Mitteldeutscher Verkehrsverbund


Mitteldeutscher Verkehrsverbund is a public transport association in the German Leipzig-Halle area. The company is based in Halle, but its head office is in Leipzig.
The Mitteldeutsche Verkehrsverbund is a so-called mixed transport association. Its shareholders are the public authorities and the transport companies. The aim of the MDV is to make it easier for everyone in Mitteldeutschland to travel by local trains, S-Bahn, tram and bus. The MDV already offers a uniform ticket system and is working on a coordinated timetable.

History

The association was introduced with a uniform tariff system on 1 August 2001 in four administrative districts and the two cities, and has since been expanded several times: on 1 August 2004, the last unaffiliated administrative districts in Saxony were included, and on 1 August 2005, Altenburg, the area of the former GDR district of Leipzig, which is still strongly oriented towards Leipzig, was completed in the MDV. Negotiations on the accession of the Bitterfeld district were also started shortly after its introduction, but have not been successful to date. In contrast to the first accessions, the state of Saxony-Anhalt now no longer wants to reimburse through tariffing losses.

Public authorities

The MDV includes :
From 2004, the former district of Döbeln was also part of the Mitteldeutscher Verkehrsverbund. As a result of the Saxon district reform of 2008, however, this became part of the administrative district of Mittelsachsen. Since August 2011, the entire district of Mittelsachsen, including the former district of Döbeln, has belonged to Verkehrsverbund Mittelsachsen. Only for journeys between the former district of Döbeln and the Mitteldeutscher Verkehrsverbund across all areas of the association there are still transitional tariff regulations.
It was announced in February 2018 that the area would be extended to include the districts of Anhalt-Bitterfeld and Wittenberg as well as the city of Dessau-Roßlau. As of December 2019, rail traffic in this area will initially be integrated into the MDV and full integration with bus and tram traffic will be sought. Also in December 2019, Könnern station in the Salzlandkreis district will become part of the network.

Transport companies

Railway companies