VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg

VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg
Basic information
Company headquarters	Nuremberg
Web presence	www.vag.de
Reference year	2015
owner	Municipal Works Nuremberg
Board	Josef Hasler (chairman), Tim Dahlmann-Resing (technology and operations), Magdalena Weigel (personnel and social issues)
Supervisory board	Christian Vogel (Chairman), Rainer Lehnemann (Deputy)
Transport network	VGN
Employee	1748
sales	€ 149 million
Lines
Gauge	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Subway	3
tram	5
bus	71
Other lines	Bike rental
number of vehicles
Subway car	100 (DT1, DT2, DT3, DT3-F)
Tram cars	49 (1 N8-NF, 14 GT6N, 26 GT8N, 8 GTV6)
Omnibuses	280 (from EvoBus, MAN, Neoplan and Solaris)
other vehicles	1,500 wheels
statistics
Passengers	152 million per year
Stops	48 subway 74 tram 947 bus
Catchment area	330 km²
Residents in the catchment area	0.832 million
Length of line network
Subway lines	39 km
Tram lines	38.4 km
Bus routes	679 km
Operating facilities
Depots	3

The VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg is a subsidiary of Städtische Werke Nürnberg , in turn, a proper operation of the city of Nuremberg are. It emerged in 1959 from the earlier Städtische Werke Nürnberg - Verkehrsbetriebe, which until then was responsible for the transport network in the cities of Nuremberg, Fürth and Erlangen .

Today, VAG supplies local public transport in Nuremberg with trams, buses and underground trains . It is a member of the Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg (VGN), therefore all lines operated by VAG are subject to the VGN network tariff. Since 2004, VAG has been training students to become cool riders together with the police.

history

Nuremberg-Fürth Tram Company

→ Main article : Nuremberg-Fürth tram

On April 12, 1881, the Bremen merchant Heinrich Alfes received a 40-year concession to build and operate a horse-drawn railway in Nuremberg and Fürth. The first line was opened on August 25, 1881 on the line between the Staatsbahnhof (now the main train station ) - Lorenzkirche - Plärrer - Bauerngasse. The "Nürnberg-Fürther Straßenbahn-Gesellschaft" was initially privately owned by the founding consortium, but was converted into a stock corporation on January 16, 1883 due to the concession . By June 1, 1882, the planned basic horse-drawn tram network was implemented and the first regular timetable was introduced. Between 1896 and 1898, electrical operations were gradually set up.

Nuremberg-Fürth tram

On June 6, 1903, after a lengthy legal dispute over the construction of new routes, the private law “Nürnberg-Fürther Straßenbahn-Gesellschaft” finally became the property of the city of Nuremberg. The city of Nuremberg managed the tram operation under its own management under the name "Nürnberg-Fürth tram" . The takeover of the tram operation by the city of Nuremberg finally led to a massive expansion of the route network in the subsequent period up to 1914. By the outbreak of the First World War , the Nuremberg-Fürth tram had achieved its basic structure, which it was only to change insignificantly until the subway into Nuremberg's old town opened in 1978. On January 15, 1923, the new bus and coach branch was set up to supplement tram operations .

Municipal Works Nuremberg, Tram Department

On April 1, 1934, the commercial administration of all municipal plants was brought together under one commercial director. Since then, the "Nürnberg-Fürther tram" has also been known as the "Städtische Werke Nürnberg, tram department" . On the vehicles and in the timetables, however, the designation "Nürnberg-Fürth tram" was used unchanged.

Works and railways of the city of the Nuremberg Rally, tram

After a further organizational redesign, the company was finally renamed "Works and Railways of the City of the Nuremberg Rally, Tram" from February 6, 1939 . Until March 31, 1942, technical supervision lay with the Reich Plenipotentiary for Railway Supervision under the direction of the Reich Railway Directorate in Nuremberg ;

Works and railways of the city of Nuremberg, tram

After the end of the Second World War , the company was renamed "Works and Railways of the City of Nuremberg, Tram" .

Municipal Works Nuremberg - Transport Company

On December 1, 1945, the name was changed to "Städtische Werke Nürnberg - Verkehrsbetriebe" . But for the tram system, as well as in all publications and on the vehicles, the designation “Nürnberg-Fürth tram” was still used.

VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft

The transport companies previously belonging to the Städtische Werken Nürnberg were transferred on December 28, 1959, retrospectively to January 1, 1959, through the transfer of the assets to the "VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft", which is separate from the other plants. Städtischen Werke Nürnberg GmbH ”. This was preceded by the city council resolution of December 17, 1958, to divide the operation, which had previously been called “Städtische Werke Nürnberg - Verkehrsbetriebe”, into three independent companies. The designation "Nürnberg-Fürther Straßenbahn" was used on the trams until the tram operation was discontinued in Fürth and in 1981, after which the words " VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg" were also affixed to the trams , and that was already the case with the buses the case since 1959.

On November 29, 1968, a traffic management contract was signed with the Erlanger Stadtwerke (ESTW), so that bus operations were carried out by VAG on behalf of ESTW until 2012. ESTW Stadtverkehr GmbH has been running Erlangen's city traffic independently since 2013. The city of Fürth had acquired its own concession to operate tram and bus routes in the form of "Stadtwerke Fürth - Verkehrsbetriebe" on January 1, 1969, and gradually took over the bus routes in its city area from VAG. The tram network continued to be operated by VAG until it was discontinued on June 20, 1981.

Companies

capital

The share capital of the newly founded VAG was 3.1 million DM (1.55 million €), increased to 25 million DM (12.5 million €) on December 17, 1959 and to 75 million on April 6, 1981 DM (37.5 million €) increased and today (as of 2007) amounts to 38.4 million €.

structure

On July 1, 2005, VAG was restructured into a holding company with seven business areas and four subsidiaries:

• Business areas: ticket management, planning and customer affairs, control of operations, drivers and service, route, bus workshop and rail vehicle workshop
• Subsidiaries: Bus Nürnberg GmbH, Stadtbus Fürth GmbH, Erlanger Stadtbus GmbH and Eisenbahnverkehr Nürnberg GmbH

people

Board of Directors : Josef Hasler (Chairman), Tim Dahlmann-Resing (Technology and Marketing), Magdalena Weigel (Human Resources and Social Affairs)

Former chairmen : Josef Ipfelkofer, Fritz Vogel, Wilhelm Deinzer (until 1982), Lothar Netter (until 1992), Wolfgang Krug (until 1997), Herbert Dombrowsky (until 2010),

Technical director : Tim Dahlmann-Resing (since 2016)
Former technical director : Wilhelm Petersen (until 1965), Wilhelm Wacker (until 1970), Heinrich Dillmann (until 1986), Wolfgang Krug (until 1992), Rainer Müller (until 2012), Michael Richarz (2012-2016),

Projects

Since 2004, VAG has been training students to become coolriders together with the police.

Means of transport

Nuremberg rail network

bus

→ Main articles : City bus Nuremberg  and NightLiner Nuremberg

The 51 city bus routes serve almost all parts of the city and some extend as far as Fürth, Erlangen or Schwabach . The individual lines usually take on feeder functions to the underground, S-Bahn and trams.

On the nights from Friday to Saturday and Saturday to Sunday, as well as on public holidays, a night bus service is offered with the NightLiner . The network is structured in a star shape with Nuremberg Central Station as the starting point and covers the Nuremberg city area as well as the most important leisure facilities. There are a total of 24 lines, 16 of which are operated by VAG, which also go to Fürth, Erlangen and the district of Nürnberger Land .

Tram network Nuremberg

tram

Nuremberg underground network as a line

→ Main articles : Nuremberg tram  and Nuremberg-Fürth tram

The five lines of the Nuremberg tram run on a network of 38.4 km in length. They connect the Nuremberg districts of Thon , Erlenstegen , Mögeldorf , Dutzendteich , Falkenheim , Gibitzenhof , Gartenstadt and St. Johannis to the city center as well as to the subway at Plärrer and the main station . The history of the tram can be traced in the historic St. Peter tram depot .

Subway

→ Main article: Nuremberg subway

The underground network is 37.1 km long and consists of three lines: the U1 line connects Langwasser in the south of Nuremberg with Fürth, the U2 line runs from Röthenbach in the south-west to the airport in the north of Nuremberg, and the U3 line branches off from the U2 the districts Sündersbühl in the west and gardens behind the fortress in the north. All three lines cross at the main station and at the Plärrer. The U11 and U21 lines operated as clock amplifiers until May 2017, but in contrast to the main lines on shortened routes. These earlier amplifiers (U11, U21) are still used to this day to shorten the cycle between the trade fair and Eberhardshof. However, for the purpose of standardization, they are also called U1 and U2. Since the opening of the new Klinikum Nord and Nordwestring stops, the U1 and U2 lines have been operating as clock amplifiers with shorter journeys.

VAG_Rad

Since June 2019, VAG has been operating its own bike rental system under the name VAG_Rad as the successor to the previous Norisbike rental system . At the beginning, this had 20 fixed stations in the city as well as a so-called flex zone, in which bikes can be rented and returned without a fixed station. The flex zone initially comprised the districts Bärenschanze , Bielingplatz , gardens behind the fortress , Gostenhof , Himpfelshof , Maxfeld , Pirckheimerstraße , Sandberg , St. Johannis , St. Lorenz , St. Sebald and Tafelhof . The number of initially 300 eight-speed bikes was increased to 500 in the summer of the same year. The stations are located at important public transport transfer points or popular excursion destinations such as the zoo or Lake Wöhrder . The costs are five cents per minute, while VAG subscription customers have 600 free minutes a month. Since June 9, 2020, the system has 32 fixed stations and a flex zone that extends over the entire inner city area within the ring . With this expansion, the number of wheels was increased by 1,000 to a total of 1,500 vehicles.

Web links

• VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg (official website)
• VAG_Rad (website of the bike rental system)
• Municipal Works Nuremberg
• Coolrider

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.coolrider.de
2. ↑ Stefan Scherer: The VAG for the 500th In: Friends of the Nürnberg-Fürther Straßenbahn e. V. (Ed.): The Straßaboh . No. 2, 2001, pp. 19-26.
3. ↑ VAG Nuremberg: Annual Report 2007  ( 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.   . P. 19.
4. ^ VAG Nuremberg: Information on the 2005 financial year ( Memento of the original dated September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . P. 6.
5. ↑ http://www.nordbayern.de/region/nuernberg/vag-baut-vorstand-um-technik-chef-muss-iegen-1.5071039
6. ↑ VAG launches its own bicycle rental system in Nuremberg on marktspiegel.de, from June 6, 2019, accessed on June 10, 2020
7. ↑ New flex zone and 1,500 bikes on vagrad.de, June 9, 2020, accessed on June 10, 2020
8. ↑ One year VAG_Rad: More bikes, more stations, larger flex zone on nordbayern.de, from June 9, 2019, accessed on June 10, 2020