Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr

Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr
AbbreviationVRR
Named afterrivers Rhine and Ruhr
FormationVRR GmbH: January 1, 1980; 44 years ago (1980-01-01)

ZV VRR: January 1, 1996; 28 years ago (1996-01-01)

VRR AöR: September 28, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-09-28)
DissolvedVRR GmbH: September 2006; 18 years ago (2006-09)
TypeStatutory corporation
Legal statusAnstalt des öffentlichen Rechts
HeadquartersAugustastraße 1
45879 Gelsenkirchen
Region
Ruhr, Lower Rhine region, parts of the Rhine-Ruhr
Vorstandssprecherin
Gabriele Matz
Vorstand
José Luis Castrillo
SubsidiariesZV VRR
NVN
ZV VRR FaIn-EB
Staff182 (in 2019)
Websitehttps://www.vrr.de

The Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (German: [fɛɐ̯ˈkeːɐ̯s.fɛɐ̯ˌbʊnt ˈʁaɪn ˈʁuːɐ̯]), abbreviated VRR, is a public transport association (Verkehrsverbund) in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It covers most of the Ruhr area, as well as neighbouring parts of the Lower Rhine region, including Düsseldorf and thus large parts of the Rhine-Ruhr conurbation. It was founded on 1 January 1980, and is Europe’s largest body of such kind, covering an area of some 5,000 km2 (1,900 sq mi) with more than 7.8 million inhabitants, spanning as far as Dorsten in the north, Dortmund in the east, Langenfeld in the south, and Mönchengladbach and the Dutch border in the west.