Regionalverkehre Start Deutschland GmbH is a German railway company that operates local rail passenger transport in Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. The company is owned by Deutsche Bahn through DB Regio.
According to its own statements, the company would like to act “lean and dynamic” like a start-up company[1] and thus meet the increasing cost and performance pressure in German local rail passenger transport. This came about, among other things, as a result of the liberalisation of local transport in Germany and the associated tenders in German states. The DB Regio company has lost many routes under this pressure in recent years.[2]
- ^ "Über die Regionalverkehre Start Deutschland GmbH" (PDF) (in German). Regionalverkehre Start Deutschland. 9 March 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
- ^ Hartmann, Guido M. (8 June 2016). "DB Regio: Wenn der Platzhirsch nur noch schwächelt". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 25 May 2023.