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Co-operation forms in the OEPNV
Co-operation forms in the verkehrsgewerbe (e.g. OEPNV)
© Uwe Losse last updating 2006-10-21
Tariff community
Mutual acknowledgment of the tickets
Traffic communities
Traffic network
In the public passenger traffic co-operation are particularly far common. There are and are enough co-operation in different stages from looser Co-operation up to the occurrence as Transporting enterprise. Here now the different co-operation forms in the ÖPNV are described such as tariff communities, traffic communities and traffic groups:
The smallest form of a co-operation is the mutual acknowledgment of tickets. One finds these conditions repeatedly on line sections, which become several concession owners at the same time driving on. Each agent is entitled a certain
To drive distance section, e.g. from the central Bus station (ZOB) to the vocational training center. At this constellation herschen every now and then Operating prohibitions for the individual Konzesionär (Transporting enterprise), it leads to the fact that many vehicles itself the same finite quantity of pupils (or general passengers) divide.
Transporting enterprises look for economical solutions. By the mutual acknowledgment of the tickets can the travels on the agents involved be divided. Thus custom e.g. not all Transporting enterprises the 4. Hour or the 8. Hour to serve (school hour). In the case of this “mutual acknowledgment of Tickets " there are mostly none Compensations among themselves. All involved Approximately the same portion and the incomes of the tickets, those keeps borders acquired to everyone with it become.
At a tariff community the transporting enterprises involved in the price and Tarifgestaltung co-operate very closely. , The tariffs are tried too harmonieren.
The advantage is with together served Distance sections that no price fight develops, but the passenger always the same price of transportation it pays. The price with Verkehrsunternehmer A is on an equal footing the price of the Verkehrsunternehmers B. However both (or still more) transport enterprises work on own calculation. Each transporting enterprise must be able independent to be approved the tariff from the respective authorizing agency and operates its own Sales systems. A mutual acknowledgment of tickets is not here given. A passenger can do with the ticket which it with the Verkehrsunternehmer A acquired, not with the Verkehrsunternehmer B to drive.
At a traffic community the transport enterprises involved unite and step together outward as a transporting enterprise on (at least with the same LOGO, e.g. On behalf the “Name_Verkehrsgemeinschaft”). The traffic community turns the same tariff is also uniform layout organization of tickets on and repeatedly, Timetables, etc. available. The involved Transport enterprises are however completely independent and must the tariff to be approved be able, mostly remain the incomes with the transporting enterprise, which converts them. Sometimes is there agreed upon within the range of the timetable, this is however not always given. With distances those to be served together, gives it often internal accounting arrangements, does not have to however not be.
The traffic group is the closest form of co-operation in the ÖPNV. Transact in a group Transport enterprises give here their tariff sovereignty up. The traffic group prescribes the tariffs and the co-ordination transfers in the tuning that Timetables, takes over the tasks of selling and the marketing measures.
The transporting enterprises in a traffic group divide the incomes after one in hard fights formed distributor. The allocation of income can take place thereby grundsätlich according to different criteria, after number of the performed vehicle kilometers, or seat kilometers. In addition, the quality of the assigned vehicles, or “old possession conditions” plays a large role with such procedures of allocation of income. If e.g. a transporting enterprise has lucrative line, it would not like to keep less afterwards.
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