Verkehrsverbund Tirol
| Verkehrsverbund Tirol GesmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1995 |
| Seat | Innsbruck , Austria |
| management | Alexander Jug |
| Number of employees | 50 (as of June 2019) |
| sales | 52,475,977 euros (2017) |
| Branch | Transport network |
| Website | www.vvt.at |
The Verkehrsverbund Tirol (VVT) is a public company based in Innsbruck and was founded in 1995. The business purpose is the planning, coordination, financing and ordering of the local public transport ( ÖPNV ) in Tyrol .
history
The VVT was founded on April 1st, 1995 as part of the Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Department of Transport Planning . In the spring of 2000 the VVT was spun off into the independent Verkehrsverbund Tirol GesmbH in order to meet the requirements of the Public Transport Act (Public Local and Regional Transport Act 1999). The state of Tyrol is 100% owner.
In January 2018, the mobility service Tirol GmbH was founded with the Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe and Stubaitalbahn GmbH in order to implement projects together. One example of this is the ticket shop launched in March 2019.
Range of services (as of spring 2019)
- 200 lines in the network including local and city traffic
- A total of 650 buses per day in use
- 5,000 courses per day
- 6,600 stops
- 38 Talent S-Bahn trains
- 6 S-Bahn lines
- 5 rex lines
- 2 long-distance trains
- 5 commuter trains
- 29 regional bus systems in the regions (e.g. Arlberg)
- 12 nightliners
- 10 Regiotax systems
- 3 Regioexpress systems (incl. Ötztal ski express bus, seasonal)
- 2 shared taxis (Defreggental, Hochpustertal)
- 144 Dynamic Passenger Information Systems
- 36 transport companies commissioned directly by VVT
Service (as of spring 2019)
- 53,000 personal visits to the customer center annually
- 18,000 telephone inquiries in the customer center annually
- 10,000 digital inquiries in the customer center per year
- 17 million timetable inquiries in 2018, including 14 million via the SmartRide app
- 110 individualized timetable folders annually with a circulation of 1.3 million
Tariff system
On November 1, 2001, the zone tariff was introduced across the board, dividing the area into hexagonal tariff zones (“honeycombs”). This is a uniform design of the tariff in the network area and enables one ticket to be purchased for several transport companies.
Starting in 2011, students were offered a discounted semester ticket for the first time. The offer was reduced / expanded in 2014 and 2017.
Annual senior tickets for the VVT network have been available since 2012.
A ticket that is valid throughout Tyrol has been available since 2013 to expand the free travel for school children (“SchulPlus-, LehrPlus-Ticket”).
In June 2017, as part of the first stage of the VVT tariff reform, the Tyrol-wide annual ticket (June 2017 to March 2019 for 490 euros) was introduced. There are also annual tickets for individual regions and cities. After the first six months after the introduction of the new tickets, the VVT was able to name almost 115,000 regular customers (in June there were 92,000). The tariff reform won the VCÖ Mobility Award 2017 in the category of public transport and was nominated for the Austrian Climate Protection Award 2017 of the BMLFUW .
Since April 2019, with the second stage of the tariff reform, there has been a linear tariff and a new ticket structure, such as instead of route-related weekly and monthly tickets, there have been tickets for all of Tyrol or a region since April 2019. The tickets have thus been adapted to the successful model of the annual tickets.
Customer statistics (as of spring 2019)
- Well over 70 million customer routes traveled
- 47,000 annual tickets (one ticket for bus, train and tram)
- 58,000 school, school plus / teaching, teaching plus tickets for schoolchildren and apprentices
- 29,000 senior citizen tickets - for a whole year with all public transport throughout Tyrol
- 12,000 semester tickets, of which around 2,000 in Innsbruck and around 10,000 in the region
Timetables
The timetables of individual transport companies are coordinated according to the system of integrated regular traffic. The timetable is also tailored to the interests of certain user groups (commuters, schoolchildren) during peak traffic times.
Regiobus - expansion of regional transport concepts
Regional public transport concepts with regional buses are implemented under the term Regiobus . In 2002 the first Regiobus concepts with Villgraten, Achensee, Hall, the Arlberg and the Zugspitzarena were implemented. The VVT acts as a coordinating organizational unit and contractual partner between the transport company and the financing partners. The measures extend to expanding the timetables, ordering new rolling stock (yellow design of the buses; in 2002, bus trailers were introduced for lines in the Inn Valley, which enable the high volume of passengers to be handled economically at peak times) and the modernization of the infrastructure (in Areas of stops, passenger information and accelerated travel times). According to VVT, attention is paid to reliability (long-term contractually secured financing), regionality (coordination with regional actors) and innovation (expansion of the existing offer).
Infrastructural tasks
The area of responsibility includes various infrastructural projects: With the expansion of dynamic passenger information , real-time timetable information is provided at busy stops by means of LED displays. Stops are to be built across Tyrol according to a uniform system. With the introduction of public transport priority , shorter waiting times for public transport vehicles at traffic lights are to be achieved.
Other VVT projects are the construction of park-and-ride and bike-and-ride facilities as well as the construction of new, modern bus terminals at train stations.
area
The network area comprises the entire state of Tyrol (North and East Tyrol) as well as individual cross-border routes, for example:
- Innsbruck - Brenner - Sillian - Lienz
- Kitzbühel - Mittersill - Matrei in East Tyrol
- Scharnitz - Mittenwald - Ehrwald
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.tirol.gv.at/presse/mektiven/meldung/artikel/aktuelles-aus-der-regierungssitzung-13/
- ^ Land Tirol (Ed.): Verkehr in Tirol 2000 . Innsbruck ( tirol.gv.at [PDF]).
- ↑ VVT tariff reform stage 2 as of 1.4. - New VVT & ... Accessed June 19, 2019 .
- ^ VVT (ed.): Zone plan Tyrol . December 2015 ( vvt.at [PDF]).
- ↑ New VVT ticket for all students. (No longer available online.) VVT, August 25, 2011, archived from the original on July 11, 2017 ; Retrieved July 3, 2017 . 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.
- ↑ From autumn, students will travel cheaper by bus and train. Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, August 16, 2014, accessed on July 3, 2017 .
- ↑ New semester tickets for 180 euros for all of Tyrol. Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, March 16, 2017, accessed on July 3, 2017 .
- ↑ students. Verkehrsverbund Tirol, archived from the original ; Retrieved July 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Senior annual ticket for 240 euros. In: tirol.ORF.at. December 17, 2012, accessed July 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Annual ticket for senior citizens. Verkehrsverbund Tirol, archived from the original ; Retrieved July 3, 2017 .
- ↑ This is how pupils receive the new public transport ticket. In: tirol.ORF.at. July 25, 2013. Retrieved July 3, 2017 .
- ↑ SL ticket. Verkehrsverbund Tirol, archived from the original ; Retrieved July 3, 2017 .
- ^ Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government: Clear the way for the public transport tariff reform. January 31, 2017, accessed July 3, 2017 .
- ^ Tariff reform 2017. Verkehrsverbund Tirol, archived from the original ; Retrieved July 3, 2017 .
- ^ VCÖ Mobility Award Austria for the Carinthian Tourist Mobility Center. Verkehrsclub Österreich, September 19, 2017, accessed on October 8, 2017 .
- ^ Tariff reform of the state of Tyrol. In: klimaschutzpreis.at. Retrieved October 8, 2017 .
- ^ VVT tariff reform. Retrieved June 19, 2019 (American English).
- ^ History. Verkehrsverbund Tirol, archived from the original on April 5, 2014 ; accessed on January 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Tasks & Goals. (No longer available online.) Verkehrsverbund Tirol, archived from the original on January 6, 2017 ; accessed on January 6, 2017 . 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.
- ^ Land Tirol (Ed.): Verkehr in Tirol 2003 . Innsbruck May 2004, p. 64–67 ( tirol.gv.at [PDF]).
