Agilis
Dietmar Knerr (speaking voice )
Agilis Railway Company (AE) and Agilis Transport Company ( AV) (own spelling agilis ) are transport company, use the parts of railway passenger services in Bavaria. AV is a subsidiary of Benex; AE is a joint subsidiary of Benex (49%) and the Hamburg elevated railway ( HHA ) (51 %).
- 3.1 Regensburg Star
- 3.2 Diesel Power Upper Franconia
History
End of May 2008 won the Hamburg elevated railway, the announcement of the so-called Regensburg star (even E network Regensburg ), which includes the electrified regional railway lines to Regensburg. On 30 July 2008, representatives of the mission support ( ie the Bavarian railway company ), the elevated train and the Benex the traffic contract for this project. For the diesel power Upper Franconia, which is operated since June 2011, Benex was awarded the contract. In order to operate these routes, the two " Agilis " companies were founded with its headquarters in Regensburg in the first half of 2009.
The office is located in the immediate vicinity of Regensburg Central Station in the so-called Posthof. The depot for the "E - Net" was built on the site of a former Sugar factory in the east of the city. The groundbreaking ceremony for this place on October 29, 2009.
Tenders
E- Regensburg network with Donautalbahn
In November 2007, the HHA won the tender of the e- network Regensburg, which comprises a total of 5.5 million train kilometers per year on the routes from Regensburg to Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, flat Ling, Landshut and Ingolstadt. It prompted by DB Regio Bayern appeal procedures was rejected by the Munich Higher Regional Court on 21 May 2008. According to the Bavarian Railway Company (BEG ) of the HHA awarded the contract. For traffic 26 new Alstom Coradia Continental trainsets were purchased.
Diesel Power Upper Franconia
After winning the tender of the e- network Regensburg Benex awarded the contract even if the notice of diesel network Upper Franconia in October 2008. The company was incorporated in two stages in June 2011 and in December 2012 on numerous non-electrified main lines and branch lines between Bad Steben, pastures, Bamberg and Bad Unterrodach. The tilting technology connections and Alex trains are not affected. The traffic volume amounts to four million train kilometers a year, and the contract runs until the end of 2023 this was increased by one-third the previous offer, so on almost all routes, a continuous hour clock is driven. ( Bad Unterrodach - pastures, Wunsiedel - Bayreuth ).
Route networks
Regensburg star
The timetable change on 12 December 2010, the Agilis railway company took over the operation of the Regensburg star on in a first stage. Agilis replaced since the regional train services from DB Regio on the routes Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz - Regensburg - Plattling, Regensburg - Ingolstadt and Regensburg - Landshut. The existing range has been compressed and expanded, especially in the morning and evening hours, but most trains are used with less seats than before at DB Regio. The tracks are partly operated mainly by the hour, in the education and vocational traffic in a 30 -minute intervals. The timetable change in December 2011, the network of Ingolstadt was extended to Ulm ("second level "). In addition to ordinary regional trains all the way and hold Express trains run from Regensburg to Ulm in 4 -hour intervals on weekdays and at 2- hour intervals on weekends. The operation runs throughout the network with trains of the type Alstom Coradia Continental, with most rides train conductors are used. The prompts and instructions are spoken by Bernhard Fleischmann.
The Regensburg star consists of the following routes:
The annual mileage in this network is 5.5 million km.
Diesel Power Upper Franconia
On 12 June 2011, the Agilis transport company took over the operation on the non- electrified commuter trains in Upper Franconia, around the towns of Bamberg, Bayreuth, Coburg and Hof. There, 38 trains of the type Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1 are in use. The traffic contract runs until 2023. By 2011, DB Regio had served the routes.
From the start of operation on June 12th at had 3 routes on the weekend trains are replaced by buses because at Agilis had not advertised enough drivers and not enough Leihlokführer could be found. Since the timetable change on December 11, 2011, however, operate on schedule again on all lines trains.
The Diesel Power Upper Franconia comprises the routes:
The regional trains make the following continuous connections:
In August 2012, gave the PTA, the Bavarian Railway Company (BEG ), announced that the diesel power the Agilis is the best among the fifteen regional networks of Bavaria in Upper Franconia.