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Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg

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Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg
Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg
Ridership since 1996.

The Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (Rhine-Sieg Transport Association; VRS) is the public transport association covering the area of the Cologne/Bonn Region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

It was founded on 1 September 1987, and covers an area of some 5.111 km2 with some 3.3 million inhabitants.[1] For the year 2009 nearly 494 million passengers were carried through the network of VRS,[2] this number has since risen to 555 million passengers in 2019.[3] Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg is named after the rivers Rhine (Rhein) and Sieg.

Associated transport companies

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Selected cities and parishes in the VRS area

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References

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  1. ^ About us vrsinfo.de
  2. ^ Ministerium f. Wirtschaft, Energie, Bauen, Wohnen und Verkehr des Landes NRW: Mobilität in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Daten und Fakten 2010
  3. ^ "VRS : Das leisten wir..." [VRS : We perform like this...]. VRS (in German). Retrieved 11 April 2023.
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