Company Profile
We are keeping the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan area moving
As a subsidiary of HSB, VBL, RHB, MVV Verkehr and MVV OEG, Rhine-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (RNV) has been operating its city and tram lines as well as its train and bus lines since 1 March 2005. With its public transportation offerings, RNV serves the region between the Palatine Woods and the Odenwald with its European metropolitan area, the "Rhine-Neckar region ". RNV also serves the market for bus service in the South Hessian region with its two subsidiaries, V-Bus GmbH and Beth GmbH.
RNV transported a total of nearly 161 million passengers in fiscal year 2006/07. This corresponds to around 879 million passenger kilometres, approx. 656 million thereof by rail and 223 million by bus. In the meantime, more than 149 000 customers make use of 12-month tickets. With over 200 trams and more than 200 buses, RNV has established itself as the most important provider of public mass-transit in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region.
RNV's objectives are to offer attractive mass-transit service in our region and to achieve this under economically optimum conditions. Even more attractive offerings are to be made available to our passengers.
This has only been feasible by means of consistent implementation of an ongoing restructuring programme. RNV looks upon competition as an opportunity and has directed all essential processes towards marketable cost structuring while at the same time focussing on stable levels of quality service.
These have been combined with an expansion of our rail network: The newly constructed "Mannheim East" and "Heidelberg-Kirchheim" lines were completed in time to go into operation when the new timetables went into effect on 10 December 2006.
The next milestones for RNV's forward-looking operations will be the introduction of a computer-aided tracking system (RBL), combined with centralised control stations and signal towers, optimising lines, service and loops, enhancing shop efficiency as well as reducing the number of reserve vehicles.
Ongoing restructuring measures permit us to hold our own in light of an ever-changing mass-transit market. RNV's structures are fundamentally directed towards doing justice to the demands of the recently enacted EU Directive and keeping public mass transit in Mannheim financeable and affordable. In light of the EU Directive, slight corrections will be necessary that have already been undertaken.