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Freiburger Verkehrs AG, also known as VAG Freiburg or just VAG, is the municipal transport company of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany. It is a member of the Regio-Verkehrsverbund Freiburg (RVF), a transport association that co-ordinates public transport in the city of Freiburg and the neighboring districts of Emmendingen and Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald.〔Deacon, Ray. (1998). p 2.〕 Furthermore VAG owns 50% of the shares in the Breisgau S-Bahn, the other 50% are with SWEG. The company operates a regional railway network on DB Netz AG and SWEG owned tracks. The services run on short sections of the Magistrale Upper Rhine Valley Railway, together with the ''Elztalbahn'', ''Kaiserstuhlbahn'' and ''Breisachbahn'' branch lines. The VAG is a public limited company. Shareholder is the city of Freiburg. In 2010 the overall loss was 7.545 million €. This was accomplished by a cover ratio of 88%, which is impressingly high by German public transport standards. ==History== The company was founded as ''Direktion des Elektrizitätswerkes und der Straßenbahn'' on October, 1st 1899. The basic tram net with four lines went to service in 1901. They were converted former horse bus lines. The Schauinslandbahn went to service in 1930 by a privately owned company and after being bought by the city of Freiburg in 1968 merged to the VAG in 1982. The Breisgau-S-Bahn was founded in 1995. Because of the previous existing services the operating started immediately. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Freiburger Verkehrs AG」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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