Intensive voluntary involvement and sound expert knowledge
About 700 member companies
The VDV advises its member companies at regional and national level and offers a platform for the exchange of experience and know-how. About 700 members from the fields of public passenger transport and rail freight transport are organised in the VDV in nine regional groups and five divisions: BUS, TRAM, passenger transport with railways (PTR), rail freight transport (RFT) as well as association and principal organisations (A/P).
The official bodies of the VDV are the members’ meeting, the meetings of the regional groups, the presidency, the boards of management and the general management. These bodies are supported by the voluntary work of 400 experts from the member companies, who discuss and deal strategically with matters of importance to the sector in six general committees and 21 expert committees.
Presidency
The presidency of the VDV consists of the president, the chairmen of the boards of management (of the five divisions), who are vice-presidents, the chairmen of the regional groups, the chairmen of the general committees, the general manager as well as further representatives from the fields of bus and railway. At present, the presidency consists of 34 representatives from the five divisions.
6 general committees
- Planning
- Legal Matters
- Economy
- Marketing and Communication
- Personnel Management
- Price Formation and Sale
21 expert committees
- Depots and workshops
- Urban rail construction
- Electrical power installations
- Non-technical railway infrastructure issues
- Railways of public ports
- Purchaser market
- Motoring
- Urban transport operation
- Railway rolling stock
- Competitor railways
- Industrial railways
- Customer service, information and dialogue
- Telematics and information systems
- Urban rail rolling stock
- Technical railway infrastructure issues
- Railway operation
- Freight transport
- Transport association issues
- Municipal company issues
- Committee for Control-Command and Signalling, Railway
- Committee for Competition in Rail freight transport
Advisory board of the VDV
The advisory board meets once a year in Berlin and has more than 40 members, who are representatives of the highest transport authorities of the federal government and the German states, the local central associations, the transport and trade associations, the trade unions and science. This board aims at strengthening the contacts between science, transport, politics and administration.
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