Movia (transit agency)
Dorthe Pedersen Nøhr, Director
Buses in Copenhagen, next to metro and S -tog, the third transport means of the Danish capital and its capital region Hovedstadsområdet. The oldest bus in Copenhagen including the surrounding region were operated with horse buses. The history of these lines goes back to the 19th century.
- 3.1 horse bus
- 3.2 Københavns Sporveje
Current bus routes in the capital region
Since 1 January 2007 Trafikselskabet Movia is the operator of the Copenhagen bus traffic.
General lines
Line numbers without a letter ( eg line 18) are general lines. They can be found everywhere in the city and surrounding area and drive to fixed schedule.
A -bus
The O buses (eg 1A or 3A) follow the main traffic routes. They have a no fixed timetable, but run by an adjusted according to time and place of variable clock. The shortest cycle is 3 minutes. The characteristic color of the A- bus is red. The front door area and the left side of the tail is deducted accordingly color on vehicles in Movia. The relief lines to distinguish from a greater distance apart by a visual indication already, has been used in the trams Copenhagen. Here each line panel had an individual color pattern.
S -bus
On the lines of rapid bus network ( eg, line numbers 150S or 200S ), S- drive buses. Do not stop at all stations as O buses. Their distinctive color is blue.
E -bus
The fastest lines are operated by express buses ( Ekspresbus ). In contrast to S- buses they operate usually only on weekdays and at peak times. The line numbers (eg 173E or 330E ) have a trailing E and are marked in green. They were called to 1989 Hurtig buses ( hurtig = fast), indicated by a H by route number.
N -bus
Night traffic in Copenhagen use the N buses.
Havnebussen
On the inland waterways of the capital's port region between the Sound and the Køge Bugt circulate water bus lines. Currently in three compounds are operated, their vehicles are just like the buses on land provided with the uniform ocher Movia coloring.
More Lines
For seniors and people with disabilities operate service buses. These are minibuses that are used on routes for example, with a slope to allow there the mobility of these people, their line numbers begin with 84, for example, 847 or 848 Tele buses taxis are similar vehicles that may be posted or ordered by phone. They are equipped with 82 and a third digit, for example, 820 or 828, marked.
Rolling stock
Until the mid- 1990s came most of the buses of manufacturing companies in Denmark. Well-known local companies were Karrosseri Aabenraa A / S and Dansk Automobil Construction Association A / S ( DAB) in Aabenraa and Silkeborg. Here also articulated buses under the name Leyland -DAB were made that arose from a collaboration with the British Leyland Motors Limited.
Current manufacturer of the buses are mainly Volvo and Scania, at the end of the 1990s, parts of the Danish production facilities were sold. The water buses are from different shipyards. Currently these are the Westers Mekaniska AB in Uddevalla and the Lübeck BalTec Werft GmbH.
History
Bus conductor Copenhagen KS Line 19, 1937.
Bus of the Copenhagen line 33H ( urtig ) with HT ( Hovedstadsområdets Trafikselskab ) logo.
Copenhagen Culture Night bus of the tram museum with HT logo.
Omnibus
By 1840, there were already several solid horse bus and coach lines. One led from Amager Square in downtown on Vesterbrogade to Frederik Runddel. But in 1863 opened the first tram that connected with Frederiksberg Copenhagen, ushering in an up to the 1970 -year-long development, the only zuwies a complementary role of the metropolitan transport bus connections. The commissioning of the first bus with engine in 1913, did not stop. The transport by bus and coach horses was set on 27 July 1917. Your traction was then exclusively motor driven.
Københavns Sporveje
Whether there was a competition or to what extent this led to a massive displacement, is not provable. Strikingly, however, is that many private transport companies tried in Copenhagen and his then-suburbs in the business of carriage of passengers, but outlasted their existence on average for more than 10 years. From 1911 only one company, the municipal tram company Københavns Sporveje (KS ) operating almost the entire public transport in the capital region in the urban area. With 14 tram lines, plus some own bus passenger transport was mainly done by the KS- tram in Copenhagen this year. Only with the gradual closure of the tram from 1965 to 1972, the proportion of bus services on the volume of traffic increased significantly. The Københavns Sporveje replaced until 1972, the last tram year many trams with buses, often without altering the route number, so that the routing of the lines of the 2, 3, 5, 11 and 18 to the present still largely those of the former tram corresponds.
1974 took over the KS buses and their connections which was founded through the merger of several local businesses in the capital region new transport companies, the Hovedstadsområdets Trafikselskab ( HT). By an even larger merger of several transport companies throughout the metropolitan region and adjacent regions of Zealand was formed in 2007, the current operating company Trafikselskabet Movia.