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The Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund (MVV; Munich Transport and Tariff Association [1]) is the transit authority of the city of Munich, the capital of the German state of Bavaria. Its jurisdiction covers the city and its surrounding area, responsible for the Munich S-Bahn commuter trains, the Munich U-Bahn, the Munich tramway and buses.
Topographical map of the Munich U-Bahn system. The Munich U-Bahn is a public rapid transit system serving the city of Munich and surrounding communities. The system is operated by the Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG, "Munich Transport Company") and served over 375 million passengers per year in 2012. [1]
Alongside the S-Bahn, the Munich subway is the most important means of local public transport in Munich. Since the opening of the first line on October 19, 1971, a network with 103.1 km of track and 96 stops has been built, to which the neighboring town of Garching near Munich is also connected and in future also the Planegg district of ...
On 28 May 1972, the Munich S-Bahn network was finally put into service with 360 kilometres (220 mi) of tracks and 101 trains of the ET 420 series. Town names in the nearby Munich such as Dachau, Tutzing, Erding and Pasing came into the picture. It was the first time a S-Bahn network that size was put into service on a single date.
The U-Bahn, alongside the S-Bahn and Regional trains operated by the DB Regio Bayern, is the most important form of public transportation in Munich. In 2022 about 364 million passengers used it, in 2019 before the pandemic it was 615 million.
The 1972 Munich Olympic Games presaged a major expansion of public transport in the city. In 1965, construction of the Munich U-Bahn , the city's rapid transit system, was started. It opened in 1971, the same year as the transit authority MVV was founded.
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Munich has an extensive public transport system consisting of an underground metro, trams, buses and high-speed rail. In 2015, the transport modal share in Munich was 38 percent public transport, 25 percent car, 23 percent walking, and 15 percent bicycle. [216] Its public transport system delivered 566 million passenger trips that year. [217]