Aufgabenträger · Baden-Württemberg
Verband Region Stuttgart
- Abbreviation
- VRS
- Land / remit
- Baden-Württemberg
- Legal form
- Regional association (public law)
- Seat
- Stuttgart
Kronenstraße 25, 70174 Stuttgart
- Website
- www.region-stuttgart.org
- Management
- Managing director(s) per the authority's Impressum. Names rotate; always check the current Impressum for the authoritative list.
Background
Public-law regional association established by the Gesetz über die Errichtung des Verbands Region Stuttgart (1994); direct democratic legitimation through the Regionalversammlung. Aufgabenträger for the Stuttgart S-Bahn (electrically operated, 220 km, six main lines), carved out of NVBW's Land-wide remit.
Remit and mandate
Aufgabenträger for the Stuttgart S-Bahn; separate from NVBW's Land-wide remit.
Tender pipeline — Wettbewerbsfahrplan 2025
The following lots are listed in the 2025 Wettbewerbsfahrplan (BSN) with this authority as the lead or as a participating authority. Leadership counts: 1 lot(s) as lead authority, 0 lot(s) as participating authority.
As lead authority
No. 108
S-Bahn Stuttgart
Gross · Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Contract term
- 01.07.2032 — TBD
- Services
- RB + S- Bahn · Electric · 14,00 M train-km/yr
- Rolling stock
- Pool: TBD · New-build: TBD · ETCS: retrofit
- Operator
- Not yet awarded / see authority
- Lines
- S 1 (Kirchheim/Teck – Plochingen – Herrenberg), S 2 (Schorndorf – Stuttgart-Vaihingen), S 3 (Backnang – Neuhausen), S 4 (Backnang – Marbach (Neckar) – Stuttgart Schwabstraße), S 5 (Bietigheim-Bissingen – Böblingen) and S 6/S 60/S 62 (Weil der Stadt/Böblingen – Stuttgart Schwabstraße) sowie RB 64 (Kirchheim/Teck – Oberlenningen) and RB 11 (Kornwestheim Pbf – Stuttgart-Untertürkheim)
- Remarks
- Bruttovertrag, potentially mit Anreizsystem
Source: Bundesverband SchienenNahverkehr (BSN), Wettbewerbsfahrplan 2025. Data are as published in the Wettbewerbsfahrplan and have not been independently verified against the underlying tender documentation.
Further reading
Last reviewed: 18 April 2026.