Issue , April 

The IVU Company Newsletter for Public Transport at any Price – Consequences of the Decision 2 of the European Court of Justice

SMS from the Bus Stop – the new Generation of Real-Time 3 Passenger Information

High Savings Potential Clearing the way for MICROBUS® 4 with MICROBUS Wide range of new functions for rail service requirements

Two German systems will operate on the and added rail service functions. resulted in enormous media discon- basis of the MICROBUS planning and scheduling system “The orders from Mannheim and tinuity as well as a great many man- from IVU Traffic Technologies AG. When the new Munich are a milestone for IVU,” ual interfaces and laborious data timetable went into effect in December, S-Bahn says IVU CEO Prof. Dr. Ernst Denert. entry work”, says Michael Wuth, München started using MICROBUS for operation plan- “MICROBUS used to be the market Managing Director of S-Bahn Mün- ning and scheduling. The newly established Rhein- leader for bus and municipal public chen GmbH.“We were very happy to Neckar public transport company also starts using transport companies, but we now replace all our old scheduling sys- MICROBUS and – in addition – the Qbase accounting have proof that our system is also tems with MICROBUS, which will and quality assurance system. an excellent choice for railway com- allow us to plan our service efficient- panies,” says Denert. ly in the future.” Two major German light rail opera- tors will schedule their trains and S-Bahn München GmbH also began S-Bahn München operates with Project news drivers with the help of the using the MICROBUS timetable and comprehensive capacity enhance- software company’s most popular vehicle scheduling functions when ment and reduction and splitting of product. With over 175 applications it switched its timetable in De- trains, frequent, regular departures “eurobahn” launches in Europe, the MICROBUS system is cember. Duty scheduling will be fol- and a great many special services. vending system the most successful planning and lowing in a second phase. In the The Munich company will begin run- scheduling system for public trans- future, MICROBUS will schedule a ning trains 10 minutes apart on Rhenus Keolis, a leading private railway operator in port companies. “We are delighted total of 191 trains – and as many as some lines in 2004. The universal , has been using AFA® 420 mobile ticket vending that we will be able to use the most 214 when the 2005 timetable goes MICROBUS planning and scheduling machines and the new i.box pda ticket vending system advanced scheduling system for the into effect, with trains running 10 system immediately gives S-Bahn based on PDA computers for the past few weeks. Rhenus most advanced light rail service in minutes apart. It will also handle up München GmbH a complete solu- Keolis markets its products and services under the brand Germany”, says Bernhard Weisser, to 650 drivers on the 442-kilometer tion for timetable and vehicle sched- name “eurobahn”. The stationary ticket vending system member of the Managing Board of light rail network, the largest of its uling, personnel scheduling, vehicle i.box counter will go into operation soon. Rhenus Keolis is S-Bahn RheinNeckar. kind in Germany. dispatching and depot management using the new devices as additional equipment in its as well as rostering. existing IVU AFAB® ticketing system. “The quality of our Over the past year, IVU has substan- “Our old IT landscape was a collec- services in Germany is a top priority for us, which is why tially refined MICROBUS to meet the tion of different IT applications run- we chose IVU as an important supplier,” says Henrik special needs of railway operators ning on a variety of systems, which Behrens, Managing Director of Rhenus Keolis.

RheinNeckar’s new light rail system goes into service Formula  for buses and in Commemoration in Mannheim Essener Verkehrs-AG uses IVU’s entire IT platform: MICROBUS plans operating procedures, while BON moni- tors them; the i.box computer uses digital radio commu- Speyer and Karlsruhe via Ludwigshafen, Mannheim nications to collect data during operation and controls and Heidelberg. The four light rail routes cover a dis- other on-board equipment in the vehicle. BON.tip sup- tance of 240 kilometres and serve 61 stations. A total of plies passengers with up-to-the-minute information €450 million was invested in the new light rail system. gathered from the vehicle monitoring system while BON.qm performs statistical analyses on the operating data and supplies the information to the next planning phase. EVAG’s depot is also part of the data cycle: The BON.tms system automatically reports equipment faults from i.box to the depot via radio links. By the time the train arrives at the depot, the mechanics already know what to do. It’s almost like Formula 1.

Cologne City Transport KVB: online information on duty schedules

Cologne City Transport KVB has been using MICROBUS to plan operations for years. They are now adding a driver information system developed by IVU to the existing duty On Saturday, 13 December 2003, all four branches of the and personnel scheduling system. The drivers log onto new RheinNeckar light rail system organised rallies central terminals by entering their personal ID numbers converging on Ludwigshafen am Rhein for the main and passwords. There they can not only retrieve their “Motion & Emotion” launch event at the Walzmühlen schedules directly from the personnel scheduling system, Centre (see photos). Celebrations took place simul- but also enter requests for future rotations. The solution taneously at the stations in Kaiserslautern, Speyer, offers the following advantages: more immediate access Bruchsal and Osterburken. The new RheinNeckar light for drivers and less work for operations inspectors – plus rail replaces Deutsche Bahn’s train service between all information is always up-to-date thanks to the Kaiserslautern and Osterburken as well as between MICROBUS database. Issue ,2 April 

The difficulty of determining “appropriate” costs and the Letter from the Management Board consequences of the decision of the European Court of Justice Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear IVU customers, Public transport at any price? It is our great pleasure to present you with the first issue of our new customer magazine entitled “Platform”. The many positive responses we received In its ruling on the Altmark Trans case, the European 4.) If no depreciation is taken, the service should cost.We calculate the from you about the prototype at the 2003 user’s con- Court of Justice decided that not all bus and rail sub- amount of the compensation must costs expected by the market, de- ference gave us the idea and obligation to begin pub- sidies are to be regarded as unlawful assistance. This be set in comparison to the cost of pending on the transport service, lishing this magazine quarterly, along with articles on is a good thing, for otherwise public transport service an average comparable public trans- desired quality and timetable. You our products, customers and industry. would lose its financial base. port company. can use these figures for budget planning, estimating depreciation We chose the name “Platform” because IVU is the only The decision therefore requires per- or evaluating offers. For this pur- system developer to offer customers a platform con- The decision also means that future formance-related payments with pose, we have developed special sisting of hardware and software solutions for all pub- government subsidies for public transparent cost comparisons. methods that allow us to precisely lic transport requirements, from planning and opera- transport will be difficult to obtain Municipal public transport compa- calculate the individual costs of spe- tions to management.These are systems that give you without competition and cost con- nies must prove that their cost-per- cific transport tasks in every region, support before your buses and trains leave the depot, trols. The European Court of Justice formance ratios are in order, which taking local parameters into while they are in service and after they return to the defines four criteria that must be brings up the following questions: account. depot. met in order for subsidies not to be 1.) How high should the costs be to considered unlawful assistance. meet non-profit obligations? 2.) Our systems also provide technical To develop a unique, integrated IT platform was no The author, How should the compensation be assistance in meeting the specified easy task for us, because public transport is very com- Dr. Olaf Schemczyk, 1.) The public transport company calculated? 3.) How much is a suit- verification obligations: planned plex. Urban services do not operate the same way as is a member of must fulfil clearly defined non-prof- able profit in relation to the service and actual data is compared, and regional services, whilst trains operate differently the Management it obligations. to be rendered? 4.) How high are the the monetary effects are calculated than buses. We know that you will need to network Board of IVU Traffic 2.) It must be possible to objectively costs of an average comparable using the Qbase public transport with other operators more intensively in the future. Technologies AG. and transparently the amount public transport company? management system or estimated That you must deal with pressure from the public sec- of the compensation. for future scenarios. Our optimisa- tor, requiring each investment to be scrutinised for its 3.) The compensation may not ex- Because IVU has many years of tion components also show how to potential to improve efficiency. That EU legislation ceed the cost of meeting the non- experience in calculating the costs make transport service more effi- requires public transport companies to “keep costs profit obligations, taking earnings of transport services, we can tell you cient without increasing personnel within reasonable limits”, whilst the priorities for pas- and a suitable gain into account. how much your public transport or vehicles. sengers are frequent service, trains and buses that run on time, low fares and reliable information.

Indeed, quite a lot of things had to be co-ordinated. In Documentation completed the 1970’s, IVU started out with a planning system that was tailored to the specific needs of Berlin Capital Transport BVG, at the same time developing IVU conference “IT in Public Transport” our best-selling system MICROBUS. Over the years we added applications for optimisation, journey planning, Volker Sparmann, managing direc- timetable data management and quality manage- tor of RMV in Frankfurt; and Andreas ment. In 2001, we took over TTi Systems AG, acquiring Graf von Arnim, CEO of BVG Berlin. In its enormous expertise in vehicle monitoring systems, the evening, IVU invited its guests to on-board computers and ticketing. the roof of the Parliament Building. The conference documentation is We gradually combined all systems into a single inte- available on request – just send an grated platform – a complete data cycle – and expand- e-mail to [email protected]. ed it for all public transport modes, at the same time making sure that individual parts of the platform work just as reliably in any other software environ- ment. Over 300 public transport companies from Dublin to Dubai already rely on our systems. This plat- form was an enormous challenge for us, and we are IVU invited the heads of the German EVAG in Essen; Uwe Stindt, Manag- very proud of it. And yet work goes on – with and for public transport companies to Berlin ing Director of VBB in Berlin and you. We hope you enjoy reading this magazine. Best last fall. For one day, the conference chairman of the Federal Consortium regards, participants discussed the ways in of Local Authorities; Prof. em. Jakob which information technology can Maurer of the Swiss Technical Col- The Management Board meet the challenges and opportuni- lege in Zurich; Prof. Martin Grötschel Prof. Dr. Ernst Denert ties facing public transport service. of the Konrad Zuse Centre for Infor- Dr. Olaf Schemczyk The speakers were Albert Schmidt, mation Technology in Berlin; Rudolf Dr. Gero Scholz transportation spokesperson for the Althoff, CIO of Personenverkehr DB Alliance 90/Greens parliamentary Regio in Frankfurt; Dr. Heinrich Gan- coalition; Wolfgang Meyer, CEO of seforth, CEO of üstra in Hannover;

Important Dates BON® beats all records  Public Transport Computer-based vehicle monitoring system implemented in Aachen and Jena at record speed User’s Conference with private viewing An IVU project team introduced the The new BON vehicle monitoring BON vehicle monitoring system at system retains all functions of the of the Blue Mauritius Jenaer Nahverkehrsgesellschaft previous system. New features mbH (JeNah) and Aachener Stra- include user-specific interface set- IVU’s next PT user’s conference will ßenbahn und Energieversorgungs- tings, stored forms for operating take place on 24 and 25 February 2005 AG (ASEAG) in record time. In Jena, disturbances, protocols for differ- in Berlin. The date was postponed six only six months passed between ent reporting categories such as months to avoid conflicting with the time the specifications were operations manager and garage InnoTrans in September 2004. The released and the new system was protocols as well as the ability to conference hotel is still to be an- placed into service. accept taxi requests from passen- nounced. For our evening entertain- gers via radio communications. ment, we managed to book the Com- Both public transport companies Later this year, Jena will receive an munications Museum, where you had no trouble supplying the new upgrade for a crossing time con- can see the Blue Mauritius, the vehicle monitoring system with trol function for monitoring sin- world’s most famous postage stamp, data from the MICROBUS plan- gle-track sections of the light rail in a private viewing. Further informa- ning system. In addition, both cus- network specifically for the early tion is available on our Web site at tomers were able to continue detection of service disruptions www.ivu.de. using existing radio communica- due to delays. tions with the IVU on-board com- puters without having to upgrade. Issue3 , April 

New marketing tool for public transport operators Management amplified Dr. Gero Scholz brings new energy SMS from bus and light rail stops to the management board of IVU

IVU Traffic Technologies AG has times more efficiently, shortens over- The 47-year-old IT mana- Dr. Scholz has many implemented a system for Berliner all travel times and provides a percep- ger with Dresdner Bank years of experience as Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) that provides tion of punctuality, thereby increas- joins the Berlin software an executive in the real-time operating data for each of ing passenger satisfaction. BVG has company, where he will fields of software de- the over 9,500 bus and light rail stops developed “Fahrinfo SMS”, a new tool be in charge of product velopment and project in the German capital. for journey planning based on the development. management. After DAISY system that supports personal studying operations As of 19 February, Berliners can dialog with customers and targeted IVU’s Supervisory Board research and logistics retrieve the actual departure times marketing. In the beginning phase, appointed Dr. Gero Scholz at the Munich Ludwig for all bus and light rail stops in the every customer receives, along with to the Management Maximilians Univer- city by SMS. All they have to do is the requested information, a cash- Board, effective 1 February sity, he spent ten years transmit the number of a stop to the equivalent coupon that can be 2004. with the Munich-based software BVG from their mobile phones, and redeemed at all Cinemaxx theatres in company sd&m AG. His duties they receive the actual arrival times Berlin. The business administrator was included managing major software of the next train or bus in reply. media. In the future, passengers will recently Chief Information Officer projects for Deutsche Bahn and Displays also providing information be able to obtain information about “It makes us more than a little proud (CIO) within the Transaction Bank- Lufthansa. He also established the on actual operating data will be the traffic situation, disruptions and to have put our passenger informa- ing division of Dresdner Bank and company’s Financial Information installed in about 60 locations in the delays in real-time on all light rail and tion systems expertise to work in the managed a major project for equi- Systems division. city. The system is available on the bus routes, just as they can do today world’s largest computer-based vehi- ties transaction. In his earlier capac- Internet too. on the subway. This is a great advan- cle monitoring systems for buses and ity as head of the IT department, Dr. As the new member of IVU’s Mana- tage, especially on routes with long light rail”, commented IVU CEO Prof. Scholz was responsible for the gement Board, Dr. Gero Scholz will The “DAISY” project, which BVG CEO waits between buses and trains or for Dr. Ernst Denert on the sidelines of development of many IT applica- be in charge of developing the com- Andreas Graf von Arnim presented to leisure traffic. the press conference. The successful tions of the third-largest German pany’s software platform for all pub- the press, is based on an IVU system implementation of the DAISY system, bank. “I am happy both personally lic transport requirements. His pri- that not only provides passengers “We are delighted to be able to offer he added, shows how IVU has turned and for IVU that we were able to orities will be to increase software with timetable data, but also allows this innovative system to our cus- into a provider of complete hardware attract as outstanding an IT expert development efficiency and further them for the first time to obtain oper- tomers”, said BVG CEO Andreas Graf and software solutions for all public as Gero Scholz,” says IVU CEO Prof. improve IVU’s systems. Dr. Scholz ating data directly from the control von Arnim, adding that the system transport requirements, from plan- Dr. Ernst Denert. will also give the systems a definite centre via a variety of information makes it easier to plan departure ning and operations to management. international orientation. Innovation in transportation and beyond. Getting ready IVU delivers election systems for European elections as well for competition as regional and local elections in – Germany Essener Verkehrs-AG and Essener Versorgungs- Breakthrough for the system that proved its merit in in the 2002 parliamentary elections and adapt it to the und Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (EVV) form Germany’s 2002 parliamentary elections. The first step European election procedure, adding new election prepa- toward a “virtual ballot box” in Saarland. ration functions and a completely new Internet module a new mobility service provider named Abellio for posting the results on the Internet. The Federal Election Commissioner has asked IVU Traffic Technologies AG to deliver an election processing sys- The same system will also be used in Saarland, the first tem for the European elections on 13 June 2004. The German state to choose IVU’s innovative solution. As a Berlin software company had previously developed a sys- new feature, individual polling stations will be connected tem for Germany’s 2002 parliamentary elections that directly to the system, enabling local election boards to collected the results from the different locations, auto- enter results into the system immediately after the votes matically collated and evaluated them, determined the have been counted. In a first phase, the Saarland State distribution of seats and displayed the outcome. On 5 Election Commissioner plans to network roughly sixty September 2004, the German state of Saarland will also polling stations in the city of Saarbrücken with the IVU use IVU’s system to determine the outcome of the system. European elections as well as its own regional and local elections taking place on the same day. The Saarland election system will also have interfaces to electronic voting machines, allowing the results to be “These two orders are a breakthrough for our election transferred from the “virtual ballot boxes” directly to the system”, says IVU CEO Prof. Dr. Ernst Denert, adding that election system. During a pilot test roughly forty voting no other company can match IVU’s technology or posi- machines will be integrated. The system will also be tion in this demanding and high-security segment of the made available to all Saarland municipalities for record- e-government market. IVU will enhance the system used ing and evaluating their mayoral elections.

Essener Verkehrs-AG (EVAG) and transport market over the long Interview with Uwe Friedrich Essener Versorgungs- und Verkehrs- term. gesellschaft mbH (EVV) are breaking new ground in the transport mar- “It is essential that Germany’s for- ket. As early as some years ago, mer municipal public transport Continuous data flow EVAG separated its purchasing and companies position themselves to operations segments by founding hold their own ground against Interview with Uwe Friedrich, man- already using radio technology and WAP functions to our real-time pas- its own operating company on the major European competitors over aging director of Jenaer Nahver- on-board computers from IVU. In senger information system. local level. In a second phase, a the long term”, says Wolfgang kehrsgesellschaft. addition, we could continue to use transport operating company was Meyer, managing director of Abellio the outstanding database of our How do the integrated AVL functions established on a regional level for and former member of the Essen Why was the time frame so narrow MICROBUS planning system, which for quality control and passenger the cities of Essen, Mülheim and EVAG Management Board. “By join- for introducing the new vehicle allowed our employees to draw on information benefit your company? Oberhausen. At rail#tec, Wolfgang ing forces with our network part- monitoring system? all the experience they had gained in It gives us a truly continuous data Meyer, former member of the EVAG ners, we want to offer single-source We constructed a new building on using the “old” computer-based flow from MICROBUS planning and Management Board, introduced transport services, gain new market our company premises for our vehicle monitoring system. operations control to performance Abellio, the newly established com- shares and secure existing ones.” control centre. The old building is analysis. But above all, our passen- pany. In addition to operations, it Abellio offers smaller public trans- located on land where track systems What further steps do you plan to gers will benefit from improved will also handle consulting services port companies the opportunity not for our light rail trains are being take in this project? information services in the future. as well as technical system solu- only to keep the same operating site planned. The condition for the AVL This year, we will introduce a wire- The ability to supply data quickly and tions and service functions for pub- and brand, but also add additional project was therefore clear: the new less LAN for supplying data to the easily via wireless LAN allows us to lic transport companies. This is activities in public transport busi- system had to go into service in vehicles. We will replace the existing respond quickly to service disrup- EVAG’s response to increasing liber- ness segments. Abellio will help its the new control centre by the end on-board computers in the buses tions. We expect the real-time pas- alisation in the public transport customers prepare Europe-wide of 2003. with IVU’s new i.box and implement senger information system to fur- market. Transport experts estimate tenders on-site and make needed a method for securing inter-service ther increase customer satisfaction that only around ten to fifteen com- adjustments to structures as well as How did you manage it? connections with Deutsche Bahn. In among the passengers of Jenaer panies will be able to position offer systems and services. For more We were fortunate in that we were 2005, we plan to add Internet and Nahverkehrsgesellschaft mbH. themselves in the German public information: www.abellio.de Issue ,4 April 

Interview with Martin Müller-Elschner IVU goes to the French Alps “International business drives growth” Success for the new combined duty and From Dublin to Dubai vehicle scheduling programme IVU is expanding its inter- and smooth the way for our plan vehicle deployment and duties national sales organisa- products. We therefore plan in a single step and, thus, to achieve tion to open up new mar- to further expand our part- substantial savings potentials. The ket potential. Since early ner network and penetrate integrated duty and vehicle schedul- in the year, Martin Müller- farther into Asia as well as ing programme also takes into ac- Elschner has been strongly closer to home in Spain, Por- count regulations concerning breaks involved in the further tugal and the new EU mem- and duty duration. In addition to the promotion of IVU products ber states. integrated duty and vehicle schedul- in the international mar- ing features, the Grenoble company ket. He heads the Public Transport How important is the first major will use the modules to optimise division of IVU Traffic Technologies AG order from France? these functions. All of the company’s in Berlin. It is enormously important, for win- seven depots will be connected to ning this contract in Grenoble means the new scheduling system. What opportunities does internation- that IVU will be taken seriously in the al business offer? French market, which is sure to help us VFD Autocars is a public corporation Our foreign subsidiaries cover a terri- gain ground among the large French of the Isère département and oper- tory that is twice the size of Germany, groups of Connex, Keolis and Transdev, ates most of its regional transport Austria and Switzerland combined. all of which are controlled from Paris. service. From Grenoble and six addi- However, they have contributed less Berlin software company delivers its market, which I believe has enormous tional depots, the company operates than ten percent of our revenues to What products are most in demand MICROBUS® planning and sched- potential.” Denert also described the bus routes to a number of France’s date. We can and must do a great deal abroad? uling system to large regional trans- move as a further success for the most popular ski areas as well as to more in this area. In my view, interna- Our challenge is to market not only port company in Grenoble. newly developed combined duty and nearby cities, especially the major tional business will play an essential our best-selling MICROBUS product vehicle scheduling programme. metropolitan centre of Lyon. One role in driving growth over the next abroad, but also computer-based vehi- The VFD Autocars public transport route follows the famous Napoléon few years. cle monitoring and ticketing systems. company based in Grenoble, France, VFD will introduce the timetable, Route through the French Alps to The stakes are much higher there. Yet has chosen the MICROBUS® plan- vehicle and duty scheduling modules Nice. The Grenoble-based company Does this mean that IVU will set up by winning the tender in Carrara, our ning and scheduling software. IVU’s in an initial phase. Over the past few will use MICROBUS® to plan and additional international branch offices? Italian branch office demonstrated Paris branch office was hired to years, IVU has substantially enhanced schedule the deployment of 400 Not necessarily. After all, the examples that we can win the hand. Our IT plat- install the system. the system to meet the special needs vehicles and 600 drivers. VFD, which of Dubai and Bangkok demonstrate form puts us in an excellent position of regional transport service. transports nearly 15,000 school chil- how successful international business to meet all public transport require- “This first major project for our new dren every day, will also use MICRO- with partners can be. In both cases we ments, and we have gained extensive French subsidiary is very good news”, The combined duty and vehicle BUS® to schedule school bussing were able to build upon reliable sales experience in handling international says IVU CEO Prof. Dr. Ernst Denert.“It scheduling programme enables re- service throughout the region, start- partners who know local customers projects. is a milestone for us in the French gional public transport companies to ing with the next school year.

TWM selects MICROBUS-map High savings potential

The stops were already present in the Simplifying the Planning MICROBUS database which made with MICROBUS® the set up quick and straightforward, Process in Birmingham with IVU getting the module up and IVU delivers planning and scheduling system to Chemnitz, Germany running in a matter of days. After One of the UK’s largest bus operators, some intensive training for the Travel West Midlands, recently start- schedulers and managers the entire ed using MICROBUS-map as an inte- operation is now able to visualise the gral part of it’s planning and schedul- network and plan accordingly using ing process. The Birmingham based the combined Vector and Raster operator with over 1800 vehicles and maps, provided by IVU, for use with 5000 drivers will use MICROBUS-map the map module. to visualise its traffic network and reduce the impact of constantly According to TWM the introduction changing routes and stop locations. of the map module will shorten The city of Birmingham is undergoing the planning process to half the a transformation with the road net- time currently taken to plan a new New brochure work changing on an almost daily route. The daily operation of tem- The platform for all public basis. For TWM this creates a problem porarily moving stops and diverting because it’s 16000 bus stops are reg- routes is now also achievable in just transport requirements ularly moving location. a few clicks. MICROBUS strengthens its leadership formed manually. CVAG also ordered IVU offers its customers an integrat- position in the European market. components for optimising its duty ed IT platform for all public transport and vehicle scheduling. requirements, from planning and Chemnitzer Verkehrs-Aktiengesell- operations to management for pub- schaft implements the MICROBUS The company will also use lic transport services. All platform system and expects its investment MICROBUS to draw up timetables services are clearly summarised in a to translate into substantial savings. for its subsidiary City-Bahn, whose brochure. To receive a personal copy, “We believe that MICROBUS will routes have extended CVAG’s munic- e-mail us at [email protected]. help cut our overall costs by up to ipal service to the area surrounding five percent by optimising vehicle the Saxon city for the past year and a and personnel deployment,” says half, based on the “Chemnitz Model”. Imprint Uwe Leonhardt, director of ope- The planning data will also be trans- Published by rations at Chemnitzer Verkehrs- ferred from MICROBUS to existing IVU Traffic Technologies AG Aktiengesellschaft (CVAG) and man- on-board computers and the com- Bundesallee 88, 12161 Berlin, Germany aging director of City-Bahn Chem- puter-supported vehicle monitoring Phone +49.30.8 59 06-0 Winners of our reader survey nitz GmbH. system via a standard interface. In E-Mail: [email protected] addition, MICROBUS will supply trav- www.ivu.de Michael Mißlitz, vice operations GmbH, Udo Griebsch, The public transport company of el information for the Internet and manager of Usedomer Bäderbahn, Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG, Dirk this historical industrial city situated CVAG’s passenger information as IVU Traffic Technologies (UK) Ltd. is the grand prize winner of our Neurath, Kasseler Verkehrs-Gesell- at the foot of the Erzgebirge moun- well as timetable information for Phone +44 (0)121 767 1812 reader survey. Over the winter, he schaft AG, Rainer Hack, Offenbacher tains will migrate its deployment the integrated transport system of E-mail: [email protected] frequently took his new digital cam- Verkehrs-Betriebe GmbH, Mr. Röthe, planning system to MICROBUS by Central (VMS). Editorial staff era on the road in Heringsdorf and Scalar Wittenberger Omnibus- the middle of the year and com- Gerd Henghuber, Head of surrounding areas (see photo). He verkehr GmbH, Axel Dörsmann, pletely replace the current schedul- Chemnitzer Verkehrs-Aktiengesell- Corporate Communications, also plans to add attractive digital Meininger Busbetriebs GmbH, Fritz ing system. In addition to timetable schaft, which celebrated 110 years of Kirsten Busch photos to Bäderbahn’s Web site and Wilhelm, Stadtwerke Passau, René and vehicle scheduling, the company electric railway service just a few Layout all its brochures. Other winners: Thein, Service des Transports en will introduce the duty scheduling weeks ago transports roughly 40 Studio Quitta, Munich Manfred Hellinger, Österreichische Commun de la Ville de Luxembourg and rostering modules, thereby million passengers a year on 5 light Printed by Postbus AG received an MP3 player. and Bela Bergemann of Nord- streamlining its duty scheduling rail and 30 bus lines in a network Ruksaldruck, Berlin Gift baskets went to Mr. Brandt, Ostsee-Bahn GmbH. functions, which are currently per- with over 500 stops.