Public transport in Frankfurt am Main

The public transport in Frankfurt am Main is (partly out of a U -Bahn ) by the transport bus, tram, light rail and commuter trains and regional trains as well as handled by taxis. Responsible for the coordination and purchase of transport services - with the exception of Taxis - in Frankfurt am Main is the traffiQ - Local transport mbH, insofar as it is purely an inner-city traffic or there are special agreements. The appointment and coordination of regional transport ( ie regional trains and S-Bahn ) is up to the Rhine - Main Transport Association ( RMV). Largest transport companies for local traffic in Frankfurt are the transport company Frankfurt am Main mbH ( VGF) and DB Regio AG. In city and regional bus area also are still the Hessian State Railways ( HLB), which belongs to Veolia Transport Alpina Rhein- Main, the in-the -City- Bus GmbH, Offenbach transport, the bus Sippel ( Netinera ) and the regional traffic Hesse-Cassel GmbH ( RKH ) operates.

S -Bahn

The Frankfurt S -Bahn was opened in 1978 and is running on most suburban lines where they have to share the tracks with freight, regional and long distance usually in the area of Frankfurt. In the city the S-Bahn running in a comprehensive seven stations tunnel, called the main line, which was built in 1978-1992. At the stations, the main railway station, the main station and Konstablerwache the original route is linked to the subway.

Between July 31 and August 18, 2006, the main route between Central Station and the main guard or Konstablerwache was first banned after 28 years of operation due to extensive renovation work for the entire S -Bahn. During this time all 30 turnouts and large amounts of gravel were exchanged to 1.4 kilometers of track length. The construction work required extensive schedule changes and an elaborate ventilation system to maintain the current partially in the same tunnel underground operation.

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Vorortbahnen

The Hessian Bahn GmbH (HLB ) operates in the west of the city of three S -Bahn -like suburban lines:

RMV line 12, Königstein Train: Hauptbahnhof- maximum - Königstein

RMV line 13, Sodener train: High -Bad Soden

RMV line 15, Taunusbahn: (Hauptbahnhof ) Bad Homburg - Gravenwiesbach - Brandoberndorf.

Depot with the main workshop and car wash for these three lines is Königstein. On all three lines 20 railcars of type VT 2E are used, eight of which since 1987 are owned by the FKE and twelve more to come with the acquisition of Taunusbahn. Since 2006, ten 41 - LINT railcar ride the trails.

Regional Transport

In the Rhine - Main Transport Association operate several regional express and regional rail lines, almost exclusively between the main station and destinations in the outer areas of the region, often over the network area beyond.

Also regional bus lines operate in Frankfurt. You have unique three - or four-digit line numbers in the RMV.

Bus

The first horse-drawn omnibus lines between Bockenheim and the Hanau Station, the forerunner to the Ostbahnhof on the Zobelstraße, via the main station and between the Westendplatz and the Offenbach train station (local station ) opened in 1863. A third line followed later between the main station and Bornheim. With the construction of the horses or tram lines to the end of the 19th century, the bus traffic has been reinstated.

In 1925, a bus service with eight buses were set up in Frankfurt again. With the incorporation in 1928 of the bus operation of the formerly independent city limit was adopted.

41 Central Station Airport ( 1953-1974 )
42 - Hauptbahnhof maximum color works ( 1954-1955 )
44 Goethe Place Northwest City ( 1965-1968 )
45 Roßmarkt / Taunus plant -Bad Homburg ( 1955-1960 )
46 Offenbach Hauptbahnhof- Kaiser Road ( 1953-1974 )

The line 44 was discontinued after the completion of the subway Frankfurt. On some lines, double-decker buses of the company Bussing were used. Express buses although there are long gone in Frankfurt, but in the tariff information of the Rhine -Main Transport Association dip the supplementary charge bus still on.

Night bus

In addition to the regular bus lines operate at night on Saturday, Sunday or on public holidays 1:30 to 3:30 clock night bus routes. In total, there are 25 lines. The 25 lines, of which 8 lines serve only the city of Frankfurt, drive through the regions of the Rhine- Main. The central node is the Konstablerwache where start and end most of the lines.

Since December 13, 2009 run every urban night bus every day, the night buses in the region on weekends and before public holidays. Under this schedule change also the night bus range has been expanded; there are now, inter alia, Hofheim am Taunus approached and Eppstein am Taunus.

Trolleybus

The history of Oberleitungsbusbetriebs in Frankfurt lasted only 15 years. Of January 6, 1944 to January 8, 1945 and from November 1 1948 to October 4, 1959 drove trolley buses on the line 60 of Heddernheim the last stop of the tram in Praunheim bridge. The reasons for the electrification of this important for the rush line were the precarious fuel shortage during the war and the possibility to use at both terminals power the tram.

In the neighboring city of Offenbach reversed from 1951 to 1972 the trolleybus Offenbach am Main, this consisted of three lines.

Tram

Frankfurt has since 1872 a standard gauge tramway. As was customary at this was initially operated as a horse track. From 1888, there was the steam trams of the Frankfurt Forest Railway and in 1884 one of the first electric trams in the world, operated by the Frankfurt- Offenbach tram company.

Today there are twelve in Frankfurt tram lines, including eight main lines, two reinforcing lines and special lines Apple Wine -Express. By 2013, the line Lizzie existed.

Existing trams Darmstadt | Frankfurt ( History · Vehicles · Museum · Apple Wine -Express · Lizzie ) | Mainz

Subway

The transport company Frankfurt am Main mbH operates since 1968 a metro network consists of three lines that intersect in the city center. On the outskirts share the routes, so that a total of nine lines can be distinguished. Two of the three routes operate in their aboveground sections as light rail, a line can be described as underground tram.

North of the city, the subway uses two former small railway lines, which reach into the suburban municipalities in Bad Homburg and Oberursel, the metro network are thus three cities involved.

Taxi

Also for public transport in Frankfurt include 1712 (February 2007) licensed taxis. In particular, during trade fairs is resorted heavily on this transportation. There are in the city area more than 100 taxi parking.

SkyLine

The SkyLine is an elevated railway on the Frankfurt am Main Airport, which connects the two big terminals together.

Planning

Regional tangent West RTW

With the planned Western Regional tangent the northern, western and southern suburbs of Frankfurt are to be connected via Frankfurt-Höchst and the airport. In this case, all S -Bahn lines, the subway line U1 and the Regional Airport Station will be linked. From Bad Homburg, Oberursel and the North West Centre -Frankfurt the new regional tangent West ( RTW) about Eschborn, Frankfurt-Höchst and Frankfurt Airport to routes into the center of Neu-Isenburg.

The Regional West tangent to operate as a combined operation with dual-voltage light rail cars on mostly existing railway and tram routes and on newly constructed addition lines. This is their implementation - despite the great distance Total length - very reasonably priced. Your job is primarily to strengthen the Tangentialverkehr and thus the passengers to avoid tedious and time-consuming detours in downtown Frankfurt. Earliest recording operation in 2018.

Regional east expressway

In the long term is to follow a tangent Regional East Regional tangent West. This is to Neu-Isenburg connect with on Bad Vilbel Offenbach, Frankfurt- Fechenheim and Frankfurt- Bergen- Enkheim. Here, especially the infrastructure of the Frankfurt tram should be shared.

Nordmainische route to Hanau

S -Bahn

It is planned to convert the nordmainische route (Frankfurt- Hanau Railway ) to S -Bahn operation. This requires an extension of the City Tunnel to Frankfurt Ostbahnhof be made, some were already running required for this construction ( grade- A or unloading, behind the Ostend road and the construction of the metro area in the East Railway Station ).

On the part of the passenger federations were strong objections to the nordmainische S -Bahn line, since they drive past at a distance on the development of cities valley and Hanau and thus the connection would not be much more attractive than the previous regional traffic despite their high cost of almost 300 million euros.

The eligibility of nordmainischen S -Bahn still could be detected in a cost-benefit analysis. Currently (2008) running negotiations on funding, continue to cause neighboring communities for measures to grade crossing elimination.

Two railway system

For this, the passenger federations have developed a supposedly cheaper and better alternative be tapped: A dual-system Stadtbahn Karlsruhe after model could share the existing Tramway in Frankfurt and go at Ostbahnhof on the regional rail line. On the one hand could be as a high-speed railway traffic over Hanau, we implement cost the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg or Bruchkoebel and Nidderau up to Friedberg, who could be better adapted to the actual demand, on the other hand, an inner-city development in valley and in Hanau was possible. This RegioTram network would have the proponents opinion a much larger opening at about the same cost as the S-Bahn. However, a cost-benefit analysis of a different type of variation of the U6 came to a different conclusion, so that at present two-system solution is not pursued in the official plans.

From April to December 2005, there was a test operation of a two- track system model with borrowed from Karlsruhe Stadtbahn cars. The tram Hanauer GmbH (HSB ) operating under the name Main line a trial operation between Hanau and Rüsselsheim. However, no system change took place in regular operation.

Subway

Another concept is the extension of the U6 from Fechenheim to Hanau as a two- system rail service to Karlsruhe model before - doing a decades- long dispute over an S -Bahn to Hanau or a subway to Fechenheim would finally be resolved, because the government wants only one of the two projects. fund While the countryside was more interested in the S -Bahn, Frankfurt wanted to first take the subway to Fechenheim or to Hanau with development Hanauer Landstrasse in operation - the consequence of the dispute is that so far none have been realized by both projects. Disadvantage here is that the development of Hanau and the Main is not unlike the S -Bahn possible, so that here the U -Bahn U6 can not play to their light rail moderate benefits as an integration of high platforms and consistently separate roadbed to the low would fail road cross sections in Hanau and valley. Furthermore, only one line system with its own Streckenast to service Main valley would be apt for it because of the resulting travel times, which would, however, require long stretches of tunnel for a good development.

Coloring

Until 1972 the buses and trams in Frankfurt were painted in ivory (RAL 1014). Only the light rail vehicles made with its red color with white belly band an exception. With the delivery of new streetcars and buses in 1972, the color scheme was pure orange (RAL 2004) / light ivory (RAL 1015) / beige gray ( RAL 7006 ) were introduced. In 1990 the first series of low-floor buses has been delivered to the former Stadtwerke Frankfurt, was chosen for its turquoise blue color the color of Subaru -vista -blue (no RAL color ) from. This color was to remain new vehicles reserved. Later, the outsourced from the public utility transport authority in Frankfurt am Main mbH took over the color as house paint and let repainted older cars. Private companies active in the Frankfurt transport used initially continue their house colors. The local transport company traffiQ developed a design specification in white-red. This decision was taken with the conspicuousness of the colors and the reference to the colors of the city of Frankfurt. This was amended by Decision of the City Council § 7594 of 15 July 2004, after which a uniform color for the Frankfurt transport in Subaru -vista -blue set, obsolete.

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