The Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV) (English: "Hamburg Transport Association") is a company coordinating public transport in and around Hamburg, Germany. Its main objectives are to provide a unified fare system, requiring only a single ticket for journeys with transfers between different operating companies, and to facilitate and speed up travel by harmonising the individual companies' schedules. At its inception in 1965, HVV was the first organisation of this kind worldwide.
In 2010 HVV provides rail, bus and ferry transportation for an area of 8,616 square kilometres with approximately 3.6 million inhabitants in the states of Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony. HVV has approximately 1.95 million customers on an average working day.The HVV organised 27 rapid transit rail lines with a length of 881 km, with the following operators:
AKN Eisenbahn (AKN)
S-Bahn Hamburg GmbH, part of Deutsche Bahn group, operating the Hamburg S-Bahn
DB Regio AG (Region Niedersachsen/Bremen), part of Deutsche Bahn group
DB Regionalbahn Schleswig-Holstein GmbH (RBSH)
Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser, operating rail and bus services
Hamburger Hochbahn, operating the U-Bahn and many bus services in Hamburg
metronom Eisenbahngesellschaft
NBE nordbahn Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
Nord-Ostsee-Bahn GmbH
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