Rail replacement bus service

Rail replacement bus service (ETS ) or substitute bus traffic refers to the use of buses or taxis instead of rail vehicles such as trains, S-, U -, City- or trams. When Schienenersatzverkehr two types can be distinguished:

The classic rail replacement bus service will be for a short time as possible due to a malfunction ( also called emergency bus ) or used a planned construction project on a railway line. The rail replacement bus service is necessary in this case because no suitable for railway rail-bound detour route is available or omitted in a redirect budgets, which are served by the rail replacement bus service.

When permanent Schienenersatzverkehr the rail replacement bus service is not a temporary stopgap, but the follow-up operation of a railway line. In particular branch lines were treated with low-traffic connections, and are partly replaced by buses, because it is exactly reduce the input costs under certain circumstances. Because this comfort and cruise subside ( railway bonus ) goes through this measure, often the number of passengers so sharply that after a few years a rail replacement bus service into several short bus decomposed (solid lines are truncated to stitch lines), replaced by call lines or abandoned altogether.