Transports publics de la region Lausanne
| Transports publics de la region Lausanne | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Renens |
| Web presence | www.tl.ch |
| Reference year | 2008 |
| owner | 67% City of Lausanne and partner municipalities 26% Canton of Vaud 4% Banque Cantonale Vaudoise 3% private shareholders |
| Board |
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| Operations management | Michel Joye |
| Transport network | Vaud tariff association (Mobilis) |
| Employee | 976 |
| sales | 182.65 million CHF |
| Lines | |
| Gauge | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Subway | 1 |
| Light rail | 1 |
| bus | 18th |
| Other lines | 10 trolleybus routes 6 regional bus routes 6 pajama lines 11 taxi bus routes |
| number of vehicles | |
| Subway car | 15th |
| Light rail car | 17th |
| buses | 46 solo buses 55 articulated buses |
| other vehicles | 58 solo trolleybuses 35 articulated trolleybuses 53 trailers |
| statistics | |
| Passengers | 77.041 million per year |
| Residents in the catchment area |
0.269 million |
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The Transports publics de la région lausannoise , abbreviated TL or tl , ( German public transport of the Lausanne region ) are a local transport company in the Swiss city of Lausanne and in 38 neighboring agglomeration communities . The registered name of the company is Transports publics de la Région Lausannoise SA The TL operates the Lausanne trolleybus with ten lines, 22 bus lines , one light rail line and one metro line . All lines together have a total length of 224.3 kilometers (as of 2005). Over 77 million passengers are carried annually.
The company is 67 percent owned by the city of Lausanne and the metropolitan areas with traffic , 26 percent by the canton of Vaud , four percent by Banque Cantonale Vaudoise and three percent by private shareholders. Up until 2012 there were two other companies whose operations were with TL: TSOL, société du tramway du sud-ouest lausannois SA , owned the light rail line and belonged to 60% to the canton and 40% to the four neighboring communities. The Métro Lausanne-Ouchy SA belonged entirely to the city of Lausanne and was the owner of the M2 line. In 2012, TL took over the two companies through an absorption merger.
Light rail
The "Métro Ouest" is a standard gauge light rail . It leads from the Flon station in the city center of Lausanne westwards to Ecublens and Chavannes-près-Renens ; the site of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the Université de Lausanne will also be developed. The train then runs north to Renens station of the SBB .
The route is 7.8 kilometers long and completely separated from other traffic. It is single-track with diversions at almost all intermediate stations. At peak times there is a 5-minute cycle. The Flon, Vigie and Malley stations are located in the tunnel. At Flon you can change to Chemin de fer Lausanne-Echallens-Bercher . The vehicles come from Vevey Technologies SA , which is now part of the Bombardier Group , and were the model for the construction of the Bem 550 twin- powered rail car for the Swiss Federal Railways .
Trolleybus
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The trolleybuses are the most important means of transport in the city in terms of traffic volume. Almost all of the lines cross at Place Saint-François on the southern edge of the old town. They not only open up all parts of Lausanne, but also the suburbs of Lutry , Paudex , Prilly , Pully and Renens . The fleet consists of vehicles from the manufacturers Carrosserie Hess , FBW or NAW and Rochat-Lauber . Articulated cars were introduced late; Many trolleybuses with trailers still operate today .
Bus
The bus routes operated by vehicles with combustion engines (CNG and diesel) are primarily used for fine distribution in the outer city districts, in the suburbs and in the rural surroundings of the agglomeration. The vehicles come from Van Hool , Solaris , Neoplan and MAN . The MAN buses are double-decker .
history
The first tram lines of the Tramways Lausannois (TL) went into operation on September 1, 1896. Five electrically operated lines with a length of eleven kilometers and a track width of 1000 millimeters were opened. They all started at the central Place Saint-François and led to Lausanne train station, the Lausanne-Echallens-Bercher-Bahn (LEB) train station in Lausanne-Chauderon, to Lutry and Chailly. The line to the Pontaise was only opened on September 25th. It had a maximum gradient of 11.3% and was only allowed to be driven on with cars that were equipped with particularly powerful brakes.
In 1898 the Chailly line was extended to La Rosiaz; at the same time a new line to the hospital went into operation. In 1899 the Chauderon Line was extended to Prilly . After a short extension in Lutry, the route network had a length of 14.3 kilometers in 1900. In 1902 the Régionaux électriques du Jorat (REJ) built an overland line over 27 kilometers long from Lausanne to Moudon , with a branch to Savigny .
The Tramways Lausannois continuously expanded its route network: in 1903 it opened three lines to Ouchy , Montoie and Renens , in 1906 a connection between Lausanne CFF and Chauderon and an overland line to Cugy , which was extended to Montheron the following year . With the opening of the line to Bergières in 1909, the route network reached a length of around 34 kilometers.
On November 1, 1910, the Tramways Lausannois took over what was then Régionaux du Jorat (REJ) with the overland tram route to Moudon , making the length of all routes 62 kilometers. The last major expansion took place in 1912 with a line to the port of Pully . In 1930 and 1933 there were two more short extensions. With a length of 66 kilometers, the network reached its greatest extent, making it longer than, for example, in Basel or Zurich .
The decline began in 1938 with the gradual changeover to trolleybus operation when the lines to Ouchy and Pully were shut down. The overland line to Montheron was discontinued in 1950. In January 1961, the lines to Prilly and Lutry were switched to bus service. The gradual closure of the lines to Moudon and Savigny took place in 1962 and 1963. Operation on the last remaining route (Renens - Saint-François - La Rosiaz) was stopped on January 6, 1964. At the same time, the company was given its current name.
After the technical college and the university moved to the southwest of the city in the 1970s, the need for transport there also increased rapidly. In 1983 a first study was published that proposed the construction of a light rail between the city center and Renens station . Construction work began in spring 1988. The “ Tramway du sud-ouest lausannois ” was opened on June 2, 1991. When the timetable changed in 2000, it was given the name “M1” and was renamed “Métro Ouest”.
The Métro Lausanne-Ouchy (LO) received at the same time the line designation "M2". It ran for the last time on January 22, 2006, was converted into a rack -and- pinion -free subway line with rubber- tired , automated, driverless vehicles and extended to Epalinges ; The Lausanne Métro went into operation on September 18, 2008.
On September 16, 2011, TL received the concession for a t1 tram line between Lausanne-Flon and Renens station . The line will run north of the m1 light rail and north of the Lausanne – Rennes railway line. Another extension in a north-westerly direction to Croix-Péage is planned.
See also
literature
- Michel Grandguillaume, Jacques Jotterand, Yves Merminod, Jean Paillard, Jean-Louis Rochaix, Pierre Stauffer and Jean Thuillard: Les Tramways Lausannois 1896-1964 . Bureau vaudois d'adresses (BAV) - Lausanne 1993
- Valérie Morel Genou: L'entreprise des transports publics de la région lausannoise - 150 ans d'histoire . Transports publics de la Région Lausannoise SA, Lausanne December 1999 (French).
- Jean-Philippe Coppex: The Swiss overland trolleybuses . End stop Ostring, Geneva 2008, ISBN 978-3-9522545-3-0 .
- Aug. Homely: Les tramways lausannois . In: Bulletin technique de la Suisse romande . tape 33 , 1907, pp. 1-7 , doi : 10.5169 / SEALS-26214 .
Web links
- Website of the Transports publics de la région Lausannoise
- ForumFR about the canton of Vaud - many historical pictures of public transport in the city of Lausanne
Individual evidence
- ↑ Useful addresses. Retrieved September 3, 2009 .
- ↑ Chiffres clés. Retrieved September 3, 2009 (French).
- ↑ organizational charts. Retrieved September 3, 2009 (French).
- ↑ Director. Retrieved September 3, 2009 (French).
- ^ Infrastructure. Retrieved September 3, 2009 (French).
- ^ Transports publics de la Région Lausannoise SA in the commercial register of the canton of Vaud. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 3, 2009 (French). ( 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.
- ^ Les trois sociétés. Retrieved September 3, 2009 (French).
- ^ TSOL, société du tramway du sud-ouest lausannois SA in the commercial register of the canton of Vaud. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 5, 2009 (French). ( 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.
- ^ Métro Lausanne-Ouchy SA in the commercial register of the canton of Vaud. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 5, 2009 (French). ( 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.
- ↑ Aug. Homely: Les tramways lausannois . 1907, doi : 10.5169 / SEALS-26214 .
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: TU directory of the Federal Office of Transport, license no. 5146 ( 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.
