Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe
Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG (DVB) is the municipal transport company of the city of Dresden in Germany.
DVB operates twelve tram routes,[2] with a current total combined line length of 210 km (130.5 mi).
[7] In recent years, street running has been replaced by independent right-of-way arrangements wherever possible, and new extensions created in the same form.
In November 2008, a 2.8-kilometre (1.7 mi) extension of route 7 was opened from Gorbitz to Pennrich, in Dresden's south eastern suburbs.
[4][8][9][10] Unlike various other German cities of comparable size, no stadtbahn style tunnel sections or high platform stations have been created.
Routes 9 and 13 were realigned along a 1.1-kilometre (0.68 mi) section to provide better connections with regional trains at Dresden-Strehlen station in July 2019.
[15] Most of the trams operating in Dresden are articulated low floor cars, of two different basic designs, each of which has several variants.
The first generation of low floor cars was built by Deutsche Waggonbau (DW) in Bautzen between 1995 and 2002; both 6 and 8 axle variants exist.
The second generation of low floor cars have been built since 2003 by Bombardier Transportation, also in Bautzen, and are of that manufacturer's Flexity Classic design; both 8 and 12 axle variants exist.
[5] The fleet used to be composed of ČKD Tatra trams that provided service towards the end of the GDR era.
[4][17] The CarGoTram is a freight carrying tram that supplies Volkswagen's Transparent Factory, crossing the city.
Today, the DVB uses a fleet of buses manufactured by EvoBus (under the Mercedes-Benz bus brand), MAN and Solaris.
[citation needed] DVB provides a night service named GuteNachtLinie ('goodnight line'), which operates every day of the week (Monday-Sunday), although the frequency of the buses is greater on Friday, Saturday and before holidays when the routes run every 30 minutes between 22:45 and 04:45.
Both start from lower terminals close to each other, in the district of Loschwitz and near to the famous Blue Wonder bridge over the River Elbe.
The Standseilbahn is single track with a passing loop, whilst the Schwebebahn has two parallel 'tracks' on its substantial elevated structure.
