About Nahverkehrs-praxis

Nahverkehrs-praxis

NahverkehrsPraxis is the German trade journal for local public transport — the Fachzeitschrift for the ÖPNV (öffentlicher Personennahverkehr). Published by the Fachverlag Dr. H. Arnold GmbH in Dortmund and edited by editor-in-chief and publisher Gudrun Arnold-Schoenen, it has covered the industry's topics since 1983: the transport policy and law, the vehicles and technology, the operations, and the financing. The nahverkehrspraxis.de portal delivers the daily industry news — the October 13, 2026, story on DB InfraGO's withdrawn service cuts, the 2027 media data, the event partnerships — and the journal serves as the media partner of the industry's leading events: the Deutscher Nahverkehrstag (16th edition, June 23–25 in Koblenz), mobility move, the UITP Summit, and busworld. In the German transport press, NahverkehrsPraxis is the ÖPNV journal: the trade magazine of the buses, trams, and local trains.

Overview

The journal presents itself as the trade journal for local public transport — the Fachzeitschrift that has treated the current topics of transport policy and law since 1983. Its editorial program covers the ÖPNV's full spectrum: the transport policy — the federal and state legislation, the financing, the Deutschlandticket, and the infrastructure modernization; the vehicles and technology — the buses, trams, and local trains, the alternative drives, the digitalization, and the fleet management; the operations — the scheduling, the staffing (Fachkräftesicherung), the passenger information, and the service quality; and the industry events — the congresses, the fairs, and the association meetings that the journal accompanies as media partner.

The readership is the German-speaking public-transport industry's professional core: the transport companies' managers, the municipal transport planners, the vehicle and technology suppliers, the association officials, and the policymakers. The journal's authority rests on its four-decade continuity: since 1983 the trade journal that the ÖPNV professionals read for the policy analysis, the technology reporting, and the industry news. The October 2026 DB InfraGO story — the withdrawn cuts on the Munich–Augsburg corridor, with Bavarian transport minister Christian Bernreiter's statement — illustrates the journal's news role: the daily industry briefing with the political voices.

The portal's daily news rhythm extends the print journal into the continuous coverage; the 2027 media data documents the current commercial program; and the event partnerships — the Deutscher Nahverkehrstag's special issue in the congress bags — make the journal the industry's meeting-place medium. The journal's 2027 event calendar — mobility move, the UITP Summit, busworld, and the further fairs as media partner — documents the industry's year: the journal accompanies the transport professionals to the events where the business is done.

The Industry's Agenda

The journal's current agenda reflects the ÖPNV's central challenges: the digitalization — the intelligent linking of transport modes, the digital platforms, the smart-mobility concepts; the alternative drives — the electric and hydrogen fleets, the charging infrastructure, the depot conversions; the integrated mobility offers — the on-demand services, the sharing integrations, the MaaS platforms; the skilled-worker securing — the driver recruitment, the training, the working conditions; and the financing and infrastructure modernization — the investment backlogs, the federal programs, the municipal budgets. The Deutscher Nahverkehrstag's 16th edition — around 900 participants, more than 150 presentations, numerous exhibitors in Koblenz — is the industry's central meeting: the journal's special issue in the congress bags reaches the decision-makers where they gather.

History

Nahverkehrs-praxis was established in 1983 as the trade journal for local public transport — the publication that has treated the current topics of transport policy and law for four decades. The Fachverlag Dr. H. Arnold GmbH in Dortmund (Siegburgstraße 5-7, 44341 Dortmund) built the journal as the ÖPNV industry's medium: the specialist publisher's flagship for the buses, trams, and local trains. The editor-in-chief and publisher Gudrun Arnold-Schoenen (g.schoenen@nahverkehrspraxis.de) leads the journal; the editorial team — Dr. Volker Wüstehube (Redaktion), Markus Fedra (Online-Redaktion), Annika Egloff-Schoenen (Digitale Medien und Veranstaltungen) — produces the print and digital program.

The journal's history reflects the ÖPNV's transformations: the 1990s regionalization, the 2000s liberalization debates, the 2010s digitalization and alternative drives, and the 2020s Deutschlandticket, financing crises, and the skilled-worker shortage. The journal accompanied each transformation with the policy analysis and the industry reporting. The event partnerships — the Deutscher Nahverkehrstag (the 16th edition in June in Koblenz, with around 900 participants, 150+ presentations), mobility move, the UITP Summit, busworld — established the journal as the industry's media partner: the special issues in the congress bags, the reporting from the events. The journal's Freiburg location (Kirchbergstraße 23, 79111 Freiburg) extends the Dortmund publishing house's presence into the southwest: the regional anchoring alongside the national coverage.

Coverage and Content

The journal's coverage follows the public-transport professional's world. Transport policy forms the core: the federal legislation — the financing, the infrastructure programs, the regulatory framework; the Deutschlandticket — the implementation, the financing disputes, the passenger effects; and the state and municipal policies — the transport ministers' statements (the Bernreiter interview on the DB InfraGO cuts), the local transport plans, and the infrastructure modernization. The journal's political reporting gives the industry its policy intelligence.

Vehicles and technology cover the fleet: the buses — the electric buses, the hydrogen, the autonomous pilots; the trams and local trains — the procurements, the modernizations, the accessibility; and the digitalization — the ticketing, the passenger information, the data platforms, and the integrated mobility offers. Operations cover the daily business: the scheduling, the driver recruitment and retention, the service quality, and the passenger communication.

The event coverage — the Deutscher Nahverkehrstag's 900 participants and 150 presentations, the mobility move, the UITP Summit, the busworld — documents the industry's meeting places: the congress reports, the exhibitor news, and the award ceremonies. The journal's special issues — the Deutscher Nahverkehrstag edition in the congress bags, the fair specials — reach the industry's decision-makers at the events: the print presence where the ÖPNV's business conversations happen.

Organization and Ownership

Nahverkehrs-praxis is published by the Fachverlag Dr. H. Arnold GmbH in Dortmund (Siegburgstraße 5-7, 44341 Dortmund; Postfach 15 01 20; +49 231 3369-0; info@nahverkehrspraxis.de). The editor-in-chief and publisher (Chefredakteurin und Herausgeberin): Gudrun Arnold-Schoenen. The editorial team: Dr. Volker Wüstehube (Redaktion; redaktion@nahverkehrspraxis.de), Markus Fedra (Online-Redaktion), Annika Egloff-Schoenen (Digitale Medien und Veranstaltungen). The media consulting: Nicole Janke, Martina Kaczmarek (anzeigen@nahverkehrspraxis.de). The distribution: Estefano Mestre (vertrieb@bussysteme.de). The Freiburg location (Kirchbergstraße 23, 79111 Freiburg) extends the publishing house.

The commercial model is that of a B2B trade journal: subscriptions to the industry's professionals, advertising from the vehicle manufacturers, the technology suppliers, and the service providers — and the event partnerships (Deutscher Nahverkehrstag, mobility move, UITP Summit, busworld) with the special issues and the media packages.

Digital Presence

The journal's digital home is nahverkehrspraxis.de, where the print journal's program extends into the daily industry news. The portal's October 2026 headlines — the DB InfraGO cuts withdrawn, the 2027 media data online — illustrate the continuous coverage. The event partnerships' digital extensions — the congress specials, the exhibitor news — complete the program. The Deutscher Nahverkehrstag's LinkedIn presence — the media partner's special issue in the congress bags — documents the journal's industry integration.

The ÖPNV industry's networks — the VDV, the associations, the transport companies, the ministries — form the ecosystem in which the journal's content circulates. For four decades — since 1983 — NahverkehrsPraxis has been the local public transport's journal: the Dortmund trade magazine of the buses, trams, and local trains, in print and online — the Fachverlag Dr. H. Arnold's trade journal that the ÖPNV professionals have read since the 1980s and continue to read for the policy, the technology, and the industry news.