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A vintage ABOAG bus used for tourist services. Bus transport is the oldest public transport service in Berlin, the capital city of Germany, having been introduced in 1846. Since 1929, services have been operated by the Berlin Transport Company (German: Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, BVG), although during the Cold War-era division of the city they ...
www.bvg.de /en. The Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (German: 'Berlin Transport Company') is the main public transport company of Berlin, the capital city of Germany. It manages the city's U-Bahn (underground), tram, bus, replacement services (EV) and ferry networks, but not the S-Bahn urban rail system. The generally used abbreviation, BVG, has been ...
The public transit system in Frankfurt is part of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (abbreviated: RMV) transport network and consists of several carriers who all use the same fare system. Therefore, one ticket is valid for a journey which may include several modes of transit run by different operators. The fares are paid in advance of travel at a ...
The BVG-West waived from July 1966, the prefix A on the bus lines, the BVG-Ost waived on 1 January 1968. While in the west tram traffic was stopped 15 months later, the passenger in the east could not tell from the line number whether it was a tram or bus line. The Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe therefore planned to systematise their network in the ...
Transport in Germany. Frankfurt Airport, the fourth-busiest airport in Europe. Leipzig Hauptbahnhof, Europe's largest railway station by floor area. Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line, running parallel to Bundesautobahn 3. As a densely populated country in a central location in Europe and with a developed economy, Germany has a dense ...
The Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof Berlin (short: ZOB Berlin) is a central bus station located at the Funkturm Berlin in the Berlin district Westend of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district. It was initiated by Gustav Severin (founder of the Association of Berlin Bus and Coach Operators) [1] and went into operation in May 1966.
Intercity buses in Germany. Flixbuses at Berlin's central bus station in 2016. Intercity bus services in Germany virtually did not exist until 2013, when the market was liberalised with the end of Deutsche Bahn's monopoly on long-distance passenger travel. Liberalisation led to the creation of a number of coach companies, including Flixbus ...
Passenger development. The VVS traffic area covers 3012 square kilometres with a population of around 2.4 million. In this area, 17 regional trainlines, seven S-Bahn lines, 19 Stadtbahnlinien operate (including two special lines that only run to special events), the Zahnradbahn Stuttgart, the Standseilbahn Stuttgart as well as 359 bus lines, three trolleybus lines (see trolleybus Esslingen am ...