Havelbus

Dieter Schäfer

4.2 million km in the district of Potsdam- agent Mark, 4.7 million km in the district Havel country 1.9 million km in the city of Potsdam, 600,000 km of cross- county Verkehrdep1

Potsdam ( BVSG ) Werder ( BVSG ) Beelitz ( BVSG ) Stahnsdorf ( BVSG ) Falkirk ( HVGR ) Nauen ( HVGR ) Rathenow ( HVGR )

The Havelbus traffic mbH Potsdam (HVG ) is the largest transport company in the state of Brandenburg. It was founded on July 1, 1992, when the regional traffic from the VIP was separated. With 445 employees and about 198 buses it carries about 17 million passengers annually. Over 46,000 students and trainees are transported from the HVG daily. Since 2010, the ticket purchase with the debit card is possible in the buses. This also applies to monthly and weekly tickets. End of 2010, the redesigned TKS network ( Teltow- Kleinmachnow Stahnsdorf ) was put into operation. It includes the 10-minute bus service from T / K / S to Potsdam by the X1 and 601 as well as the very good internal connectivity within the TKS network. Altogether now operate 15 -day and 2 night lines by Teltow, Stahnsdorf and Kleinmachnow.

In 2012, the Havelbus Society is celebrating its 20th anniversary and surprised their passengers repeatedly with small gifts.

Havelbus offers to many regional events transfer services like every year for the blossoming season in Werder with a 20 -minute clock ( on the weekends ) between Werder and Potsdam, a transfer to the rock festival "Rock in Caputh " or separate bus rides to adventure farm in Klaistow. In addition Havelbus has a large tourism department.

Rolling stock

Havelbus introduced in 2008 as the first Brandenburg Transport Company buses the Polish company Solaris one. In addition to the Solaris Urbino 18 Solaris Alpino 8.9 and two Havelbus has, among other vehicles of the model Mercedes Benz Citaro O 530 N ( articulated bus ), G ( articulated ), L ( 3-axle bus) and the very rare O 530 K ( Midibus ). The predecessor of the current version of the O 405 is still used occasionally. Furthermore Havelbus also has carriage of MAN and Setra. The majority of the buses coming from EvoBus, which produces buses under the name of Mercedes -Benz. The end of 2012, the first two buses of the " Avenue LF" of the Turkish manufacturer Temsa were added to the fleet.

Overall Havelbus has 198 modern and predominantly disabled vehicles. Some exceptions are no low-floor buses and therefore not suitable for wheelchair users ( eg sometimes used MAN A 61). Around 107 buses are equipped with particulate filters and 47 of these meet the EEV standard, currently the strictest exhaust standards.

According Havelbus vehicles are bought with air conditioning since 2000 only.

From October 2012 it will be how to give each year, 15 new vehicles at Havelbus. Manufacturers are, inter alia, Mercedes -Benz, MAN and Solaris.