West traffic
| WestVerkehr GmbH | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Geilenkirchen |
| Web presence | http://www.west-verkehr.de |
| Reference year | 2017 |
| owner |
NEW AG Kreiswerke Heinsberg GmbH |
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 15th December 2014 |
| Managing directors | Udo Winkens |
| Transport network | AVV |
| Employee | about 100 |
| Lines | |
| bus | 915 km line length |
| number of vehicles | |
| Omnibuses | 90 own buses, 75 buses contractors |
| statistics | |
| Passengers | 9.5 million |
| Mileage | 5.2 million km |
The West Transport GmbH is a regional transport company in Heinsberg district . The company, also known locally as west , was founded in late 2014. It emerged from the company WestEnergie und Verkehr GmbH , whose transport division was spun off into the new company in 2015. WestEnergie und Verkehr was created in 2008 by changing the legal form from WestEnergie und Verkehr GmbH & Co. KG . This company in turn emerged in August 2002 through the merger of Kreiswerke Heinsberg GmbH (KWH) with Erkelenzer Westdeutsche Licht- und Kraftwerke AG (WLK) . The company is based in Geilenkirchen . Another customer center is located in Erkelenz. The NEW AG and the circle Heinsberg involved in society.
It owns West-Gleis GmbH and Kreisverkehrsgesellschaft GmbH as 100% subsidiaries . On August 1, 2015, the energy division was spun off and the commercial register was changed (renamed) to West-Verkehr GmbH .
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railroad
The West Traffic owns the Geilenkirchener circular path , the railway Heinsberg-alleviating and connecting railway Klinkum-Wegberg-Wildenrath . The infrastructure maintenance of the museum Selfkantbahn route and the handling of goods at the standard gauge Geilenkirchen train station are also in the hands of west . The Heinsberg – Lindern railway line is leased to Rurtalbahn GmbH . Furthermore, the wholly-owned subsidiary West-Gleis GmbH, as a registered railway infrastructure company and railway company, is responsible for the operation of the connecting railway Klinkum – Prüfcenter Wegberg-Wildenrath.
Public transport
The company's own transport services are predominantly carried out by the wholly owned subsidiary Kreisverkehrsgesellschaft Heinsberg mbH (KVH) . KVH provides the services with its own drivers and drivers from west, with west making the entire vehicle fleet available to KVH for a fee and managing operations and arranging business. As a member of the Aachener Verkehrsverbund (AVV), the transport company operates local public transport in the Heinsberg district and supplies a 915-kilometer route network with around 90 of its own and 80 other buses from contract companies. The transport offer is mainly geared towards the transportation of schoolchildren and the serving of around 100 schools, which is why, apart from a few express bus connections, the departure times of the buses on the lines do not follow a uniform timetable. While the traffic with large regular buses often ends after 7 p.m. on weekdays, buses are only used on the main lines at the weekend.
In order to still be able to offer transport in the so-called off- peak times , a call bus system, the so-called multi-bus, is used . This enables minibuses to be used on call (on-call bus) in defined areas, outside of the otherwise binding routes / routes, from stops to the desired destination.
WestVerkehr also owns a historic Mercedes-Benz O 3500 bus , which, in accordance with the Passenger Transport Act, has a permit for use in rental cars and also functions as a shuttle bus at events in the region .
Since 2014, the so-called bike and leisure bus with a bike trailer with line number 499 has been traveling between several bike hubs on Sundays and public holidays in the summer months .
With the timetable change on January 1, 2020, WestVerkehr took over the operation of eleven previous bus routes of the Busverkehr Rheinland (BVR) in the Heinsberg district, and a new city bus route in Hückelhoven was added.
West bus in Ratheim
Historic omnibus from 1953, MB O 3500
WestVerkehr's vehicle fleet consists of Mercedes-Benz Citaro , MAN Lion's City and NL 263 / NG 313 buses and Solaris Urbino III and IV buses . WestVerkehr also has a Mercedes-Benz O 408 from the 1990s.
Line network
The following lines (without multibus areas, see below) are served by WestVerkehr in the Heinsberg district (as of 2020):
Multibus 2020 (on-call bus)
The transport takes place in the operating periods mentioned below after telephone request from assigned stops within the respective area to any desired exit point or, if necessary, to the transfer point for travel requests beyond the multibus areas.
The multibus runs in the entire district of Heinsberg at the following times:
- Mondays to Thursdays: 8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
- Fridays: 8:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
- Saturdays: 6:30 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.
- Sundays and public holidays: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m., on the nights before public holidays until 2:00 a.m.
In the area of the municipalities of Gangelt, Selfkant and Waldfeucht, the MultiBus also runs at the following times:
- Monday to Thursday on school days: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
- Monday to Thursday on public holidays: 6:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m.
- Fridays on school days: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
- Fridays on public holidays: 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m., on the nights before public holidays until 2:00 a.m.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Public announcement to the Aachen district court file number HRB 19385 In: Justice portal of the federal and state governments . December 15, 2014, accessed May 7, 2020.
- ↑ Dieter Weber: NEW is realigning itself in terms of personnel. In: RP Online . August 28, 2013, accessed November 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Public announcement on HRA 6054 In: Justizportal des Bundes und der Länder . July 30, 2008. Retrieved December 19, 2019
- ↑ Public announcement on HRB 14920 In: Justice portal of the federal government and the states . July 30, 2008. Retrieved December 19, 2019
- ^ WestEnergie und Verkehr: Merger is approved. In: Aachener Zeitung . February 28, 2003, accessed December 19, 2019 .
- ↑ West Verkehr GmbH is rolling into the future. In: Aachener Zeitung. June 30, 2015, accessed July 5, 2015 .
- ↑ Extract from the Federal Gazette
- ↑ Explanations of the WestVerkehr multibus call bus system in the Heinsberg district
- ↑ Multibus in the Heinsberg district (PDF download)
- ↑ Dettmar Fischer: That changes in the bus schedule in the Heinsberg district. In: Aachener Zeitung . December 18, 2019, accessed December 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Cologne district government , line concessions in the Heinsberg district
- ↑ Expansion of multibus operation in 2020
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