Hamburger Verkehrsverbund

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The Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV) is an organisation coordinating the public transport in and around Hamburg, Germany. Its main objectives are to provide the user with a unified fare system, requiring only a single ticket for journeys with transfers between different operating companies, and to further facilitate and speed up travel by harmonising the individual companies' schedules. At its inception in 1965, HVV was one of the first organisations of this kind both in Germany and in the world.

XXL bus of line Metrobus 5

Today, HVV provides rail, bus and ferry transportation for an area of 8700 square kilometres with approximately 3.3 million inhabitants in the states of Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony. HVV has approximately 1.8 million customers on an average working day.

With an average of 50.000 commuters per day the HVV bus line Metrobus 5 the busiest line in Europe. (The line would be much better served with a tram; however, political considerations make this infeasible at the current time.) In the city centre, stops are served without a specific schedule every two to three minutes and since December 2005, the world's longest, double-articulated buses are used.

1 Partners (with external links)
2 History
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Partners (with external links)

As of 2004, HVV comprised the following 38 partners:

AKN Eisenbahn AG (AKN), operating three commuter train lines
Autokraft GmbH, operating bus lines
Becker Reisen GmbH, operating two bus lines
Dahmetal KG, operating bus lines
Dammann-Reisen, operating one bus line in the Buxtehude area
DB Regio AG (Region Niedersachsen/Bremen), part of Deutsche Bahn group, operating train lines
DB Regionalbahn Schleswig-Holstein GmbH (RBSH), operating rail services
Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser GmbH, operating rail and bus lines
Globetrotter Reisen GmbH, operating two bus lines
HADAG Seetouristik und Fährdienst AG, operating ferries on the Elbe river
Hamburger Hochbahn AG, operating the three U-Bahn and many bus lines
KVG Stade GmbH & Co. KG, operating bus lines
KViP Kreisverkehrsgesellschaft in Pinneberg mbH, an organization like the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund
LBB Linienbus Berkenthin GmbH, operating two bus lines
Ludwigsluster Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH,operating bus lines
metronom Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH, operating rail services
Mittelzentrumsholding Bad Segeberg-Wahlstedt GmbH & CO. KG, concessionary for some bus lines operated by Autokraft
NBE nordbahn Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, operating rail services
Nord-Ostsee-Bahn GmbH, operating rail services
Omnibusbetrieb Storjohann GmbH & Co. KG,operating bus lines
Otto Strunk Omnibusbetrieb GmbH, operating bus lines
Pinneberger Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (PVG), operating bus lines
RMVB Ratzeburg-Möllner Verkehrsbetriebe mbH, operating bus lines
Reese Reisen GmbH, operating bus lines
Regionalbus GmbH RBB, operating two bus lines
S-Bahn Hamburg GmbH, operating the S-Bahn lines
Stadtverkehr Lübeck GmbH (SL), operating bus lines
Stadtwerke Bad Oldesloe, Ratzeburg und Mölln, operating bus lines
Stadtwerke Norderstedt, operating one night bus line and coordinating public transportation in Norderstedt
Süderelbe-Bus GmbH, operating one bus line
Verkehrsbetriebe Osthannover GmbH, operating bus lines
Verkehrsbetriebe Buchholz i.d.N. GmbH, operating bus lines
Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein AG (VHH), operating bus lines
VKP Verkehrsbetriebe Kreis Plön GmbH,operating bus lines
Verkehrsgesellschaft Norderstedt mbH (VGN), owning two lines operated by Hamburger Hochbahn AG and AKN, respectively
VGS Verkehrsgesellschaft Südholstein mbH, operating one bus line
Zerbin Busreisen GmbH, operating one bus line

[edit] History

HVV was founded on November 29, 1965 with the three initial partners

Hamburger Hochbahn AG, operator of the U-Bahn lines,
Deutsche Bundesbahn, operator of the S-Bahn lines,
Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein (VHH), operators of bus lines in the southeastern suburbs.