MOBI – New Flexibility for Dresden Bike and Car Sharing Supplement Tram and Bus Services VIELFALT ERLEBEN
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Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG customer magazine 3/2018 MOBI – New Flexibility for Dresden Bike and car sharing supplement tram and bus services VIELFALT ERLEBEN. UNSERE MESSE-HIGHLIGHTS. FOREWORD 3 spielraum JAwort DIE SPIELEMESSE DIE HOCHZEITSMESSE 03 – 04 12 – 13 NOVEMBER JANUAR 2018 2019 3/2018 room+style aktiv+vital Dear readers, DESIGN | FASHION | ART | FOOD SPORT | GESUNDHEIT | WELLNESS 4 What moves you? Dresden is a growing city. Current predictions indicate that the 6 Top topic population will rise to 600,000 by 2030. The resulting increase in traffic volume will have a lasting impact on life in our city and 10 DVB services change the future of mobility. As a result, we are expanding 12 News our service for you, combining various modes of transport 04 – 06 and letting you use them flexibly. In the future, we want trams, 16 Allow us to introduce... 15 – 17 buses, rental bikes and cars to complement one another, not JANUAR MÄRZ 18 Down the line 2019 compete with one another. Learn more about this in our top 2019 topic starting on page 6. 22 Leo’s world 24 Active We also get you in the festive spirit for Christmas, give you a NEUE ArT DRESDNER chance to win tickets and books, go ‘Down the Line’ on tram 26 Through the Christmas DIE KUNSTMESSE OSTERN no. 7 and answer questions that have been moving you. season by rail and bus MIT INTERNATIONALER 27 Specialised route ORCHIDEENWELT We hope you enjoy reading this issue, and wish you safe network map: travel at all times in our yellow fleet. ‘Tis the season... 04 – 06 28 – 31 JANUAR MÄRZ 2019 2019 Julia Keller Available online in German and Multi-mobility Project Manager English at www. dvb.de/bewegt. messe-dresden.de 4 3/2018 WHAT MOVES YOU? 5 You ask. What moves you? We answer. What you always wanted to know about DVB. In this section, we answer some of the questions we received in recent weeks by post, e-mail, telephone or on our Facebook page. Perhaps you have always wanted to know the answer to one of the following questions too? I bought a 4-trip ticket in the DVB mobile app. Is the amount debited in one transaction? How do I activate the next trip? When you buy a 4-trip ticket, the full price is charged at once. Depending on the fare rate chosen, the corresponding Do the new ticket vending machines Can we leave our luggage at the Pra- number of trips is valid immediately. Later, also give change in notes? ger Straße Service Point again during when you want to use other trips of the 4-trip Advent? ticket you have already paid for, just choose Yes, our vending machines give € 5 the 4-trip ticket in the ticket shop as you did and € 10 notes as change. However, Tram or bus users on Christmas shop- when making the original purchase. However, they are not returned via the ticket tray, where ping trips don’t need to worry about you will not be charged for these trips, as you tickets and coins are issued, but via the note lugging heavy bags around again this year. have already paid for them. You will not have Is it true that the additional passenger payment slit. If you do not pick up the bank The Service Point on Prager Straße offers to pay until after you use the 4th trip. rules for my subscription monthly ticket notes within 30 seconds, they are retracted all passengers with a ticket valid for the day are valid during the week now? automatically. The vending machine logs in question free hand luggage storage from this process, and you have to reclaim your Monday to Friday until 7 pm and until 6 pm on Yes, that is correct. As of the fare change. To do so, please call our Customer Saturday. adjustment on 1 August 2018, the ad- Service at +49 (0)351 857-1011. ditional passenger rules have been updated for monthly tickets, 9 am monthly tickets and normal price job tickets. Since that date, you can bring along another adult and up to How to contact us four school children under the age of 15 on Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG weekdays between 6 pm and 4 am using DVB AG your ticket. You don’t need to do anything, or [email protected] pay extra, you can just travel as far as your Trachenberger Straße 40 ticket takes you. As before, the arrangement 01129 Dresden, Germany applies all day at the weekend and on public holidays. 6 3/2018 TOP TOPIC 7 What is MOBI? park between Ringstraße and MOBI makes it possible – St. Petersburger Straße. Six MOBI is the new DVB brand. tram lines and two bus lines Transition easily between A range of services poo- serve this stop. This MOBI- ling sustainable urban and punkt itself hosts 12 sz-bikes, environmentally friendly mobility four teilAuto cars, two charging trams, buses, rental bikes services like trams, buses, rental points for electric vehicles and one bicycles and cars, as well as charging public bicycle pump. Two of the shared and car sharing services points for electric cars in a single location, cars are electric vehicles. the MOBIpunkt, allowing rapid transitions What form will mobility take in future? How can we reconcile rising between means of transport. The MOBIpunkt traffic volumes with sustainable mobility, making cities more liveable? at Pirnaischer Platz is the first of six pilot locations (Bahnhof Mitte, Altpieschen, P+R Our vision for the future is simple and highly flexible use of various, Prohlis, Fetscherplatz, Wasaplatz) and clearly environmentally friendly means of transport. identifiable by the column with the drop- shaped logo. MOBIpunkts as hubs for multi-mobility services The first MOBIpunkt is located at Pirnaischer Platz, right beside the north-south axis stop (stop for 3, 7, 12, 62, 75) on part of the car Using public transport, cycling and walking saves space, reduces emissions and is healthy. The goal with MOBI is to enhance the visibility of alternatives to using private cars Multi-mobility helps protect the environment We are heading up a group of local partners and encourage people to switch by making and makes cities more liveable, as popula- formed in Dresden to establish these mobility them easy to use. We are receiving financial tions and traffic volumes increase. Setting up points. Active participants are DREWAG - support from the National Climate Initiative mobility centres is therefore a key element of Stadtwerke Dresden GmbH with charging for the first mobility point and the five other municipal promotion of sustainable mobility. points for electric cars, DDV-Mediengruppe Together with Dresden’s pilot locations. As part of the Smart City/ On 21 September 2018, the City of Dresden’s with sz-bikes, teilAuto as a car sharing ope- citizens, we want to use the MAtchUP EU project, the users’ acceptance first MOBIpunkt was opened as part of the rator and transport association Verkehrsver- pilot locations to assess how and reactions will be surveyed and evaluated. 2018 European Mobility week. In the years to bund Oberelbe. The working group has given This practical experience will influence the im- come, a network of 76 mobility points is to be the vision of future mobility in Dresden a we can meet multi-mobility plementation of the remaining mobility points. put in place. They will allow Dresden’s citizens name: MOBI. requirements.” and visitors to the city to choose from a range Do you have questions, ideas or suggestions? of flexible mobility services. Julia Keller Write to us: [email protected] Multi-mobility Project Manager For more information see: www.dvb.de/mobi. 8 3/2018 TOP TOPIC 9 MOBI is for people who Car sharing Advantages for subscription You can pick up a shared car when customers think of the future you need one for a trip to a furniture store, or an individual weekend break. Just Our subscription customers enjoy reduced Sharing instead of owning is not a new idea. People who need to get register, book at any time around the clock rates when using bike and car sharing. from A to B without their own cars, especially young people, already and drive away – whether for just one hour or for a few days. There are 170 stations Bike sharing: sz-bike offers DVB subscri- know all about ride sharing and intercity bus services. We want to with 280 vehicles in Dresden. bers special low rates for bicycles: Your first apply this fundamental concept to daily mobility with MOBI. 30 minutes are free! From the 31st minute, How to rent a car: you save no less than 50 percent compared with the standard fare. Rental is charged by 1. Register on www.teilauto.net, create 30-minute periods. a user account and then present your driver’s license and ID card in a DVB or DVB subscriber rates: teilAuto Service Centre, and activate your account. • Your first 30 minutes are free • Each additional 30 minute period: € 0.50 2. Then you can book your car in the teilAuto • 24 hours = € 5 app, online or by telephone at a MOBI- punkt or teilAuto station. Car sharing: We have also secured exclu- sive rates with our partner teilAuto. 3. You can open the car easily with your teilAuto customer card or the teilAuto app. DVB subscriber rates: 4. To return the car, bring it back to the car • Reduction of the deposit of € 100.00 Our MOBI services How to rent a bicycle: sharing station where you picked it up.