )
7th	Mercedes-Benz Citaro GDH (Facelift)	7546-7552	2013	articulated bus	18 meters	3 doors	serial hybrid ( EEV )
5	Mercedes-Benz Citaro G hybrid (C2)	7553-7557	2017	articulated bus	18 meters	3 doors	Mild hybrid ( Euro VI ); WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS
5	Volvo 7900A Hybrid	7558-7562	2018	articulated bus	18 meters	3 doors	parallel hybrid ( Euro VI ); WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS
4th	Mercedes-Benz Citaro BZH	5501-5504	2013/2014	Solo bus	12 meters	3 doors	Fuel cell hybrid ( ZEV )
2	Bicycle trailer	9901-9902	2014	Bicycle trailer			Bike touring trips on route 92

Depots

The buses are used from three depots. Around 150 buses are stationed in Gaisburg  (BF 6) ^▼ , where the main bus workshop is also located. This depot has existed since 1988, in 1997 it was enlarged and replaced the Cannstatt depot, which was built in 1931. The 40, 50, 60 and 90 lines are served from here. The depot opened in 1975 at the SSB center in Möhringen (BF 7) ^▼ with around 85 buses is for lines 80 to 86, most courses on lines 41 and 72 and individual courses on lines 70, 71, 74, 76 and 77 responsible. On lines 40, 42, 43, 44, 50 and 57, the depots Gaisburg and Möhringen share the circulation. The Filderstadt-Sielmingen depot (BF 8) ^▼ , which has existed since 1957, houses around 40 buses for routes 70, 71, 72, 74, 76 and 77 as well as individual routes on route 65.

Killesbergbahn

→ Main article : Killesbergbahn

On January 1, 2011, the SSB took over the Killesbergbahn, a park railway in the Killesbergpark, from the garden and cemetery office of the city of Stuttgart . As a pure park railway with only one stop, it is not part of the transport network.

SSB Flex

A Mercedes-Benz V-Class from SSB Flex

On June 1, 2018, the SSB introduced a new type of transport service under the name SSB Flex . It is a so - called demand - controlled area operation or ridepooling , i.e. H. a digital, demand-driven, fully flexible call bus system. In this purely app-based offer, an algorithm combines several driving requests in one vehicle in order to reduce the environmental impact and to justify a low fare. The ridepooling technology comes from moovel Group GmbH, a subsidiary of Daimler AG , which has been testing the technology in a public pilot operation in Stuttgart since December 2017. SSB Flex is the first ride pooling offer in Germany that has been approved as a regular service in accordance with the Passenger Transport Act. At the start of operations in June 2018, SSB Flex was offered on working days in daytime traffic as a feeder to and from transfer hubs in the SSB network in the Bad Cannstatt and Degerloch districts as well as in evening and night traffic on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays in downtown Stuttgart. A special feature of the offer is that the app can be used to book an intermodal trip as a combination of SSB Flex and conventional public transport. At the start of operations, the SSB Flex fleet consisted of ten vehicles of the Mercedes-Benz V-Class and the fully electric version of the Mercedes-Benz B-Class .

On August 1, 2019, the SSB Flex offer was fundamentally revised. The business area was expanded to cover the entire city of Stuttgart and the operating times were harmonized by offering SSB Flex daily from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. (Sunday to Wednesday) or 4 a.m. (Thursday to Saturday) the following day. Island operation in daytime traffic in Bad Cannstatt and Degerloch was given up in this context.

In December 2019, a further range expansion followed. Since then, traffic geared towards those employed in the SynergiePark Vaihingen has also been offered on working mornings and afternoons in the south of Stuttgart . As part of the expanded range, the SSB Flex vehicle fleet was expanded to include two eVito Tourers .

history

First generation electric tram car on the circular track

Two-day depot at Marienplatz (1898)

This SSB logo, which was replaced by the current company logo in 1998, can still be found on numerous vehicles and operational systems today.

The history of Stuttgart trams goes back to April 7, 1868, when the Stuttgarter Pferde-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (SPE) was founded, which operated a standard-gauge horse - drawn tram from July 29, 1868 . The new Stuttgart tram company Lipken und Cie. (NSS) set up another meter-gauge horse - drawn tram in 1886 . Three years later, on February 27, 1889, the SPE and the NSS merged to form the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG (SSB). The meter gauge was chosen as the uniform gauge - mainly because of the topography of the city. After initial attempts in 1892, the route network was electrified in 1895. From 1912 on, the SSB operated the Esslingen am Neckar tram , which was closed in 1944, on behalf of the Eßlinger Städtische Straßenbahn (ESS) .

In 1919 the Cannstatter Straßenbahn GmbH was taken over by the SSB. In 1920 a track connection financed by the city of Stuttgart followed on the Bopser , it connected the Neue Weinsteige line of the Filderbahn with the network of the SSB. The retrofitting of five Filderbahn and eight SSB railcars with both sanding bar and roller pantographs enabled continuous traffic from Stuttgart to Degerloch via the Neue Weinsteige . In the following year, SSB took over the management of the Filderbahn.

The meter-gauge network in the greater Stuttgart area achieved the largest expansion in its history in 1929 with the newly established track connections to the Filderbahn in Vaihingen and the Feuerbach municipal tram (SSF) and the opening of the Neuhausen branch of the Esslingen – Nellingen – Denkendorf tram . The SSB last held a 12.5% ​​stake in its operating company, which, after ceasing its tram operations on February 28, 1978, operated as END Verkehrsgesellschaft until the end of 2015 . On October 30, 1929, the funicular to the forest cemetery was put into operation. In 1934 the Filderbahn-Gesellschaft and SSF were taken over by the SSB.

As in many other German cities, the introduction of trolleybuses was also examined in Stuttgart in the 1930s . At the end of 1939, the SSB carried out test drives on the Westbahnhof – Charlottenbuche tram route with a borrowed trolleybus. During these test drives, only one of the two pantograph poles was attached to the single-pole tram overhead line . The return current between the withdrawn second rod and the grooved rails was via a cable. The attempt was positive, but the events of the war prevented the introduction of the new means of transport. In addition, the investment in the overhead line network would not have been economical.

After the Esslingen tram was converted to trolleybus operation, the SSB took over most of the vehicles in 1944 and incorporated them into their vehicle scheme. The trolleybus Esslingen am Neckar has since reached Stuttgart-Obertürkheim; it was also operated by the SSB until 1950. In return, the track connection between the Stuttgart tram network and the END network was discontinued in 1944.

In 1953, the SSB carried out the first tests with six-axle large-capacity railcars, but these were unsatisfactory. In the following year the first all-steel two-axle type T2 built by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen was put into operation, the last two-axle tram cars in Stuttgart (in regular service until 1976). In 1955, the entire vehicle fleet was converted from roller to pantograph operation and the contact line was adapted accordingly.

The first series of articulated tram cars GT4 were delivered in 1959. 350 vehicles of this type had been delivered to the SSB by 1963, 35 of which were still in regular service before the tram operation was discontinued at the end of 2007.

In 1961, line 3 was the first inner-city tram line to be completely converted to bus operation (line 41), and in the following years the network was continuously tightened and thinned out.

In 1962, construction work began on the first tunnel section at Charlottenplatz, which went into operation in 1966.

In 1964, 70 type T2 wagons were converted into double multiple units with a middle section of the type DoT4 . These remained in regular service until around 1983. Subsequently, six copies were converted into an accident equipment vehicle for a meter-gauge depot each. These were used in this way until the respective depots were closed.

From 1965 to 1975, one -and-a-half-decker omnibuses on Mercedes-Benz O 317 chassis were used on two external bus routes .

In 1972, when the western part of line 8 through Schwabstrasse and Rosenbergstrasse with the Schwab tunnel in the west of Stuttgart was discontinued, the first tram tunnel in Stuttgart at the time lost this function and has since been a pure road tunnel again. With the new tunnel between Charlottenplatz and Stöckach, the northeastern part of this line between Sängerstraße and Ostendplatz with the steepest section of Stuttgart in the Werfmershalde was disconnected from the remaining network and converted to bus operation.

In 1976, the tram routes to Killesberg and Doggenburg (line 10) were disconnected from the rest of the network through the new Heilbronner Strasse tunnel and, despite previously carried out, positive test drives, converted to a bus (then line 43) for possible GT4 use.

With the establishment of the Stuttgart Transport and Tariff Association (VVS) in 1978, the SSB were integrated into it. The external bus routes were given numbers instead of the previously usual letters to identify the route. The last above-ground tram traffic on Schlossplatz and the upper Königstraße as well as the routes to Gablenberg (line 8) and to Leipziger Platz (line 21) have been discontinued. The SSB handed over the operational management of the END tram lines converted to omnibus to the municipal transport company Esslingen am Neckar (SVE).

Automatic stop announcements have existed since 1979 and are still spoken by Dorothee Roth today.

In 1980, the SSB used the DoT4 929 , which was converted into a party car 999 , a special vehicle that was still new in Germany at the time, which could be rented by anyone and which enjoyed great popularity. Other transport companies later also introduced special party or restaurant cars based on his model.

In 1981, the parallel Spitta- / Forststraße of lines 2 and 9 in the west of Stuttgart was eliminated (the trains have been running in both directions through Bebelstraße) with the associated Herder- / Bebelstraße curve, which was replaced by the new Vogelsang loop. This was the last section in the Stuttgart route network that was not suitable for GT4. The DoT4 railcars lost their last main line with line 2.

In 1983 the last tunnel section in the city center was opened at the Rotebühlplatz stop . The provisional ramp at Wilhelmsbau was replaced after twelve years and, five years after the opening of the nearby Stadtmitte underground S-Bahn station , its preliminary construction work was used to cross the S-Bahn tunnel and the underground Rotebühlpassage above it (pedestrian / shopping arcade ) connected to the tram stop.

The Möhringen – Plieningen section of line 3 (before 1978 lines 31 and 32) was served from 1983 with standard-gauge DT 8 pre-production railcars (DT 8.1 to DT 8.3), and the scheduled use of the DoT4 railcar and the two-axle trailer for it finally ended. In 1985, Line 3 was the first meter-gauge tram line to be converted to standard-gauge light rail operations.

In the spring of 1986 line 1 (Vaihingen – Fellbach) and in summer line 14 (Heslach – Mühlhausen) were switched to light rail traffic. Light rail vehicles were now also driving in downtown Stuttgart. However, the track loops through Fellbach city center and through Vaihingen and the Vaihingen – Rohr line were no longer necessary.

The commissioning of the Neue Weinsteige tunnel in advance of the tram meant the end of the previous panoramic route in 1987, which, however, had increasingly represented a traffic obstacle. In Feuerbach , a new route along the train route replaced the old route of lines 6 and 13 through Steiermärker Straße.

In 1988 the folk festival line (later U11) to Cannstatter Wasen was served by light rail vehicles for the first time.

With the conversion of line 9 (Hedelfingen – Vogelsang) in 1989, the previous Wangen through-road was no longer necessary; instead, it now runs like lines 4 and 13 via the Wasenstraße triangle.

In 1990, the U5 (Freiberg – Leinfelden) and U6 (Feuerbach – Möhringen) cross-valley lines were the first two new light rail lines to go into operation at the same time, and an earlier tram line was temporarily revived with the amplifier line 16 (Gerlingen – Heumaden). Nevertheless, with the hasty termination of the lines Leinfelden – Echterdingen (line 6) and Vaihingen – Rohr (line 1; already closed in 1986), the thinning of the network reached its absolute climax.

After the U6 line was extended to Giebel after the Weilimdorfer Tunnel was completed in 1992, it operated for the first time as far as the city limits of Gerlingen in 1993. The newly introduced U7 (Killesberg – Degerloch) was the first line to run in double traction in 1993 . The previous external bus line A to the airport was discontinued due to the expansion of the S-Bahn. After the opening of the Degerloch bus station, most Filder intercity bus routes now end at the edge of the kettle instead of at the main station. Due to the complete integration of all public transport lines in Stuttgart and the neighboring districts in the VVS, the previous network level II for season ticket holders was dropped in 1993. In 1993, a special tram line from Cannstatter Wasen (Neckar Stadium Loop) to the exhibition grounds at Rosensteinpark was operated for the IGA 1993 in Stuttgart . For this purpose, a loop was built in the Rosenstein Park, which was then dismantled again.

In 1994 the Stadtbahn (lines U4 and U9) reached Botnang, but the Untertürkheim – Obertürkheim section fell victim to the expansion of line 4.

In the autumn of 1997, line 13 was switched to light rail operation, initially from Feuerbach to Schlotterbeckstrasse in Untertürkheim, followed six months later by the remaining route to Hedelfingen.

After the opening of the Waldau tunnel in 1998, the U7 tram no longer ran from Killesberg to Degerloch, but to the Ruhbank stop (television tower). 1999 saw the arrival of the next generation of light rail vehicles with the DT 8.10. In the same year, the Mühlhausen – Neckargröningen (U14) and Ruhbank – Heumaden (U7) sections were opened. Line 15 only went to Ruhbank instead of Heumaden.

A year later, in autumn 2000, the Filder line between Heumaden and Nellingen went into operation. The newly established U8 has been running from Vaihingen to Nellingen via the Weinsteige – Waldau triangle, which was previously only used for operational purposes.

In 2002, the U2 line was opened in two sections between Hölderlinplatz and the main cemetery, and as a result the use of non-modernized GT4 railcars officially ended.

Since 2003, companies in the immediate vicinity of a stop have been able to purchase a promotional name affix at this stop. The company name is put in brackets after the stop name. It appears on the stop signs and in the announcements, but not in timetables, route network maps and the information devices in the vehicles. In 2017, around 50 bus and light rail stops were given a name suffix.

In 2005 the main cemetery – Neugereut (U2) and Freiberg – Mönchfeld (U5) route were extended. With the delivery of the last light rail vehicles for the time being (type DT 8.11), 164 light rail vehicles are in the possession of the SSB. In addition, the line number and train destination displays on light rail vehicles and buses have been switched from conveyor belts to LED displays.

On December 8, 2007, the tram era in Stuttgart ended with the conversion of line 15 to light rail operation.

On December 12, 2010, a route swap between U2 and U4 took place. The U2 now serves the section from Berliner Platz (Hohe Straße) to Botnang and the U4 the section from Berliner Platz (Hohe Straße) to Hölderlinplatz. At the same time, the U6 line was extended from Möhringer Bahnhof to the Fasanenhof Ost industrial park, the new U12 was put into operation and the northern branches of the U5 and U7 lines swapped. The U5 now ends at Killesberg and instead the U7 runs to Mönchfeld. The new U12 line, which runs between Killesberg and Vaihingen, fills the gap between the U5 and the U5, which only runs every 20 minutes, and compensates for the lack of journeys made by the earlier U6 between Möhringen and Vaihingen.

With the timetable change on December 11, 2011, the last section of the U15 between Zuffenhausen Kelterplatz and Stammheim will go into operation.

On September 14, 2013 the new section from Löwentor to Hallschlag was opened. Since then, the U12 has been running via the Nordbahnhof to Hallschlag instead of to Killesberg. The Killesberg is currently only served by the U5 line every 20 minutes.

With Dürrlewang - Wallgraben through the large industrial area Vaihingen / Möhringen, another new line went into operation on May 13, 2016. This is served by the U12.

Economic development

With total revenues of 350 million euros, the company made a profit of 5.6 million euros in 2014. Without the one-off effects from the sale of properties, a loss of 22 million euros would have been incurred. The fare income was 224 million euros. Investments totaled around 100 million euros, of which 68 million went to the tram infrastructure and 24 million euros to buses and trains. 42 million euros were generated through grants and reimbursements. The debt was 199 million euros.

The company expects revenues of 335 million euros for 2016, including 242 million euros in fare income. This compares to 178 million euros in personnel expenses. The number of passengers is expected to increase by one percent year-on-year, and fare income by three percent, with a tariff increase of two and a half percent.

A deficit of 18 to 20 million euros was expected for 2017, and up to 24 million euros per year by 2020. In return, the company receives up to 25 million euros from the Stuttgarter Versorgungs- und Verkehrsgesellschaft (SVV), in which income from the sale of EnBW shares was invested; At the end of 2015, it amounted to 741 million euros and at the end of 2017 758 million euros.

In 2017, sales rose to 325.2 million euros, 235 million of which came from fare income (3.9% more than 2016). The total profit was stated as 343.3 million euros. In contrast, there were expenses of 361.6 million euros, which led to a deficit of approx. 18.35 million euros for the financial year.

The company plans to purchase 90 buses (35 million euros) and 20 new light rail vehicles (80 million euros) between 2016 and 2019.

Old lines

Only regular lines are listed. There were still special lines (e.g. 1E, 2E, ...) that only ran during rush hour or on Sundays and public holidays.

July 1932

line	Lines of the tram
1	Fellbach - Cannstatt - Berg - Hauptbahnhof - Schloßplatz - Heslach - Vaihingen - a) Krehlstraße / - b) Rohr (only every second train)
2	Gablenberg School - Ostheim - Central Station - Schloßplatz - Leipziger Platz - Westbahnhof - Charlottenbuche (at the Birkenkopf)
3	Marienplatz - Zahnradbahnhof - Olgastraße - Schloßplatz - Central Station - Silberburgstraße - Marienplatz
4th	Untertürkheim - Gaisburg - Ostendplatz - Charlottenplatz - Wilhelmsbau - Hölderlinplatz
5	Degerloch West - Neue Weinsteige - Bopser - Schloßplatz - Central Station - Pragsattel - Zuffenhausen Rbhf.
6th	Schreiberstrasse - Rosenbergstrasse - Hegelplatz - Central Station - Schloßplatz - Tübinger Strasse - Schreiberstrasse
7th	Bopser - Wilhelmsplatz - Wilhelmsbau - Hegelplatz - Herdweg - Doggenburg
8th	set
9	set
10	Sillenbuch - Ruhbank - Alexanderstraße - Charlottenplatz - Schloßplatz - Central Station - Birkenwaldstraße - School of Applied Arts
11	set
12	Wangen - Untertürkheim - Cannstatt Rbhf. - Rosenstein Bridge - Hallschlag
13	Cannstatt Rbhf. - Rosenstein Bridge - Pragwirtshaus - Feuerbach Rbhf. - Rosenstrasse
14th	Wilhelmsbau - Hauptbahnhof / Eßlinger Straße - Berg - Wilhelma - Münster
15th	Pragwirtshaus - main station - Schloßplatz - Charlottenplatz - Heslach cable car
16	Degerloch - Bopser - Schloßplatz - Central Station - Pragwirtshaus - Feuerbach Rbhf. - Rosenstrasse
17th	set
18th	Botnang - Kräherwald (at Botnanger Sattel) - Schloßplatz - Charlottenplatz - Wagenburgstrasse - Gablenberg School
19th	set
20th	Vogelsang - Schloßstraße - Lautenschlagerstraße - Central Station - Gablenberg
21st	Leipziger Platz - Schloßplatz - Central Station - Berg - Cannstatt Rbhf. - Kursaal - Upper Brickyard
22nd	Wiesenstrasse - Cannstatt - Rosenstein Bridge - Hallschlag
23	Feuerbach Rbhf. - Because in the village / Gerlingen
24	set
25th	Schloßplatz - Neckarstrasse - Hackstrasse - Slaughterhouse - Wangen - Untertürkheim - Obertürkheim
26th	Schloßplatz - Neckarstraße - Hackstraße - Slaughterhouse - Wangen - Hedelfingen - Obertürkheim - Mettingen - Eßlingen - Obereßlingen
Cable car	Südheimer Platz - Heslach forest cemetery

line	Routing of the other tram companies in Stuttgart and Esslingen am Neckar
SFB	Stuttgart cog railway station - Alte Weinsteige - Degerloch cog railway station
SFB	Degerloch - Möhringen - Country House - Plieningen - Hohenheim
SFB	Degerloch - Möhringen - Vaihingen
SFB	Degerloch - Möhringen - Unteraichen - Leinfelden - Echterdingen
26th	Obereßlingen - Eßlingen - Mettingen - Obertürkheim ( Eßling city tram )
27	Esslingen Rbhf. - Obereßlingen ( Eßling city tram )
END	Esslingen - Nellingen - Denkendorf
END	Esslingen - Nellingen - Scharnhausen - Neuhausen
SSF	Feuerbach Rbhf. - Weil im Dorf - Weil im Dorf Rathaus / Gerlingen

line	Lines of the buses
A.	Paulinenstraße - Schloßplatz - Central Station - Berg - Cannstatt - Kursaal
P	Stöckach - Pragfriedhof - Wolframstrasse
S.	Untertürkheim - Luginsland - Fellbach
H	Degerloch - Birkach - Hohenheim
B.	Stuttgart Alter Postplatz - Südheim - Vaihingen - Mönchsbrunnen - Sindelfingen Town Hall
EF	Fellbach - Waiblingen - Stetten (- Eßlingen Town Hall)
K	Sillenbuch - Kemnat
L.	Stuttgart Alter Postplatz - Westbahnhof - Forsthaus I - Forsthaus II - Solitude - Schillerhöhe - Leonberg
M.	Stuttgart Alter Postplatz - Südheim - Schatten - Glemseck - Eltingen - Leonberg
N	Degerloch - Plieningen - Bernhausen - Sielmingen - Wolfschlugen - Nürtingen
R.	Uhlbach - Obertürkheim
U	Sillenbuch - Heumaden - Ruit - Scharnhausen
Kraftpost	Stuttgart Post Office 1 (Fürstenstrasse) - Degerloch - Möhringen - Echterdingen - Steinenbronn - Waldenbuch - Dettenhausen - Bebenhausen - Lustnau - Tübingen Post Office 1

The bus traffic was carried out by the Autoverkehrsverband Stuttgart GmbH (B, EF, K, L, M, N, R, U), the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG (A, P, S), the Städtische Filderbahn (H) and the Deutsche Reichspost .

music

The Swabian musician Wolle Kriwanek created a musical monument for her. One of his most famous songs, Stroßaboh , is about the unsuccessful attempt to catch the last train on line 5 to Stammheim (today line U15) ("I muaß dui Stroßaboh no kriaga, just dr Fenfer brengt mi hoim.").

literature

• From Asemwald to Zuffenhausen - 85 years of bus transport by Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG and its predecessor companies | 1926-2011. Team of authors Bauer / Becker / Hölscher / Knupfer, SSB AG, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811082-31 .
• Gottfried Bauer, Ulrich Theurer, Claude Jeanmaire: Stuttgart trams . Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen / Switzerland 1976, ISBN 3-85649-026-4 .
• Gottfried Bauer, Ulrich Theurer, Claude Jeanmaire: The vehicles of the Stuttgart trams . Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen / Switzerland 1979, ISBN 3-85649-033-7 .
• Gottfried Bauer, Ulrich Theurer, Claude Jeanmaire: Trams around Stuttgart . Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen / Switzerland 1984, ISBN 3-85649-047-7 .
• Nikolaus Niederich: Urban Development and Local Transport. Stuttgart and its trams from 1868 to 1918 . Publications of the Archives of the City of Stuttgart, Volume 79. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-608-91995-3 .
• Gottfried Bauer, Ulrich Theurer: From the tram to the Stuttgart city railway 1975–2000 . Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-00-006615-2 .
• Gottfried Bauer: Trams in Stuttgart . Verlag Geramond, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7654-7188-7 .
• Rolf Kern: Has someone got on, please? : an anecdotal chronicle about the trams in Stuttgart and elsewhere in the development from yesterday to today. Stuttgart: self-published, 1978.
• Hans-Joachim Knupfer: High above Heslach - The Stuttgart cable car. 75 years of technology and traffic history . Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-00-013868-4 .
• Hans-Joachim Knupfer: Yellow classic. The GT 4 - Stuttgart's tram car for five decades . Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-9811082-0-5 .
• Hans-Joachim Knupfer: The train to a beautiful view . Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-9811082-2-4 .

See also

• S-Bahn Stuttgart
• Rumpelstiltskin children's tram

Web links

Commons : Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• www.ssb-ag.de
• Official website of the Stuttgart Tram World
• Early documents and newspaper articles on Stuttgart trams in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Figures for 2017. (PDF) Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG, July 2018, accessed on April 4, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Annual Report 2017 (PDF version). (PDF) Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG, April 20, 2018, accessed on April 4, 2019 . Digital Annual Report 2017. Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG, 2018, accessed on April 4, 2019 . 
    
3. ↑ Wolfgang Schulz-Braunschmidt: The SSB are preparing for lean years . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . tape 70 , no. 149 , July 2, 2014, p. 19 ( online ).
4. ^ ^{A b} Jan-Philipp Schütze: SSB threatens a deficit of 631 million euros . In: Esslinger Zeitung . July 1, 2015, ZDB -ID 125919-2 , p. 6 .
5. ^ Jan-Philipp Schütze: SSB's financial position remains tense . In: Esslinger Zeitung . December 14, 2016, ZDB -ID 125919-2 , p. 14 ( online for a fee ).
6. ↑ More money for the SSB . In: Esslinger Zeitung . September 24, 2015, ZDB -ID 125919-2 , p. 6 .
7. ^ Line 15 - Memories of Stuttgart's last tram . In: Railway Romanticism . SWR TV, October 14, 2007, accessed on July 2, 2020
8. ↑ Stuttgart Historisch Tram: Travel times of the oldtimer lines 21 and 23 ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
9. ↑ From December 26th: Stuttgart vintage car line back in operation - historic trams back to the TV tower. (No longer available online.) Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG, December 15, 2017, archived from the original on December 16, 2017 ; accessed on December 16, 2017 . 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.  
10. ↑ ^{a b} timetable change at SSB on December 9th. Press release of the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG from November 27, 2018.
11. ↑ Josef Schunder: No space for another hydrogen filling station? In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . September 28, 2018, accessed September 24, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Two million kilometers driven . In: Esslinger Zeitung . February 10, 2016, ZDB -ID 125919-2 , p. 6 .
13. ↑ Wolfgang Schulz-Braunschmidt: SSB hybrid buses refuel even when braking. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . September 11, 2015, accessed August 9, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Josef Schunder: You should know that about the new express bus line. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . October 18, 2018, accessed August 9, 2019 . 
15. ↑ on-demand fleet: moovel Group and SSB AG are planning additional mobility offers for Stuttgart's local transport. Press release. moovel Group, December 12, 2017, accessed on March 2, 2020 . 
16. ↑ Sebastian Gall: Flexible travel with the Flex-Bus. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . November 7, 2018, accessed March 2, 2020 . 
17. ↑ The new SSB Flex mobility service starts on June 1st, 2018 in Stuttgart. Press release. Stuttgart trams, May 30, 2018, accessed on March 2, 2020 . 
18. ↑ Konstantin Schwarz: How does SSB-Flex work in Stuttgart? In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . July 31, 2019, accessed March 2, 2020 . 
19. ↑ SSB Flex at rush hour in the Vaihingen Synergy Park. Press release. Stuttgart trams, December 3, 2019, accessed on March 3, 2020 . 
20. ↑ History of the END on www.end-verkehr.de ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
21. ↑ Gottfried Bauer: From the horse-drawn tram to the city and S-Bahn - local public transport in the west of Stuttgart. In: Hansmartin Bruckmann (Ed.): From the early days to the present - contributions to the west of Stuttgart. Chronik-Verlag Frank-Michael Bräuchle, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-925110-00-3 .
22. ↑ Ronald Kiebler: The future should belong to the trolleybus.
23. ^ Dorothee Roth: KVV voice. ka-news , December 7, 2005, accessed November 11, 2011 . 
24. ^ Frank Rothfuss: The Voice of Stuttgart. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . August 21, 2009, archived from the original on June 21, 2010 ; Retrieved November 11, 2011 . 
25. ↑ New at the Pragsattel: The stop advertises Mercedes-Benz Bank. (No longer available online.) City of Stuttgart, June 29, 2017, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 29, 2017 .  ( 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.    
26. ↑ ^{a b} Elke Hauptmann: SSB are investing 149 million euros . In: Esslinger Zeitung . December 2, 2015, ZDB -ID 125919-2 , p. 6 ( online for a fee ).
27. ↑ Konstantin Schwarz: SSB go deeper into the red . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . tape 72 , December 14, 2016, p. 20 ( online under a similar title ).

Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '26 "  N , 9 ° 7' 49"  E