Zweckverband SPNV Münsterland
The Zweckverband SPNV Münsterland (ZVM) was created on the basis of the law on local public transport in North Rhine-Westphalia (ÖPNVG NRW) of March 7, 1995 in the version of January 27, 2004, through which the legal basis created for the regionalization of local public transport at EU and federal level is supplemented, founded on December 10, 1995 as a regional authority .
The Zweckverband SPNV Münsterland is a result of the railway structural reform . "SPNV" stands for local rail passenger transport. He has been a member of the Zweckverband Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe (NWL) since 2008 . The basis for this is a new public transport law for NRW that came into force on January 1, 2008 . The aim of this new version of the law is a. to merge the nine traffic areas of the state to three local transport organizations: Rhine-Ruhr, Westphalia-Lippe and Rhineland.
While the object of ownership for the road passenger transport (public road transport) the circles and urban districts has been transmitted, the are for the perception SPNV in cooperation areas formed purpose associations. For cooperation area 5 ( Münsterland ), the districts of Borken , Coesfeld , Steinfurt and Warendorf as well as the independent city of Münster have formed the SPNV Münsterland association. In addition to the ZRL , NPH , VVOWL and the ZWS , the SPNV Münsterland special-purpose association is a member of the umbrella association for local traffic in Westphalia-Lippe , founded in January 2008 and is one of the three new special-purpose associations at state level.
The Zweckverband performs the following tasks:
- Planning, organization and design of local rail transport in the association area
- Formation of a community tariff , creation of uniform conditions of transport and coordination of the transport offer in local public transport
- Coordination of the local transport plans to be drawn up by the districts of Borken , Coesfeld , Steinfurt and Warendorf as well as the independent city of Münster and
- Preparation of a local transport plan for the association.
- Through a cooperation on the tariff there is also a connection to the city of Osnabrück and some communities in the Osnabrück district.
At its last association meeting in October 2011, the Zweckverband Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe (NWL) created the basis for harmonizing or merging the five existing tariff associations in Westphalia-Lippe. The further development of the tariffs lies with the NWL or a tariff development project group (proposed seat: OWL Verkehr GmbH in Bielefeld).