The LVB network is a part of the regional public transport association, the Mitteldeutscher Verkehrsverbund (MDV).

Line 3 provides a 10-minute interval between Knautkleeberg and Heiterblick, branching to serve different terminals in the north.

External link: Linienfahrzeuge (Straßenbahn) "Public transport vehicles (Tram)" (in German) External link: Linienfahrzeuge (Bus) "Public transport vehicles (Bus)" (in German) On 18 May 1872, the Leipziger Pferdeeisenbahn (LPE, "Leipzig Horse Railway) opened service.

The Reudnitz tram depot was the first in Leipzig and the location of the LPE head office.

Twenty-five years after opening, the LPE owned 1,013 horses, 172 tramcars and five depots.

After the First World War, the privately owned companies were dissolved and replaced by a municipal undertaking, which operated under the old name Große Leipziger Straßenbahn (GLSt).

It became part of the (nationalized) transport undertakings operated as Volkseigener Betrieb Kombinate ("People's Collective Enterprises") in 1970.