Verkehrsbetriebe Westfalen-Süd
| Verkehrsbetriebe Westfalen-Süd GmbH | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Wins |
| Web presence | VWS |
| Reference year | 2012 |
| owner | RWS Regionalverkehr Westfalen-Süd |
| Transport network | Verkehrsgemeinschaft Westfalen-Süd |
| Employee | 227 |
| Lines | |
| bus | 148 |
| number of vehicles | |
| Omnibuses | 167 A total of 56 articulated buses 2 vintage buses |
| other vehicles | 3 cars 1 snow clearing vehicle |
| statistics | |
| Mileage | approx. 16.25 million km |
| Catchment area | Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Olpe district, Hochsauerland district, Märkischer district, Altenkirchen district, Lahn-Dill district |
| Operating facilities | |
| Depots | 7th |
| Other operating facilities | Bus stand in Siegen |
The transporting enterprises Westphalia south GmbH , shortly VWS , formerly transport companies Westphalia south AG is a near transport companies in the districts of Siegen-Wittgenstein and Olpe . It is a participant in the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Westfalen-Süd and has been owned by RWS Regionalverkehr Westfalen-Süd GmbH since 2012 .
history
Verkehrsbetriebe Westfalen-Süd was established on January 12, 1970, when the entire bus service of the Siegen Kreisbahn was spun off and incorporated into Kraftverkehr Olpe. At the same time the name of the company was changed accordingly. Although the Kreisbahn was the larger partner, the company remained registered in the commercial register in Olpe , but the company's headquarters were moved from Olpe to Siegen. Two thirds of the shares in the AG were the Siegener Kreisbahn, 27.67% the Olpe district and 5.67% the city of Lennestadt .
Later the share of the city of Lennestadt was transferred to the district of Olpe , so that it held a third of all shares. In the summer of 2005, both shareholders sold VWS in full to the public transport company of Stadtwerke Bonn (SWB) with retroactive effect from January 1 for 3.3 million euros . In 2005, Stadtwerke Bonn owned a change of legal form from a stock corporation to a limited liability company .
On November 19, 2008, SWB Bus und Bahn advertised VWS for sale. On February 26, 2009 it was announced that the SWB had sold VWS retrospectively to January 1, 2009 to Transdev SZ from Neuwied . In the following months, the company headquarters of Transdev SZ was gradually relocated to Siegen in the Marienhütte.
At the beginning of March 2011, the parent company Transdev merged with the French transport group Veolia Transport to form Veolia Transdev .
In July 2012 it was announced that Veolia had sold its shares in the VWS parent company Transdev SZ to the Siegen-based company Regionalverkehr Westfalen-Süd (RWS), which is part of the Wern Group. In a release contract, however, all of Transdev's subsidiaries, with the exception of VWS and the subsidiary Suerlänner, went to Veolia. The sales talks began in September 2011. It was agreed that the 227 employees could keep their jobs until 2018 thanks to a job guarantee. The contract for the current license will end in 2018.
Local transport plans
Due to the improvement in profitability, the Zweckverband Personennahverkehr Westfalen Süd created new local transport plans for the responsible districts in 2016. When the new line was created, lines were combined into packages. The packages were advertised individually.
In 2017, VWS alone acquired the concessions for the central (Siegen area), east (Wittgensteiner Land), south (Neunkirchen and Burbach), north-west (Olpe) and north-east (Lennestadt area) packages.
Depots
The main administration of Verkehrsbetriebe Westfalen-Süd is located in the Eiserfeld district of Siegen . The largest volume of vehicles is also there.
VWS maintains other operating locations in Bad Laasphe , Drolshagen , Lennestadt-Altenhundem , Netphen-Deuz , Olpe and Wilnsdorf, among others .
In the past, the company parted with the wagon hall in Hilchenbach- Dahlbruch, which was not used as such by VWS. In November 1996, the transport company took over the Schmidt bus company located there, which held the concession on today's R11 line between Kreuztal and Hilchenbach. Shortly after the takeover, the depot was closed and the property was rented out. When the timetable changed on December 22, 2003, the Buschhütten depot was closed. After the takeover of VWS by SWB, the Büschergrund depot near Freudenberg was closed in April 2006. Vehicles and drivers are now on duty from Siegen, and occasionally drivers have been transferred to other offices on request.
The car shed in Kreuztal-Krombach has now been leased to Kraftverkehr Alchetal , which also drives on behalf of VWS.
Lines
Line styles
The VWS lines differ as follows:
| Line style | Traffic area | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Training line | all localities | serves to transport students |
| City line | inner city | serves the inner-city development |
| Local line | Neighboring places | serves to develop cities and municipalities and establishes the connection to the regional public transport and local rail transport |
| Regional line | Neighboring commune | serves to develop space and to connect cities and municipalities |
| Uniexpress line | inner city | enables fast traffic to the University of Siegen |
| Express bus line | Neighboring cities | serves the fast connection between cities and municipalities, stops only at certain stops |
| Taxi bus | all localities | only runs on reservation at times of low demand |
| Night bus line | Neighboring cities | runs only on the nights from Friday to Saturday and Saturday to Sunday |
| Magolves Line | Siegen ZOB - Leimbachstadion | drives to the stadium at home games of Sportfreunde Siegen |
All of the line types listed are only served by VWS and its contractors. The line type does not necessarily indicate the size of the vehicle. So wrong z. B. on the T 164 (taxi bus) at times of increased demand in school traffic, a 12-meter regular bus that does not have to be booked in advance. But this is the exception. There are also T-lines that minibuses run on. These are marked as KB in the timetable and do not have to be ordered in advance.
The VWS drives in the area of the Zweckverband Westfalen Süd (ZWS), which acts as the responsible body, and belongs to the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Westfalen-Süd.
Vehicle fleet
VWS uses articulated buses from MAN and Mercedes-Benz as well as solo buses from MAN, Mercedes-Benz and Iveco in its regular service . The current fleet looks like this:
| Manufacturer | Type | Construction year | number | Vehicle number of the operator | Specialty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAN | Lion's City 18C | 2019 | 3 | 432-434 | |
| Lion's City | 2008 | 9 | 211-219 | ||
| 2016 | 6th | 387-391, 393 | Bus train , car 392 burned out on the A45 in 2019 | ||
| 2018 | 16 | 406-415, 426-431 | |||
| 2019 | 7th | 419-425 | Bus train | ||
| Lion's City G. | 2008 | 3 | 208-210 | ||
| Mercedes Benz | O 530 (Citaro) | 2005 | 10 | 185-194 | |
| O 530 (Citaro Facelift) | 2006 | 7th | 195-202 | ||
| 2009 | 10 | 220-229 | |||
| O 530 G (Citaro Facelift G) | 2006 | 3 | 203-205 | ||
| 2009 | 3 | 230-232 | |||
| 2010 | 10 | 1009, 1011-1019 | |||
| 2013 | 7th | 329-336 | |||
| Citaro 2 G | 2015 | 7th | 372-378 | ||
| Iveco | Crossway LE | 2019 | 3 | 416-418 |
In addition to the vehicles listed here, there are also numerous vehicles from other Wern companies and contractors.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b VWS prevails in Europe-wide tender. VWS Siegen, accessed on March 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Announcement in TED, the 'Tenders Electronic Daily' of the European Union
- ↑ track info: SWB sell VWS
- ↑ Wern buys Transdev, ÖPNV aktuell ( 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. , accessed July 10, 2012
- ^ Siegener Zeitung of July 10, 2012 , accessed on July 10, 2012
- ↑ The WERNGroup invests in environmentally friendly technology. VWS Siegen, accessed on April 20, 2020 .
- ↑ VWS purchases 7 new bus trains. VWS Siegen, accessed on March 16, 2020 .
- ↑ DerWesten- derwesten.de: The bus is ablaze on the A45: the driver saved himself from the inferno. February 6, 2019, accessed March 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Another ten new vehicles. VWS Siegen, accessed on March 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Seven new buses for VWS. VWS Siegen, accessed on March 16, 2020 .
