German Transport Transition Award for ioki Hamburg

The transport alliance Allianz pro Schiene has awarded ioki Hamburg with the German Transport Transition Award. The independent jury praised the concept for "modern, sustainable mobility with on-demand shuttles on the outskirts of the city. Shifting traffic from cars to public transport is a successful approach for the last mile on the outskirts."

ioki Hamburg is thus one of the five best-practice examples that show what the transport transition in Germany can look like. The ioki Hamburg on-demand service is a public transport service without a fixed schedule or routes, fully integrated into the Hamburg Transport Association (hvv).

Successful Transport Transition

As a pioneer for digital public transport, Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein GmbH (VHH) and DB subsidiary ioki have been setting new standards since 2018. Initially in the Hamburg districts of Lurup and Osdorf, and since autumn 2019 also in Billbrook. In December 2020, as part of the Real Lab Hamburg and in cooperation with the city of Ahrensburg and the district of Stormarn, the ioki Hamburg services in Ahrensburg and the Brunsbek/Lütjensee/Trittau area were added.

"We are very pleased with this award because it shows us once again that we have taken the right path with ioki Hamburg - and that it is worthwhile to continue on this path boldly, with a lot of commitment and passion. We enable local people to have more mobility with less traffic, thus having a real chance to change mobility habits in the future," says Toralf Müller, Managing Director of VHH.

Almost 600,000 passengers and more than 2.6 million kilometers traveled show that offerings like ioki Hamburg can make an important contribution to the transport transition. Around 88% of ioki Hamburg users have a hvv season ticket and 72% of journeys are used as the "first and last" mile and intermodal from and to public transport (such as S-Bahn, regional trains, express buses). One in three passengers consciously chooses the comfortable and more sustainable transportation with the on-demand service, leaving their own car behind. This is evidenced by a scientific accompanying study by the Technical University of Hamburg.

The German Transport Transition Award 2022

In addition to ioki Hamburg, Allianz pro Schiene has nominated 14 other sustainable mobility projects for the German Transport Transition Award. An independently appointed jury selected the five winning projects from the nominations. The German Transport Transition Award is part of the "Concrete Transport Transition" project, which is funded by the Federal Environment Agency and the Federal Ministry for the Environment.