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52-459: The Stuttgart S-Bahn is a suburban railway system ( S-Bahn ) serving the Stuttgart Region , an urban agglomeration of around 2.7 million people, consisting of the city of Stuttgart and the adjacent districts of Esslingen , Böblingen , Ludwigsburg and Rems-Murr-Kreis . The Stuttgart S-Bahn comprises seven lines numbered S1 through S6 and S60, and is operated by S-Bahn Stuttgart ,

104-461: A subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn . The system is integrated with the regional transport association , the Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart (VVS), which coordinates tickets and fares among all transport operators in the metropolitan area . All lines lead through the city centre of Stuttgart. The northeastern end of the tunnel (from the tracks near Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof through Schwabstraße )

156-529: A "memory schedule" or clock-face schedule . The basic cycle is one train per hour and line (which is only used early in the morning and late in the evening). During the day, there are usually additional trains which increases the cycle for each line to every 30 minutes (outside of rush hour) or 15 minutes ( rush hour ). Beginning at Schwabstraße and heading towards Hauptbahnhof, the schedule is as follows: If there are additional trains, these times repeat at 15- or 30-minute intervals (which means that during rush hour

208-841: A location as well as location marketing) one focus is on the economic promotion activities of the Stuttgart Region and the Support of certain business clusters. Amongst others.: In order to support these Clusters, the WRS initiates, coordinates and mentors the WRS branch networks (e.g. the Clusterinitiative Automotive CARS , the MedienInitiative Region Stuttg art or the Initiative Open Source Region Stuttgart ), organises Symposiums (as for example

260-458: A million Euros on a feasibility study on ETCS for S-Bahn Stuttgart. After a Request for tender , four offers were received and the contract concluded in October 2017. ETCS proved to be technically feasible and useful to reduce headways. The final report, published in early 2019, concluded that headways in the central core section of the network could be reduced by some 20 percent. On January 30, 2019,

312-560: A vineyard. An erratic placed after the vine field reform - the so-called Vogelstein - lays by accident almost exactly in that center. The Neckar flows through the region for about 90 kilometers, of which about 70 kilometers are navigable waterway . The longest tributary in the region is the Fils (50 km), followed by Murr (45 km), the Rems (35 km) and the Enz (30 km). Topographically

364-619: Is accessed through a dense roadenetwork of controlled access highways ( Autobahn ), federal Highway ( Bundesstraßen ), district roads ( Kreisstrassen ). The Bundesstraßen, enhanced to four to six lanes run in a star pattern towards the states capital . There are only few efficient tangential Connections. The two Autobahns A 8 and A 81 meet in the Region at the Leonberg triangle, one of the most used Autobahn junctions in Germany. Stuttgarter Hauptbahnhof ,

416-440: Is due not only to the influence of international companies , such as Daimler , Porsche , Robert Bosch , Celesio , Hewlett-Packard and IBM (all of whom have their world or German headquarters here), but also to the influence of medium-sized enterprises such as Behr , Kärcher , Märklin , Stihl , Festo , and Trumpf . In total, approximately 150,000 companies are located in the Stuttgart Region. 24 per cent of employees in

468-652: Is the end point of the railway from Stuttgart-Rohr . Line S 2 of the Stuttgart S-Bahn terminates here. In 1891 the Filder Railway Company ( German : Filderbahn-Gesellschaft ) planned a new railway from Möhringen to Echterdingen . At the same time a local railway ( Lokalbahn ) committee was established, with participants from Neuhausen , Bernhausen , Obersielmingen , Untersielmingen and Denkendorf , which supported an extension from Echterdingen to Zell am Neckar . It persisted but without success. Instead,

520-520: The Administrative District of Stuttgart . The German state of Baden-Württemberg is sub-divided into four districts: Stuttgart Region is part of the "Administrative District of Stuttgart" (Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart, 4 million inhabitants, 11,000 km ). The Stuttgart Metropolitan Area (pop. 5.3 million), according to the definition of the European Union, is neither identical with

572-573: The Max Planck Society , six of the Fraunhofer Society , for industrial development institutes where several companies work together, one large research institution, 88 transfer centers of the Steinbeis foundation for economic Promotion and many research facilities at Universities and Universities of Applied sciences are located in the region.. Stuttgart Region shouldn't be confused with

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624-609: The Verband Region Stuttgart on February, 7th 1994. Thereby the new association besides the regional planning , received additional tasks and has as the only regional association in Baden-Württemberg a directly elected parliament . The regional assembly of the Verband Region Stuttgart is elected every five years. Further association bodies besides the regional assembly are the honorary chairman elected by

676-541: The knowledge transfer and contacts between industry and science, 15 competence and Innovation Centers have been established in the Region within which organisations, universities and research facilities work together interdisciplinary on industries related projects. Examples for such competence and Innovation Centers are the Virtual Dimension Center (VDC, competence Center for virtual reality in Fellbach ),

728-532: The standard gauge tracks of the Deutsche Bahn AG (DBAG) and are powered by single phase AC at 15 kV and 16.67 hertz , taken from overhead wires. Installation of new passenger information systems began in December 2004. These systems indicate the actual real-time status for the next three trains rather than just the scheduled departure time and route of the next train. All seven S-Bahn lines travel under

780-686: The "inner" Stuttgart Region nor with the Administrative District of Stuttgart. The Stuttgart Metropolitan Area consists i.a. of the following larger cities (approx. 50 km from Stuttgart City Center): and their surrounding counties. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] map of Baden-Württemberg Left: Stuttgart Region - Right: Stuttgart Administrative District A selection of regional attractions: 48°47′00″N 9°10′35″E  /  48.78333°N 9.17639°E  / 48.78333; 9.17639 Filderstadt station Filderstadt station (called Bernhausen station until 28 May 1983)

832-415: The 210-metre long central platform. The western access is like a park, having a gently sloping lawn with a water staircase and a sculpture called Filderspiel (“Filder game”). There is also set of sculptures on the platform. In 2001 the city of Filderstadt renovated the historic station building. It houses a Tourist Information Office and a local government shopfront ( Bürgeramt ). It is centrally located on

884-702: The 430 train sets were in service with the S1 line completely converted. The following expansions of the Stuttgart S-Bahn system are currently in planning or underway: Additional projects not in active planning at present: [REDACTED] Stuttgart Region Situated at the heart of Baden-Württemberg , the Stuttgart Region is the hub of economic , scientific , and political life in Southwest Germany . The area currently has Germany's highest density of scientific, academic and research organisations, and tops

936-613: The Central Station until 1978. The primary line was from Esslingen to Ludwigsburg while changing direction in Stuttgart Central Station. The first steps toward an S-Bahn in Stuttgart began after World War II . With the Stuttgart Central Station moved to its current location in the 1920s, the focus was shifted to construction of a downtown railway tunnel to improve access to the central city and points south. Simultaneously,

988-615: The Class 420 from 2012 on. The deployment of the Class 430 trains was delayed in July 2013 after several failures of the doors and retractable steps. These problems, along with unrelated signal failures, resulted in widespread delays on the S-Bahn system, especially on the S1, S2, and S3 lines. It was decided that the retractable step feature would be disabled and Class 430 trains will be gradually introduced beginning on December 15, 2013. By April 2014, 36 of

1040-913: The Filder Railway, but it was closed at the outbreak of World War I . On 1 October 1920 the Deutsche Reichsbahn opened a new line from Rohr to Echterdingen to connect with the Echterdingen–Neuhausen section of the Municipal Filder Railway ( Städtischen Filderbahn , SFB). This section remained the property of the SFB (which was owned by the City of Stuttgart) and was absorbed into the Stuttgart Tramways ( Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen , SSB) on 1 January 1934. The bus route from Degerloch to Nürtingen

1092-704: The Kompetenznetzwerk Mechatronik in Göppingen , the Packaging Excellence Center (PEC, competence Center for packaging and automation technology) in Waiblingen or the Software center Böblingen/Sindelfingen. Further activities aim at the supply of skilled employees (for example through advancing the compatibility of family and careers and model projects on professional development ). As well as

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1144-457: The Region lays between 170 m above sea level ( Neckar near Kirchheim am Neckar ) and 835 m above sea level (swabian albs plateau near Hohenstadt ). About 2.7 million people live in the Stuttgart Region, which corresponds to a quarter of the entire population of Baden-Württemberg at about on tenth of its size. 749 people/km is the regions average population density. The numbers of inhabitants are census results (¹) or official updates of

1196-590: The S1 and S3 lines, while the 420s are in use along the other lines. Maintenance of the trains and power units takes place in the S-Bahn service yard at the original eastern terminus of line S1 in Plochingen. This yard is equipped with the latest wheel lathes and washing and graffiti-cleaning equipment. About 550 employees working in three shifts keep the S-Bahn in service. On May 5, 2009, Bombardier and Alstom announced they received an order for 83 Class 430 train sets (including an option for another 83 sets) to replace

1248-460: The S1 between Schwabstraße and Esslingen and on the S6 between Schwabstraße and Leonberg to 10 minutes. Beginning in 1996, 15-minute headways during rush hours were introduced on all lines. This was accomplished with supplemental trains and operational changes along the outlying segments. This allowed the overall headway on the central trunk section to remain at 2.5 minutes. All lines currently converge in

1300-451: The S4 will depart on e.g. 07:03 AM, 07:18 AM, 07:33 AM and 07:48 AM). Some additional trains do not travel the full length of the track, e.g. there are some trains of line S1 that shuttle between Esslingen and Schwabstraße or Plochingen and Schwabstraße instead of continuing through to Kirchheim u. Teck. Suburban transport in Stuttgart has been operated since 1933, initially along electric lines from

1352-564: The State government approved the establishment of the metre gauge Möhringen-Neuhausen line on 14 April 1896. It was formally inaugurated on 23 December 1897 and regular operations began on the following day. Bernhausen station was built south of the village. The station building, which still stands, is a Württemberg station of type IIIa, slightly adapted by the Filder Railway. The building housed waiting rooms, station services and residential rooms. The freight shed does not exist anymore. This loaded

1404-516: The Stuttgart Region work in the high-tech sector – a European record. The Verband Region Stuttgart as a political entity is responsible for regional transportation planning and for the basic network of public transport in Stuttgart Region. Out of the total Investments in R&;D of German companies, more than 10% is invested by companies from the Stuttgart Region, which is one of the reasons for its leading high patent application amount. Two institutes of

1456-462: The Stuttgart streetcar company was embarking on plans to build tunnels downtown for their system. Additionally, extra tracks were added to several outlying rail corridors in preparation for eventual S-Bahn service. After financing agreements between the city, state and federal government and the state railway Deutsche Bundesbahn were reached, construction on the downtown tunnel from Stuttgart Central Station to Schwabstraße began on July 5, 1971. Work

1508-572: The Stuttgarter Harbour the Region is connected to the inner German and western European waterway network. Cargo ships with a tonnage of up to 2,800 t are loaded and unloaded here daily. In order to accommodate the large number of commuters in the Region and relieve the roads, the Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart (VVS) offers, counting only the S-Bahn already a network of 215 km length and Services 83 stops. The leisure traffic accumulates

1560-453: The VRS are amongst others: The VRS is the representative for the regional spatial planning ( regional planning ). Most important tool herefore is the regional plan according to § 9 ROG. This plan names the following central places. The VRS is responsible for the regional transport planning and the regional significant local public transport . In the regional transport plan it makes forecasts of

1612-550: The annual fuel cell congress f-cell) and gathers and publishes a variety of branch information. In order to promote the employer attractiveness of the regions small and medium-sized employers to the pupils, students and graduates, the Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH hosts an online Stuttgart Region employer directory. There organizations have the possibility to present themselves and their current offers for junior employees. In order to improve

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1664-607: The assembly out of its members for 5 years and the regional director elected for 8 years who is temporary full-time public official. The regional director represents the association and leads the Administration. His office is located in the associations office in Stuttgart . The association additionally has an office in Brussels . The Budget of the VRS for 2016 was 389 million Euro (2015: 323 million Euro). Important compulsory tasks of

1716-412: The central trunk section of the track. This results in steady headways to Rohr, Waiblingen, and Ludwigsburg. The section from Vaihingen to Bad Cannstatt and Zuffenhausen has an optimal 10-minute headway during the day. As early as 2015, introducing ETCS on the core section has been considered. In early 2017, Verband Region Stuttgart (VRS), the state of Baden-Württemberg and DB Netz announced to spend

1768-492: The dismantling of the tracks began. Also at first there appeared to be no further use for the station building. But the history and folk society of Filderstadt ( Geschichts- und Heimatverein Filderstadt ) successfully fought for its preservation. The extension of the so-called airport S-Bahn was originally planned by Deutsche Bundesbahn in the 1980s. It was finally implemented on 13 February 1998. On this day construction began on

1820-450: The downtown area to Schwabstraße, and three continue on to Vaihingen through a dual-track tunnel. This tunnel ( Verbindungsbahn , however, presents a bottleneck that limits train headways to two and a half minutes, meaning that trains on each individual line can only run at 15-minute headways. At first, the shortest headway (the time between vehicle arrivals at a given point) on each line was 20 minutes. Headways were subsequently improved on

1872-495: The line between the underground Airport Station and Bernhausen. On 29 September 2001, Deutsche Bahn opened a new tunnel to the new underground Filderstadt station. The adjacent bus stop is still called Bernhausen Bahnhof (“Bernhausen station”). The old line in Filderstadt was not reopened. The underground station is mostly built under the old railway property and is designed to allow a possible further extension to Neuhausen. There are western and eastern accesses for passengers to

1924-399: The main railway station is hub for the long-distance, regional and S-Bahn-Verkehr. Within a radius of 100 km you thereby can reach about 12 million people. Stuttgart Airport has become a European hub for almost 60 airlines. 10 Million passengers use it annually and 65,000 tons of air freight is shipped here. Flights are offered to over 120 destinations in more than 40 countries. Through

1976-438: The majority of the distances taken by the regions 2.7 Million inhabitants. About 800,000 People, roundabout three quarters of the socially insured employees, do not work where they live. The Gross Domestic Product for Stuttgart Region was recorded at about €35,000 per capita, about €64,000 per employed person and €120 billion total. The unemployment rate is 4.8 per cent. Stuttgart Region is one of Europe's economic centres. This

2028-403: The national league for patent applications. From northwest to southeast the region is 90 kilometers long and from southwest to northeast 80 kilometers. The size of the area is 3.654 km . According to calculations made by the land surveying office, the geographical center is located in the south of the district Rems-Murr a few hundred meters east from the village Weinstadt-Strümpfelbach in

2080-571: The operation of the S-Bahn, the Schuster and the small Teckbahn . According to a financing agreement the VRS receives for the S-Bahn Stuttgart 9,1 % of the states regionalization budget from 2018 until 2031, 88 million Euro in 2018. In order to exercise as required by law, the regionally important task of economic promotion , the VRS founded together with other Stakeholders the die Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH (in 1995). Besides

2132-566: The produce of the Briem cabbages factory and the mainly white cabbages of local farmers. The line was regauged to standard gauge on 1 November 1902. In 1903 a Sunday service commenced when the Swabian Albverein (hiking club) opened a new observation tower on the Uhlberg , south of Plattenhardt. In 1914 a bus line was opened from Degerloch via Bernhausen to Nürtingen. It competed for a short time with

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2184-426: The recruitment and the guidance of companies which want to locate in the Stuttgart Region (Exogenic economic promotion) the about 50 employees of WRS consult and assist within the scope of site development already locally based companies (endogenous economic promotion). Besides the classical economic promotion in the narrower sense (e.g. through the marketing of industry sites, guidance of investors at their search for

2236-407: The regional parliament enacted a package of measures. Based on the introduction of ETCS, the train operating contract was extended to mid 2032 and 56 further S-Bahn trainsets were to be purchased. VRS expects to reduce 15-minute intervals to 10-minute intervals through ETCS. As of July 7, 2005, the fleet consisted of ninety Class 420 train sets and sixty Class 423 sets. The Class 423 trains ply

2288-492: The statistical state office of Baden-Württemberg (only primary residence). The Verband Region Stuttgart (VRS) a public body , is as one of 12 regional associations in Baden-Württemberg political and administrative instance of the Stuttgart Region. Its predecessor is the Regionalverband Mittlerer Neckar founded in 1973 which was renamed to Regionalverband Stuttgart in 1992. By law it was transferred into

2340-925: The support of company foundations (for example through the partner network Partnernetz für Unternehmensgründungen aus Stuttgarter Hochschulen (PUSH) or the agency of founders and private Investors ; see also Business Angels ). In order to sponsor the music and film industry the Region has established two separate institutions: The Film Commission Region Stuttgart and the Popbüro Region Stuttgart . The designations were: 1974–1994 „Vorsitzender des Regionalverbands Mittlerer Neckar“ respectively „Vorsitzender des Regionalverbands Stuttgart“; since 1994 „Vorsitzender des Verbands Region Stuttgart“. The designations were: 1974–1994 Verbandsdirektor des Regionalverbands Mittlerer Neckar respectively Verbandsdirektor des Regionalverbands Stuttgart ; since 1994 Regionaldirektor des Verbands Region Stuttgart . The Stuttgart Region

2392-463: The traffic development for longer periods of time and names and evaluates urgent measures to cope with traffic. The VRS is sponsor of the S-Bahn Stuttgart and stakeholder of the Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart (VVS). Moreover, he co-finances Stuttgart 21 . Out of the 323 million Euro in the budget of 2015, 300.4 million Euro went to the transport budget. Of those, 80.5 Million Euro was for

2444-516: Was completed in September 1978 and operation of the Stuttgart S-Bahn began with three lines (all beginning at Schwabstraße station): the S1 to Plochingen via Esslingen , the S4 to Ludwigsburg and the S6 to Weil der Stadt via Feuerbach and Leonberg . Over the following years, the network has been extended to Bietigheim, Backnang and Schorndorf (1981) and the southern branches to Böblingen (1985), Herrenberg (1992) and Airport (1993). The S2

2496-628: Was refused by the Government Stuttgart in 1952. The number of passengers on the Stuttgart-Rohr–Neuhausen line continued to fall. Therefore, Deutsche Bundesbahn closed the line to passengers on 1 August 1955. The SSB continued to operate freight services on the Leinfelden–Neuhausen section. On 1 January 1975 the communities of Bernhausen, Bonlanden, Plattenhardt, Sielmingen and Harthausen were amalgamated as Filderlinden, which

2548-684: Was reinstated in 1927. In 1937, construction began on the Stuttgart-Echterdingen airport . To make room for it, the line between Echterdingen and Bernhausen had to be relocated and it subsequently ran south of the airport. After the Second World War the SSB increased services on its bus line N (Degerloch-Nürtingen). The communities of Bernhausen and Sielmingen called for the extension of the Möhringen–Echterdingen tram line. This, however,

2600-500: Was renamed as Filderstadt on 25 July 1975. In the 1980s, Deutsche Bundesbahn proposed to connect the airport to a planned S-Bahn network. For this purpose, the Stuttgart-Rohr–Echterdingen line was required and its track would need to be doubled and electrified. A rail service between Leinfelden and Neuhausen was therefore not possible. On 28 May 1983, the last freight train operated to Bernhausen station. Shortly thereafter

2652-603: Was the first part of the tunnel to open and has been used since the beginning, the southwestern end from Schwabstraße through Universität since 1985. The main node to change for Stuttgart Stadtbahn is at Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof, but at Stuttgart Stadtmitte S-Bahn-station, you can get to some more lines of the Stadtbahn (with the station's name being Rotebühlplatz ). In the outer city districts there are nodes of S-Bahn and Stadtbahn at Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt station and Stuttgart-Vaihingen station . The Stuttgart S-Bahn has

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2704-446: Was then extended beyond the airport, connecting Filderstadt with the network. The latest changes are the addition of Kirchheim unter Teck to the end of the S1 and the construction of a first tangential line S60 from Böblingen to Maichingen, Renningen and Schwabstraße (S6) and the extension of line S4 to Backnang. The 215 km long system has 83 stations and serves approximately 435,000 passengers every workday. The trains operate on

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