Rhein-Ruhr transport association

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Verkehrsverbund-Rhein Ruhr AöR

logo
legal form Institute of public right
founding 1980
Seat Essen , Gelsenkirchen
management
  • Ronald RF Lünser (Speaker)
  • José Luis Castrillo
Branch Transport network
Website www.vrr.de

Niederlande Belgien Niedersachsen Rheinland-Pfalz Hessen Essen Wuppertal Solingen Remscheid Hagen Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis Bochum Dortmund Herne Gelsenkirchen Bottrop Oberhausen Mülheim an der Ruhr Duisburg Kreis Mettmann Düsseldorf Rhein-Kreis Neuss Kreis Heinsberg Mönchengladbach Krefeld Kreis Viersen Kreis Wesel Kreis Kleve Rhein-Erft-Kreis Kreis Düren Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis Oberbergischer Kreis Kreis Recklinghausen Kreis Borken Kreis Unna Märkischer Kreis Kreis Olpe Hamm Kreis Soest Kreis Coesfeld Kreis Steinfurt Kreis Warendorf Leverkusen Köln Städteregion Aachen Bonn Rhein-Sieg-Kreis Städteregion Aachen Kreis Euskirchen Münster Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein Hochsauerlandkreis Kreis Paderborn Kreis Gütersloh Kreis Höxter Kreis Lippe Kreis Herford Kreis Minden-Lübbecke Bielefeld
Location of the "VRR AöR" in North Rhine-Westphalia, of which light red is the area of ​​the " NVN " and dark red is the area of ​​the "ZV VRR"
S-Bahn train of the class 422 in the new, company-neutral VRR design in Dortmund Hbf

The Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr ( VRR ) is a transport association and regional rail transport authority in North Rhine-Westphalia . Its area includes the Ruhr area , the Lower Rhine , parts of the Bergisches Land and the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital Düsseldorf . The VRR borders in the north and east on the Westfalentarif (WT), in the south on the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS) and the Aachener Verkehrsverbund (AVV) and in the west on the Netherlands . According to its own information, the VRR is the most populous transport association and largest urban area in Europe.

organization

The "Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr AöR (VRR AöR)" is an institution under public law based in Essen . The sponsors are two regional authorities, namely the “ Nahverkehrs-Zweckverband Niederrhein (NVN)” and the “Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr”. These special-purpose associations are in turn supported by the respective districts and independent cities. The administration of the VRR is located in Gelsenkirchen .

The main areas of responsibility are:

  • Responsible for the local rail transport - derived from the public transport law of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Ensuring an integrated public transport (tariff, offer, quality ..) - derived from the Public Transport Act North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Financing of public transport - was transferred to the VRR by the municipal authorities
  • Approval of public transport investment subsidies according to §§ 12 and 13 Public Transport Act NRW

The Digitalization Competence Center (KCD) and Security Competence Center (KCS) are located at the VRR on behalf of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

The VRR has a 14.68% stake in VDV eTicket Service GmbH & Co. KG (Cologne).

history

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The Rhein-Ruhr transport association was founded on January 1st, 1980 by the five districts and 19 independent cities as well as the municipal transport companies of the Rhine-Ruhr area and the Deutsche Bundesbahn in the legal form of a GmbH .

In the 1980s, there was a tariff system in five price levels. A joint ticket for Deutsche Bahn and municipal transport was only available for journeys up to 50 kilometers. For longer trips, it was cheap to buy a network ticket and another for the rest of the way. Around 1990, a new and complete network tariff system with price levels A, B and C was introduced in several steps, first for season tickets and later for other tickets.

In 1996, in the course of the rail reform in the area of ​​the VRR, the cooperation area 1 (Rhine-Ruhr), a special purpose association was founded. The main task of the "Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr" was to plan, organize and design local rail passenger transport (SPNV) in the region. The Zweckverband ordered the SPNV ( Regional Express , Regionalbahn and S-Bahn ) from railway companies and checked their performance. It also handles the financing of local road transport with the districts and cities and ensures a uniform tariff system throughout the association.

On September 28, 2004, the “Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr” established the “Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr AöR” and assigned it its essential tasks.

On January 1, 2008, the Niederrhein local transport association also transferred its regional rail transport authority to VRR AöR. In this area, however, the tariff of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Niederrhein was still in effect until December 31, 2011 . Since January 1, 2012, the VRR tariff has also applied there.

Operational data and transport numbers

Line network of the VRR 2014
Development of the number of passengers in the VRR since 1996

The VRR has around 4 million passengers every working day.

  • 969.8 million euros in revenue (as of 2010)
  • Subscriptions: 1.254 million (as of 2012)

Tariff system

Price tier system

The network area is divided into tariff areas . A tariff area usually includes one municipality . Smaller communities are often grouped together to form a tariff area. The very large cities of Dortmund , Düsseldorf , Duisburg , Essen and Wuppertal each consist of two tariff zones. The tariff zones are again subdivided into cells .

The price level “short distance” (K) includes three stops without changing with a maximum distance of 1.5 km.

Price level A applies to journeys within one tariff area, within the cities that consist of two tariff areas, and between two adjacent cells in adjacent tariff areas (so-called "two-cell tariff"). Based on the quality of the public transport offer, for example the availability of night services, the price level is divided into the sub-levels A1, A2 and A3.

Price level B includes a tariff area and mostly all neighboring tariff areas.

Price level C comprises two adjoining tariff areas and mostly all neighboring tariff areas.

Price category D applies to trips across the network.

In addition, there is price level KR, which, similar to price level A, applies to the area of ​​a district. However, this price level is only available with the social ticket , which only recipients of social benefits can receive.

Tickets

In addition to tickets for one trip, tickets for 4 trips and day tickets are also issued. In addition, tickets for ten journeys are only available as mobile phone or internet tickets. The day tickets are valid for any number of trips within the validity area and are available in variants for one, two, three, four or five travelers. In 2018, the classic day tickets with validity on a calendar day were replaced by more flexible 24-hour tickets. Weekly tickets have not been offered since 2006, since 2014 a 7-day ticket can be purchased online. The validity of tickets can be extended by purchasing an additional ticket, which means that you can take bicycles with you or use 1st class on trains, although restrictions apply to the latter.

The period of validity for single, quadruple and 10-person tickets is (from the time of validation)

  • for short trips: 20 minutes
  • for A: 90 minutes
  • for B: 120 minutes
  • for C: 180 minutes
  • for D: 300 minutes

The tickets are valid for one trip each, which must be completed within the given time. They do not apply to round trips or round trips.

The VRR monthly tickets are called Ticket1000 or Ticket2000 and YoungTicket . They differ in terms of portability, weekend validity, guarantee of transport, etc. The YoungTicket is a monthly ticket specially for trainees.

The SchokoTicket is a ticket for the Rhein-Ruhr transport association for all students under the age of 25. It is valid in the entire VRR area. It is valid all year round for all VRR means of transport ( only 2nd class on SPNV trains ). In 2003 the SchokoTicket replaced the SCHOOLTicket.

For students at participating universities, there is a semester ticket that is automatically acquired by paying the social contribution at the beginning of a semester. Like the SchokoTicket, this is only valid in 2nd carriage class and, like the SchokoTicket, can not be temporarily upgraded to a 1st class ticket by purchasing an additional ticket. Discounts provided for season ticket holders are only granted to holders of a semester ticket in AST traffic. The geographical area of ​​validity also differs from that of a conventional ticket: It is also valid without restriction in parts of the VGM area, and also in parts of the VGN, VRL and VRS areas - but only if the student's place of residence is there - this restriction also applies to the area normally accessible to VRR season ticket holders. The extent to which the SemesterTicket is valid on lines operated by VRR tariff partners outside the network area is not clearly regulated.

Seniors aged 60 and over can purchase the so-called BärenTicket , which is available in price category D and entitles them to use 1st class on local trains.

Recipients of social benefits ( e.g. unemployment benefit II , social assistance , housing benefit , recipients of benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act ) can purchase the SozialTicket , which is only available in price level A or KR. In this case, the authorized persons are issued an authorization card by the social service provider. This can then be used to purchase the social ticket from the respective transport company.

Since 2003, VRR has only been using electronic tickets ( e-tickets ) on chip cards for its subscription customers . From 2007 to 2010, the VRR converted these e-tickets to the Germany-wide standard VDV core application . In this context, the VRR eTicket Germany joined.

Extract from the price table (2019): prices in euros; As of January 1, 2019

Name of the ticket Short haul Price level A Price level B Price level C Price level D
Single ticket adults 1.70 2.80 / 2.90 * 6.00 12.80 15.70
Single ticket children (up to and including 14 years) 1.70 1.70 1.70 1.70 1.70
4-person ticket adults 6.10 10.50 22.00 45.70 55.60
4-ticket children (up to and including 14 years) 6.10 6.10 6.10 6.10 6.10
10erTicket (adults and children) 14.00 22.60 45.30 91.60 102.90
24-hour ticket (adults and children) - 7.10 14.50 24.90 29.90
24-hour ticket price for each additional person taken - 3.40 3.90 4.60 5.30
48-hour ticket (adults and children) - 13.50 27.60 47.30 56.80
48-hour ticket price for each additional person taken 1 - 6.40 / 6.50 7.40 8.70 / 8.80 10.00 / 10.10

* = The price of price level A depends on the size of the city. Price level A1 applies in smaller cities, price level A2 in larger cities and price level A3 in large cities.

Price single ticket adults: price level A1 and A2: 2.80 €, price level A3: 2.90 €.

Price changes were made on January 1, 2015. The “10erTicket”, which was introduced on January 1, 2014, is only available as a HandyTicket or for purchase in the digital ticket shop.

1 different amount of increase at the individual increase levels

Non-VRR areas with application of the VRR tariff

Aachen Transport Association :
  • District of Heinsberg
Transport Community Münsterland : Transport Community Ruhr-Lippe : Netherlands:
  1. ↑ a b c only in the transition from the VRR
  2. ↑ a b c only SemesterTicket and transitional regulation "Südkreis Borken"
  3. ↑ a b c d e f if the Ruhr-Lippe tariff is not applicable

As of February 1, 2012, the VRR tariff no longer applies to journeys from the VRR to the Dutch municipalities of Groesbeek and Mook and vice versa, as bus route 55 has been discontinued.

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Until August 1, 2008, there were only price levels A, B and C, whereby C was valid throughout the network. For monthly tickets of the previous level A, since August 1, 2008, a distinction has been made between larger (price level A2) and smaller cities (price level A1). Price level C is now no longer valid across the network, but only for two tariff zones including adjacent areas. There is also the new level D, which replaces the previous level C throughout the network. The price level A2 is assigned to Dortmund, Hagen, Herne, Bochum, Wuppertal, Remscheid, Solingen, Gelsenkirchen, Essen, Oberhausen, Mülheim (Ruhr), Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Neuss / Kaarst, Krefeld and Mönchengladbach. All other cities and municipalities in the VRR are assigned to price level A1. Since January 1, 2015, the separate season ticket price category A3 has been in effect in Bochum, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Essen and Wuppertal.

As part of the application of the VRR tariff in the Kleve and Wesel districts, price levels 1–4 of the VGN were merged into the price levels A – D of the VRR on January 1, 2012. Since then, a distinction has been made in the VRR tariff between the tariff areas “D North” (old VGN plus adjoining tariff areas) and “D South” (old VRR plus adjoining tariff areas). For trips beyond this, a new price level E has been introduced for the entire VRR area. In 2016, price level E was abolished and price level D was extended to the entire network area.

Traffic Company

The following transport companies are active in the VRR:

Others

Note on the transport contract

In mid-June 2008, the VRR prematurely terminated the contract with DB Regio for services amounting to 300 million euros. The train services provided under this major transport contract have been operated by DB Regio NRW GmbH since then on the basis of a sovereign imposition to which VRR is entitled in its capacity as an institution under public law . The DB Regio NRW GmbH, however, considered this termination and the imposition to be unlawful and took the position that the train services were to be carried out within the framework of what it believed to be a valid major transport contract. On December 19, the Gelsenkirchen Administrative Court ruled that the VRR's termination of the major transport contract was ineffective and ordered the VRR to pay the amount withheld. With the mediation of the former North Rhine-Westphalian Transport Minister Oliver Wittke (CDU), a new major transport contract was agreed in 2009. The RE lines are to go to tender by 2016, the S-Bahn 2023. However, this was overturned because of illegality by the public procurement chamber of the Münster district government . The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court also followed this legal opinion, but submitted the case to the Federal Court of Justice for decision, as the Brandenburg Higher Regional Court had issued a different judgment in 2003.

On February 8, 2011, the latter declared the contract null and void. Despite the pending contractual agreement, VRR and DB Regio introduced the new timetable concept in December 2010. Both DB Regio NRW and the VRR are now looking for a new agreement that is within the scope of what the Federal Court of Justice considers permissible. According to VRR boss Martin Husmann, there are “four to six adjusting screws”. Transport Minister Harry Voigtsberger (SPD) is also striving for a quick new regulation.

Timetable areas and line numbers

When it was founded, the VRR area was divided into a total of ten timetable areas, which was taken into account when assigning route numbers. This system is still largely used today, but has been watered down by numerous special solutions (e.g. local bus routes):

Area Area or transport company
0 Krefeld, Mönchengladbach, City of Viersen; District of Viersen ( NEW MöBus , SWK , NEW VIE , BVR )
1 Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr ( Ruhrbahn )
2 Bottrop, Recklinghausen district ( Vestische trams )
3 Bochum, Herne / Castrop-Rauxel (Behringhausen, Deininghausen, Dingen, Merklinde), Gelsenkirchen, Hattingen, Witten ( BOGESTRA , HCR , DSW21 )
4th Dortmund, Castrop-Rauxel (Frohlinde, Habinghorst, Henrichenburg, Ickern) ( DSW21 )
5 Hagen, Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis (in Hattingen and Witten only emergency vehicles) ( HST , VER )
6th Wuppertal, Solingen, Remscheid ( WSW , SWS , SR )
7th Düsseldorf (light rail, tram, "normal" bus lines on the right bank of the Rhine), Mettmann district (special regulation especially for Velbert see below) ( Rheinbahn , BSM )
8th Düsseldorf (on the left bank of the Rhine, crossing the Rhine and "special" on the right bank (airport fair, racetrack, lido) bus routes and night buses), Neuss district ( SDG , Rheinbahn , SWN )
9 Duisburg, Oberhausen ( DVG , StOAG )
without code number District of Kleve, District of Wesel ( NIAG )

Normally, lines can be distinguished by their number. (X stands for the number of the timetable area and Y a line identifier assigned by the transport company.)

  • Light rail , even if they largely operate above ground, wear line numbers prefixed by 'U' in the scheme UXY (key differentiator for trams is the presence of high platforms). The Wuppertal suspension railway bears - mainly for internal purposes - the line number 60 without a preceding U.
  • Trams run on lines X0Y and X1Y, formerly also X2Y. In Dortmund and Düsseldorf, the trams that run underground are called UXY like light rail vehicles. The lines in Krefeld are numbered X4Y, as the lower part of the 0 timetable area is reserved for Mönchengladbach without a tram.
  • The remaining lines in XYY format are bus routes, although sometimes these line numbers were also assigned according to the tram numbering scheme. In the Wesel and Kleve districts, the number “X” is simply missing; there the lines have the format Y or YY or SLY or SLYY for journeys that essentially run within a municipality. The Rheinbahn also has lines according to the OY or OYY scheme, and in Velbert according to the OVY scheme. "O" or "OV" are letters preceding the one or two-digit line number. From the BVR -powered buses in the entire association area with area-dependent first digit. The originally preferred assignment of 8 or 9 as the second digit in lines of this company is no longer practiced consistently.
  • E-cars or other courses that differed from the regular route were previously marked with a so-called crossed line signal in the form of a red crossbar overlaid on the regular line number at the Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft, Essener Verkehrs-AG and Rheinbahn . This was introduced by the VRR in 1980.

The Bochum, Gelsenkirchen and Hattingen / Sprockhövel timetable books have not been published since 2012. Instead, line timetables are available free of charge from Bogestra. After considerable protests on the part of the passengers and on the instructions of local politicians, the decision to discontinue was revised: From 2013 there will be printed timetable books again.

Passenger information

The VRR offers the network members the infrastructure for integrating passenger information into their own websites. Since 2006 this information has been enriched with real-time information so that real-time timetable information is made available to passengers on the Internet. In addition to the real-time data from Deutsche Bahn, real-time data from the transport companies involved in the association and the Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft are also sent to the VRR's actual data server using the VDV454 protocol specified by the Association of German Transport Companies, a protocol for exchanging target timetables and actual data to dynamize timetable information connected and also transmitted to neighboring associations.

Trivia

Former logo from 1980 to 2010

On the occasion of its 30th anniversary in 2010, the VRR has given itself a new logo . This was introduced on March 25, 2010 and has gradually replaced the symbol that was used from 1980.

In May 2012, the VRR also had an advertising agency create a cartoon animation that is intended to bring the company's social media guidelines, i.e. the correct use of social networks on the Internet, closer to its own employees .

Since 2015 and throughout the association in 2016, the VRR city network maps have been designed on the basis of OpenStreetMap maps.

In 2017, the VRR activated an open data portal .

Job ticket

Since January 2019, the VRR has been testing a job ticket in which the employer pays part of the costs. It is cheaper for employees than the conventional Ticket2000. There are two different savings options for employers and a volume discount for companies with 30 or more subscribers.

Eight transport companies are offering this ticket and are looking for companies to participate. In NRW, STOAG Oberhausen has already managed to find a company for the job ticket.

See also

Web links

Commons : Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ VRR and Niederrhein grow together. VRR, November 25, 2011, accessed February 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Articles of Association of the "Joint Institution under Public Law" Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr AöR. Ministerialblatt for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , June 26, 2015, accessed on February 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr - active in public transport for 30 years. Bochum-Gelsenkirchener Straßenbahnen AG , accessed on February 8, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Competence center digitization. VRR, accessed September 24, 2019 .
  5. ↑ The price levels in the VRR. In: vrr.de. VRR, accessed February 8, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Social Ticket. The personal time card. In: vrr.de. VRR, accessed February 8, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Drastic price increase at VRR. taz , December 29, 2005, accessed February 8, 2017 .
  8. ↑ New tickets and prices since January 2014. VRR, January 1, 2014, accessed on February 8, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Verbund timetable for fast traffic 2003. Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr, 2003
  10. ↑ Price table 2019 (PDF) VRR, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  11. ^ Line 55. Kleve – Kranenburg. (PDF) Niederrheinische Verkehrsbetriebe, January 13, 2012, accessed on February 8, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Price adjustment in the VRR as of January 1, 2015. VRR, June 27, 2014, accessed on February 8, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Tariff harmonization is coming - transitional tariff disappears. Pro Bahn Landesverband NRW, March 17, 2011, accessed on February 8, 2017 .
  14. ↑ VRR decides on new ticket prices. Westdeutscher Rundfunk , June 19, 2015, archived from the original on October 8, 2015 ; accessed on October 5, 2015 .
  15. ↑ VRR: price level E at the end. Der Rote Renner , June 20, 2015, accessed on February 8, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Der Spiegel, June 23, 2008, p. 56
  17. ↑ Jürgen Eikelberg: Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court considers the new VRR contract to be illegal. Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de, July 21, 2010, accessed on February 8, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Niklas Luerßen: VRR: BGH overturns new transport contract. Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de, February 8, 2011, accessed on February 8, 2017 .
  19. ^ Stefan Hennigfeld: VRR: Schedule for a new RE concept. Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de, September 19, 2010, accessed on February 8, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Max Yang: VRR is looking for new conversations at short notice and sees no impact on the passengers. Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de, February 8, 2011, accessed on February 8, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Jürgen Eikelberg: VRR: Minister Voigtsberger urges new compromise. Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de, February 10, 2011, accessed on February 8, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Jürgen Eikelberg: VRR: Looking for a short-term solution with DB Regio. Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de, February 17, 2011, accessed on February 8, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Directive. The timetable books and product timetables for the Rhein-Ruhr transport association. VRR, January 31, 2013, accessed February 8, 2017 .
  24. ↑ Prospectus from Funkwerk IT. (PDF; 1.5 MB) funkwerk-it.com, December 9, 2010, archived from the original on July 11, 2011 ; accessed on February 8, 2017 .
  25. ↑ VRR - Your timetable through the social web on YouTube
  26. ↑ Welcome to the OpenData portal of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr AöR. VRR, accessed September 1, 2017 .
  27. ^ A b Oberhausen: First city uses new job ticket. April 4, 2019, accessed April 15, 2019 .