HOCHBAHN Annual Report 2015

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In early 2016 the HOCHBAHN began the preliminary and design planning as well as the
approval planning for the extension of the U4 to Horner Geest and the first construction
phase of the new U5 in early 2016.
After the HOCHBAHN abandoned its plans for the U4 extension to Kleiner Grasbrook
following the negative outcome of the referendum on Hamburg’s application to host the
Olympic Games, activities here are being concentrated on the section of track to Horner
Geest. Regionalisation funds of € 15 million to finance the first steps of this have been
raised via a document published by the Senate and Parliament. Construction may begin
from 2019 onwards. Regionalisation funds of € 40 million for the construction of the first
section of the U5 have been raised via a document published by the Senate and Parliament.
Building work on this section can commence in 2021.
Feasibility studies for the further construction phases of the U5, which envisage extending
the line from City Nord via the Inner City to Siemersplatz, began in early 2016. In this
context, in-depth examination of the different variants as regards routing, station installations
and construction processes needs to be carried out in respect of those sections
which failed to produce a clearly preferred variant in the concept study. The HOCHBAHN
is financing these feasibility studies with € 2 million from regionalisation funds raised via
a document published by the Senate and Parliament. The further routing of the line to
connect Lurup and Osdorfer Born is currently the subject of an intensive study by the
HVV to determine the best variant. As soon as the specialist authorities and the political
bodies have been able to examine the results of this variant study, a decision can be
made on how to proceed and the further planning steps can be initiated without delay.
Direct award of contract for bus services
On 19 August 2014, the Senate Commission in charge of public institutions invited the
HOCHBAHN and the Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg -Holstein GmbH (VHH) in a document to
create the preconditions for the direct award of contracts for bus services. The transport
companies are encouraged in this way to develop, among other goals, an optimised route
network and bus cycles across company lines and to define benchmarking instruments
involving other suitable transport operators. Extensive studies were carried out regarding
the optimisation of the route network across company lines together with VHH and with
the support of Signon (formerly HamburgConsult). The findings of the study are to be
reviewed to see how they can be implemented in operational practice in 2016.
Two suitable benchmarking partners have been found, in the shape of transport companies
from Berlin (BVG) and Hanover (üstra). PricewaterhouseCoopers Aktiengesellschaft
Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft has meanwhile, as lead company, carried
out studies for various functional areas using comparable data from 2012 and 2014,
with good results.
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