DB Stadtverkehr
The DB Bahn Urban GmbH, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main is a former subsidiary of DB Mobility Logistics AG, which was responsible for the regional bus and city traffic.
Business
The company and the same business field in the DB Group were founded in 2004. For Urban Transport business unit included 22 bus companies and more than 70 other investments in transport companies and communities. The DB Bahn Urban was responsible for the operational control and supervision of all companies in the division, stopped this but even no interests. Parent company of the companies is the DB Regio AG, which also operates the not for Urban Transport business unit belonging to S-trains in the other regions.
The Berlin S-Bahn and S- Bahn Hamburg as a former part of the DB city traffic were assigned on March 1, 2010, the DB Regio AG. This was done in response to problems of the S -Bahn in Berlin.
DB city traffic has emerged from the post- travel services of the former German Federal Post Office and the Bahnbusdiensten the former German Federal Railways. In the late 1970s the two were gradually merged. It created the regional bus companies. Today they form the core of the bus division of DB city traffic.
Every day, took more than three million passengers use the buses and suburban trains of DB city traffic. DB Bahn Urban operated a fleet of approximately 4,300 owned and leased another 6,000 vehicles. The company had established partnerships with more than 1,500 small and medium-sized bus companies. In 2007, the suburban trains and buses provided a transport capacity of about 13.3 billion passenger kilometers. 48 percent of the passengers of the Deutsche Bahn are buses and commuter trains go.
The company operated 12,500 buses (as of 2008). According to the company, the leading provider of public transport was on the road. Its market share in this area in 2007 was nine percent.
On 1 October 2006, Herrmann Graf von der Schulenburg, replacing Andreas Meyer, was appointed as Managing Director. 2007 generated approximately 12,000 employees generated sales of 1.8 billion euros and a profit of 166 million euros.
On 31 December 2010 DB city traffic was dissolved and annexed the bus business at DB Regio AG. This was justified by the companies in the year 2010 acquisition of Arriva by the German railway as well as with the EU Regulation 1370/2007, which for the time being prevents the entry into local urban transport.
Bus companies
At DB city traffic included the following 22 bus companies, which in turn have majority interests in other bus companies ( indented ).
- Auto Power GmbH (Kiel) Heider Stadtverkehr (Heather )
- Pan Bus ( Viborg / Denmark)
- Berlin Linien Bus GmbH (Berlin)
- City bus Minden ( Minden )
- City bus Herford ( Herford )
- Transport of East Westphalia GmbH ( NVO ) ( Münster)
- BRN city bus GmbH ( Ludwigshafen, Germany)
- Rheinpfalzbus GmbH ( Ludwigshafen, Germany)
- Regional traffic Euregio Maas -Rhein GmbH ( RVE ) ( Aachen )
- Regional traffic Niederrhein GmbH ( RVN ) ( Wesel )
- Regional and urban transport Bayern GmbH (RSB ) ( Nuremberg)
- KOB GmbH ( KOB ) ( Oberthulba )
- Southwest Mobil GmbH (Mainz)
- Friedrich Müller Omnibus Company GmbH ( Schwäbisch Hall )
- Bus operation Haller GmbH ( Walsrode )
- Sumava bus s.r.o. ( Zelezna Ruda / Czech Republic)
- A. Philippi GmbH in January 2013 as the Saar -Pfalz- mobile ( Bexbach, earlier in Quierschied )
- Regional traffic Allgäu GmbH (RVA ) ( Oberstdorf)
- Rhein- Westerwald- transport ( RWN ) ( Montabaur )
- Rheinhunsrückbus ( rhb ) ( simmering )
- Hanekamp Busreisen GmbH ( Cloppenburg )
- Circular path Aurich Public Transportation GmbH (Aurich ) Transport companies Wiesmoor ( Wiesmoor )
- Bus Ruhr- Sieg GmbH (BRS ) ( Meschede )