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Public transport taxi as a building block against mobility gaps – VSPV meets Victoria Broßart from the Greens
The Association of Private Commercial Road Passenger Transport in North Rhine-Westphalia (VSPV) sees in this a pragmatic approach to better open up regions lacking adequate line connections. VSPV managing director Sascha Waltemate and the general authorized signatory Patrick Meinhardt lobbied in the discussion for a stronger embedding of the model in federal policy.
Gaps in the network as a starting point
The starting point of the debate is a finding that in many regions has increasingly been described as structural: The traditional scheduled services do not reach all locations with dense frequencies, especially in rural areas and in outer suburbs. These “white spots” in the local transport network are, from the industry's perspective, not only a comfort problem but a question of mobility justice.
The public-transport taxi should start here. It complements existing bus and rail services flexibly and on-demand — for example where lines are not economically viable or run too infrequently. Broßart stated the goal in the discussion accordingly clearly: It is about closing existing gaps. For that, there need to be actors at the federal, state and municipal levels who actively drive ahead the expansion of local transport.
“For me, the public-transport taxi is one of the central points to close mobility gaps. And we still have far too many of them. Here at the federal level, in the states and locally in the municipalities, we need many conviction-driven advocates who truly want to achieve a comprehensive local public transport.” said Victoria Broßart.
Deutschland-Ticket as a starting point, not as a solution
The Deutschland-Ticket continues to serve as a reference framework. It has, according to the assessment in the discussion, created an important foundation for access to public transport. At the same time it runs into systemic limits: regions without adequate offerings would not automatically be better served as a result. Waltemate and Meinhardt therefore point to additional instruments. In addition to higher regionalization funds, the ÖPNV-taxi is, in particular, a building block to complement the existing system rather than replace it.
Political Ambition and Practical Implementation
Representatives of the VSPV also signaled willingness to bring the concept more strongly into political processes. They are available for hearings, events and expert debates in order to discuss the model nationwide. At the core, it is about the question of how flexible mobility forms can be more strongly integrated into public transport. While classical transport planning relies on fixed route structures, the ÖPNV-Taxi operates with demand-oriented trips – often organized through municipalities or transport associations.
“Now is the right time to develop Germany into a true public transport nation,” said Meinhardt and Waltemate.
Reform of the Passenger Transport Act in Focus
Another reference point of the discussion was the Passenger Transport Act (PBefG), whose reform came into effect five years ago. According to the participants, the forthcoming assessment should not be restricted to individual aspects. Instead, they advocate a broader debate about the impact of the reform. In the Bundestag, the proposal states, all factions could contribute their own contributions in order to evaluate mobility policy as a whole.
Between Ambition and Structural Questions
The concept of the ÖPNV-Taxi moves at the interface between public mandate and commercial implementation. It combines classic transport services with flexible operating models from the taxi and rental-car sector. Whether and in what form it will be implemented nationwide depends above all on financing and integration into existing transport structures. The political signals from the talks indicate that the topic is gaining weight – even though concrete legislative steps are still pending.
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