Zurich Transport Association
The Zurich Transport Network ( ZVV ) is the tariff and traffic group of local public transport of the canton of Zurich and some surrounding areas. Around 658 million passengers were carried in the ZVV in 2018. Every day almost 491,000 passengers crossed the Zurich city limits by public transport. The cost recovery rate rose to 69 percent.
Legal structure
The ZVV is a dependent institution under public law and forms a holding company for a total of 44 independent companies ( Swiss Federal Railways , Swiss Post , regional transport companies, as well as various smaller bus companies, mountain railways and shipping lines) in the canton of Zurich, which have joined together in the transport association To offer customers a comprehensive range of transport services.
At the same time, the ZVV is the highest authority in terms of transport policy in the Canton of Zurich; it is functionally attached to the cantonal economics department.
The general public is primarily familiar with the ZVV as a tariff association that combines all means of transport (whether bus, train, tram, boat or cable car) under a uniform tariff system . All means of transport can be used within a tariff zone. Since December 2012, all types of tickets have also been available as Z-Pass outside the ZVV area in other tariff networks.
organization
Market Responsible Companies (MVU)
Since around 1995, the ZVV has been divided into geographical market areas, in each of which a single company responsible for the market (MVU) performs all tasks. The order catalog includes, among other things, the provision of mileage (through tendering / awarding to third parties or yourself), offer planning and marketing.
Among the eight MVUs, the SBB occupy a special position, as their responsibility is not limited to certain areas, but includes the entire S-Bahn network. Lake Zurich is the sole responsibility of the ZSG, the other six companies usually divide the canton according to their historically grown responsibility and therefore do not necessarily follow the political boundaries of the districts or the natural boundaries of the regions.
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB)
- City of Zurich
- Agglomeration West ( Limmattal , Kilchberg , Rüschlikon )
- Agglomeration East (Upper Glattal , Zollikon , Zumikon , Küsnacht )
- City of Winterthur
- Seuzach , Wiesendangen , Brütten , Pfungen , Neftenbach and Dättlikon
- Middle Glattal, airport , Bassersdorf
- Furttal , Dielsdorf
- Effretikon , Volketswil
- Zimmerberg region / left bank of Lake Zurich, Höfe district
- Pfannenstiel region / right bank of Lake Zurich, Uster , Hinwil district , Rapperswil-Jona
- Weinland region , parts of Winterthur district , parts of Pfäffikon district
- Region lowlands , Wehntal
- Affoltern district
- Lake Zurich and Obersee, Limmat
Partner company
The term partner company comes from the time the ZVV was founded, when all the companies involved were equal partners. However, the increasingly complex planning tasks have led to the creation of the MVU. The partner companies therefore act as transport officers for the MVU. Due to mergers or restructuring, the number of companies can fluctuate constantly - in 2005, in addition to the eight MVUs, 36 other companies were involved:
- Lanes
- Aargau traffic / Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn (BD)
- Forchbahn (FB)
- Swiss Southeast Railway (SOB)
- Thurbo
- buses
- H. Baumgartner bus company / Zurich-Zollikon-Küsnacht bus company (AZZK)
- Aargau traffic / Limmatbus
- Eurobus Welti-Furrer
- Happy travel
- Maag bus company
- VBRF E. Meier formerly Transport Company of the Furttal Region (VBRF)
- AHW bus companies
- Bamert bus company
- Andres Brothers Transporte
- Brothers Gut
- O. Schneider bus companies
- Ryffel
- ... and 15 other transport officers
- Mountain railways
- Ships
- Shipping cooperative Greifensee
- Lake Zurich ferry Horgen – Meilen
History and principle of operation
The Zürcher Verkehrsverbund was founded in 1990, but its basis was already formed by the cantonal vote on the creation of a Zurich S-Bahn on November 29, 1981. The intellectual father of both projects was the then Zurich government councilor Hans Künzi . Künzi persuaded the voters of the canton of Zurich to provide 520 million francs for the new Hirschengraben-Zürichberg tunnel, which was given to SBB as a practically turnkey solution. In order to protect and control the investment, Künzi created a cantonal organization that forced all parties involved to come to a common table - thus the first Swiss transport association was born.
In the eight and a half years between coordination and the start of operations, the subtleties of both projects were further worked out. The transport association only grew to become an association; He united all transport companies operating in the canton under one roof and consolidated the new hierarchy, in which the so-called main S-Bahn network serves as the main mode of transport and the bus routes take over regional and local distribution. In addition, the structures were created within the ZVV in order to be able to consider the concerns of the municipalities and regions and to develop and adapt offers in a coordinated manner.
For customers, the creation of the transport association went hand in hand with the introduction of a tariff association, which enabled all modes of transport to be used with the same ticket. Together with the opening of the Zurich S-Bahn, this brought about a considerable improvement in the range of local public transport services .
Clock traffic
Within the ZVV - where it had not already been the case since May 1982 - the regular timetable was introduced on all lines . On all S-Bahn lines that pass through Zurich's main station , the so-called main network, every half hour is the rule. In sparsely populated areas, the hourly train and bus service is the rule, while in the vicinity of the cities the bus routes run every 15 minutes during the day. In the large cities of Zurich and Winterthur , trams , trolleybuses and buses run at significantly shorter intervals during the day.
Zurich S-Bahn
→ Main article: Zurich S-Bahn
The Zurich S-Bahn was opened on May 27, 1990 as the first S-Bahn system in Switzerland. The network is operated by SBB in close cooperation with the Canton of Zurich and is the main mode of transport in the Zurich Transport Association.
For the S-Bahn were Zurich Tunnel between Zurich Stadelhofen and the Glatt valley , the quick access to the Zurich Oberland possible and Hirsch grave tunnel between Zurich main station and Zurich Stadelhofen, the south-eastern areas of the canton connects better with the central station built. The Sihltal-Zürich-Uetliberg-Bahn was extended underground from Zürich Selnau to the main station. The Stadelhofen train stations and the main train station were greatly expanded.
Key figures
The network area covers 1839 km² with 1.52 million inhabitants. It is accessed by a network with a length of 4567 km of 407 lines with 2748 stops . 1320 vehicles (including 279 S-Bahn compositions) are in use, and 4050 people are responsible for their operation (excluding SBB staff).
See also
literature
- Beatrice Henes: The special position of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund in the Swiss network landscape, in: VDV / VDV-Förderkreis (Ed.): Verkehrsverbünde - Through cooperation and integration for more attractiveness and efficiency in local public transport. Blue book series of the VDV, Volume 16, DVV, Hamburg 2009. ISBN 978-3-7771-0403-4 , pp. 292-299.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b ZVV Annual Report 2018 (accessed on: January 27, 2020)
- ↑ Homepage Z-Pass ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
