Public Transport in the Netherlands

The Netherlands has a wide spread regular public transport system consisting of busses, trams, trains and the underground. Despite this range of transportation, the public transport in the countryside and during the evening/weekends is under pressure. Nevertheless, there have been developed new forms of collective transport. Since several years Collective Demand Dependent Transport (CVV) has become operational. CVV substitutes but is especially supplementary to the regular public transport system. CVV stands for all the systems of public transport, available on demand, within a defined area with which a traveler can be taken from his home or a stop to a special destination. Meanwhile a national network of different regional CVV-systems has been developed and has almost been completed. In 1999 the government made a special contract for the disabled people with the transport company conneXXion for super regional transport. It has opened the possibility for disabled clients to take a drive outside their own region. This transport service is linking several transport systems together. Looking at The Netherlands on a national scale, there are many different types of collective transport.