Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg

Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	September 1, 1987
Seat	Cologne , Germany
management	Michael Vogel, Norbert Reinkober
Branch	Transport association , public transport
Website	www.vrs.de

Location of the VRS in North Rhine-Westphalia

The Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg ( VRS ) is the transport association and regional rail transport authority for the Cologne / Bonn region in North Rhine-Westphalia . In 2019, 556 million passengers were carried in the connection area.

The VRS borders on the Rhine-Ruhr transport association in the north, the Westphalian tariff in the east, the Rhine-Mosel transport association and the Trier transport association in the south , and the Aachen transport association in the west . Together with the latter, the VRS forms the Rhineland Local Transport Authority (NVR).

The transport association was founded in 1987 as a GmbH by the following founding members: the independent cities of Cologne , Bonn and Leverkusen , the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , Rhein-Erft-Kreis , Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis , Oberbergischer Kreis , the town of Monheim am Rhein in the Mettmann district , as well as the municipal transport companies and the Deutsche Bundesbahn .

Structural development and tasks

In 1996 the structure was changed in the course of the railway reform. The Verbundgesellschaft was expanded to include a responsible body in cooperation area 2 (Rhein-Sieg). Since January 1, 2004, it has been a 100% subsidiary of the VRS association (ZV VRS).

tasks

The main task of the association is to plan, organize and design local rail passenger transport (SPNV) in the Rhine-Sieg region.

See also : List of German tariff and transport associations

In particular, this includes

• Tenders for regional rail services
• Mobility management
• Coordination of regional and local transport offers as well
• Planning, design and control of the local rail transport.

The Verbundgesellschaft coordinates all cross-company activities in the Verbund area . One of the central design elements is the network tariff . VRS GmbH takes on a large number of planning , coordination and service tasks for the regional authorities and transport companies .

In particular, this includes

• Association tariff
• distribution
• marketing
• Communication and
• Revenue sharing.

Managing directors

Michael Vogel and Norbert Reinkober are the managing directors of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg in 2018.

Data on the VRS

Traffic area

The traffic area covers an area of ​​5,111 km² with 3.3 million inhabitants.

Promotion numbers

Development of passenger numbers in the VRS since 1996

While 312 million passengers were carried in 1990 , the number rose to 400 million in 2000, to 494 million in 2009 and 523 million passengers in 2012, including various special services. The number of passengers continued to rise in the following years to 552 million passengers in 2017. In 2018, the number of passengers fell to 551 million, but revenues rose.

The VRS statistics show the following values ​​for the years 2000 to 2012, adjusted for the influence of the NRW ticket , the + City ticket on long-distance Deutsche Bahn and the BahnCard 100 , as well as the special effects of the major events WYD 2005 , World Cup 2006 and DEKT 2007 :

year	Trips in millions
2000	400
2010	499
2011	507
2012	515
2013	530
2014	533
2015	537
2016	544
2017	552
2018	551
2019	556

Operating data

• 524 traffic lines , of which
  • 23 railway lines , including 5 S-Bahn
  • 19 city and tram lines
  • 478 bus routes
• 7,448 stops .

Some lines operate in neighboring towns and communities in the districts of Altenkirchen (Westerwald) , Neuwied , Vulkaneifel and the districts of Düren , Märkischer Kreis and Olpe .

Traffic Company

Railways of the City of Monheim GmbH (BSM) Bus traffic Rhineland (BVR) DB Regio NRW DB Regio Rhineland Hessische Landesbahn , Dreiländerbahn area Kraftverkehr Gebr. Wiedenhoff Euskirchen roundabout company (KVE) Cologne Transport Company (KVB) Martin Becker GmbH & Co. KG (MB) national express (NX) Oberbergische Verkehrs-AG (OVAG) Rhein-Erft-Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (REVG) Rhein-Sieg-Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (RSVG) Regiobus Rheinland GmbH (RBR) Regional traffic Cologne (RVK) Rurtalbus

Karl Schäfer Omnibus Travel City bus Dormagen Stadtwerke Bonn-Verkehrs GmbH (SWBV) Stadtwerke Brühl (STWB) City transport company Bergisch Gladbach GmbH City traffic Euskirchen (SVE) City traffic Hürth (SVH) Stadtwerke Wesseling GmbH (SWW) Tirtey Travel (TI) trans regio Deutsche Regionalbahn GmbH (TR) Transdev SZ (SZ) Transport company Hüttebräucker Bergisches Land transport company (VBL) Westerwaldbahn (WEBA) wupsi GmbH (wupsi)

Cities and municipalities (selection)

Alfter Altenkirchen (Westerwald) 1 Bad Honnef Bad Hönningen 1 Bad Münstereifel Bedburg Bergheim Bergisch Gladbach Bergneustadt Betzdorf 1 Blankenheim Bonn Bornheim Bruehl Burscheid Daaden 1 Dahlem Dormagen Drolshagen 1 Düren 1 Eitorf Elsdorf Engelskirchen Erftstadt Euskirchen Cheeky Gerolstein Gummersbach Hellenthal Hennef (victory)

Herdorf 1 Hillesheim 1 Hückeswagen Huerth Call Kerpen Churches (victory) 1 Cologne Koenigswinter Kürten Corpses Leverkusen Lindlar Linz on the Rhine 1 Lohmar Marienheide Meckenheim Mechernich Meinerzhagen 1 Merzenich 1 Monheim am Rhein Morsbach Much Nettersheim Neunkirchen-Seelscheid Neuwied 1 Niederkassel Nörvenich 1 Nümbrecht Upper Kyll 1

Olpe 1 Pulheim Odenthal Overath Radevormwald Reichshof Rheinbach Rösrath Ruppichteroth Saint Augustine Schleiden Siegburg Swisttal Titz 1 Troisdorf Uncle Wachtberg Waldbröl Weilerswist Wermelskirchen Wesseling Wiehl Windeck Wipperfürth Knowledge (victory) 1 Zülpich

¹ location is outside the compound area. VRS tickets are only valid on certain lines during the transition.

Transitional tariffs

The VRS has transitional tariffs for many of the surrounding transport associations or transport companies, which means that continuous tickets are offered in the respective border areas.

A special form of the transition tariff is the so-called tariff collar : In certain areas or on certain routes outside the VRS network area, the VRS tariff applies to cross-border journeys, while its tariff applies to journeys within a collar area. In particular, all VRS network tickets are also valid in all tariff collars. Tariff collars are:

• since January 1, 2000 the railway line to Gerolstein ( Vulkaneifel district ) ( VRT )
• since January 1, 2002 on the rail routes in the Altenkirchen (Westerwald) district ( VRM )
• since January 1, 2002 on the rail routes in the Ahrweiler district (VRM)
• since May 28, 2006 on the rail routes in the district of Neuwied (VRM), ( right Rhine route to Engers ).
• since February 1, 2005 the cities of Remscheid, Solingen, Dormagen, Grevenbroich, Rommerskirchen and Langenfeld ( VRR )
• since April 1, 2006 the city of Düren and the communities of Vettweiß and Nörvenich ( district of Düren / AVV )

The opposite case, a tariff collar in the VRS area, is in the communities of Bedburg, Elsdorf, Zülpich, Euskirchen and Schleiden. There, the AVV tariff on the local bus routes also applies to journeys from the Düren district or the Aachen city region .

Since June 15, 2008, regular VRS tickets have also been used in the tariff area of ​​the Ahrweiler district (including the Ahr Valley Railway and the DB Rhine route on the left bank of the Rhine from Bonn-Mehlem via Remagen / Sinzig to Brohl). This only applies to VRS incoming and outgoing traffic (see above). VRS job tickets, semester tickets, student tickets or XXL tickets are not recognized in the Ahrweiler district (there is an exception for semester ticket holders residing in the Ahrweiler district). VRS job ticket holders from the Ahrweiler district can purchase additional authorization for the district area. Up until now this was only possible for the VRS / Ahr transition area. However, the VRS / Ahr transition tariff remained in effect until June 15, 2008.

Since January 1, 2015, the VRS tariff has been applied uniformly for all journeys between AVV and VRS, with a few exceptions. For journeys within the AVV or within the VRS, the respective network tariff continues to apply.

See also

• Local transport association Rhineland
• List of German tariff and transport associations
• NRW tariff

Web links

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

• vrs.de: Official website of the Rhein-Sieg transport association (VRS)
• mobil.nrw: North Rhine-Westphalia mobility portal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ VRS balance sheet 2019 , VRS balance sheet 2019
2. ^ The VRS team , Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg.
3. ↑ vrsinfo.de: structural data (accessed on August 20, 2010)
4. ↑ Ministry f. Economy, energy, building, housing and transport in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: Mobility in North Rhine-Westphalia. Data and facts 2010
5. ↑ see VRS composite report 2013, page 56
6. ↑ Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg GmbH: Another record for passenger numbers and income. Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg GmbH, March 27, 2018, archived from the original on September 26, 2018 ; accessed on September 25, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg GmbH: VRS balance sheet 2018: Passenger numbers at a similarly high level as in the previous year, slight increase in ... Accessed September 27, 2019 . 
8. ↑ see VRS composite report 2013, page 59
9. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ http://www.vrsinfo.de/3_11_3.php
11. ↑ http://www.vrsinfo.de/tickets/tickets-zu-nachbarverbuenden/fahrten- between- vrs-und- avv.html