Vehicle design

The design of our buses, trains and trams helps provide passengers with barrier-free travel. At the moment, one of the main tasks in this area is to provide access ramps.

Ramps in low-floor buses

Our transport companies have taken a number of measures to make journeys as barrier-free as possible. For instance, the Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) have fitted most of their low-floor buses and all of their low-floor trams with manually operated access ramps. The Verkehrsgesellschaft Hoyerswerda mbH (VGH) only uses low-floor vehicles on their bus routes. There are also ramps  – some automatic, some manual  – in all the low-floor regional rail vehicles operating in the VVO area.

Only vehicle staff may operate the ramps.

The ramps on low-floor buses are situated at doors marked with a wheelchair symbol (2nd door). You can recognise buses with ramps from these features:

• The wheelchair user symbol is located on the right-hand side at the front and rear.
• On the 2nd door there is another wheelchair user symbol.

Ramps on trams and regional trains

The ramps on low-floor trams are located at the first door (behind the driver's door). There is a wheelchair user symbol there with a red rectangle.

On regional Deutsche Bahn trains there are only ramps in low-floor vehicles, not in high-floor vehicles.