VVO and ZVON merge to form Eastern Saxony transport association
- Location
- Eastern Saxony (Dresden, Görlitz, Bautzen) · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Sector
- Transport & mobility
- Organisations
- Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) ↔ Verkehrsverbund Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien (ZVON)
- Transaction
- Merger
- Volume
- not disclosed
- Status
- completed
On 4 Dec 2025 the VVO general assembly agreed to merge with the ZVON into the new special-purpose association Verkehrsverbund Ostsachsen (ZVVO), due to start on 1 January 2026. It covers the districts of Bautzen, Görlitz, Meissen and Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains plus Dresden and Görlitz, with 1.6 million inhabitants. The ZVVO held its inaugural meeting in Bautzen on 21 January 2026; the two operating companies are to be merged by year-end, a joint tariff will take about two years to develop, and the new network is to replace diesel with battery-hybrid trains. (LOK Report, 21 Jan 2026)
Source: lok-report.de ↗ · Archived copy ↗
Further sources: lok-report.de (4 Dec 2025) ↗ (Archived copy ↗)
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