Mainz-Wiesbaden transport association

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Verkehrsverbund Mainz-Wiesbaden GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1974
Seat Mainz and Wiesbaden , Germany
Branch traffic

The Verkehrsverbund Mainz-Wiesbaden GmbH (VMW) is essentially a cooperation between the Mainzer Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG) and the Wiesbadener ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (ESWE). Other bus companies in the network area, such as Omnibusverkehr Rhein-Nahe GmbH (ORN), are also integrated into the VMW.

The transport association was founded in January 1974, the start of operations with the entry into force of the community tariff took place on May 15, 1975. On May 28, 1995, the first day of the 1995 summer timetable , the VMW was included in the newly founded Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) integrated, but in the background VMW is still responsible for coordinating the transport companies in the state capitals Mainz and Wiesbaden .

In terms of tariffs and organization, local public transport in the cities of Mainz and Wiesbaden has had a special status since the VMW was integrated into the RMV. The Hessian state capital Wiesbaden is - like the other districts and independent cities in the Hessian RMV area as well - a shareholder of the RMV, but the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital Mainz is not. However, because the local public transport of the two cities of Mainz and Wiesbaden has long been closely connected via a number of shared lines, as well as via the VMW since May 15, 1975, the city of Mainz is still associated with the RMV via the VMW. The Mainz city area in Rhineland-Palatinate and part of Zornheim were the only areas of the RMV that did not belong to the state of Hesse.

At the same time, the area of ​​the VMW is also integrated into the transitional tariff of the Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund (RNN), through this cooperation Wiesbaden is in turn associated with the RNN via the VMW. However, the RNN tariff is only used for trips between the RNN home area and the cities of Mainz and Wiesbaden (or vice versa). In purely internal traffic in the city of Mainz or the city of Wiesbaden, for journeys between Mainz and Wiesbaden (or vice versa) and for journeys between Mainz or Wiesbaden and the rest of the RMV area, the RMV tariff applies exclusively. The tickets of both associations are therefore available at all machines, sales points and in all vehicles with ticket sales within the VMW.

Since the RMV tariff applies within and between the two cities of Mainz and Wiesbaden, all VMW machines are primarily programmed by RMV. However, in order to make it possible to purchase RNN tickets, simply add the words “RNN group day ticket”, “RNN single ticket” etc. when purchasing an RNN ticket. The paper rolls for tickets of all kinds are supplied by RMV throughout the VMW, although there are minor differences between the MVG and the ESWE.

Even at the time of the Frankfurter Verkehrsverbund (FVV), monthly and annual tickets of the VMW were also available in the S-Bahn as well as the local and express trains of the Deutsche Bundesbahn between Wiesbaden Hbf and Mainz-Kastel as well as Wiesbaden Hbf and Mainz Süd (today Mainz Roman Theater ) recognized. This became obsolete with the introduction of the RMV.