Dopravný podnik Bratislava, akciová spoločnosť (literally Public Transport Company Bratislava, inc., abbr. DPB a.s.) is the only provider of city public transport in Bratislava and Chorvátsky Grob. It provides 3 types of transportation:

• tram
  Tram
  A tram is a passenger rail vehicle which runs on tracks along public urban streets and also sometimes on separate rights of way. It may also run between cities and/or towns , and/or partially grade separated even in the cities...
  
  s (streetcars) 230 vehicles
• bus
  Bus
  A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...
  
  es 464 vehicles
• trolleybus
  Trolleybus
  A trolleybus is an electric bus that draws its electricity from overhead wires using spring-loaded trolley poles. Two wires and poles are required to complete the electrical circuit...
  
  es 123 vehicles

The 100% owner of the company is the city of Bratislava

Bratislava

Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...

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Vehicles

DPB provides public transport using these vehicles:

Trams:

• Tatra-ČKD T3
  Tatra T3
  The T3 is a type of tramcar produced by Tatra. During its period of production, between 1960 and 1989, 13,991 multiple units and 122 sidecars were sold worldwide, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union...
  
   113 vehicles (110 vehicles have digital/electronic destination sign installation and acoustic information system)
• Tatra-ČKD T3
  Tatra T3
  The T3 is a type of tramcar produced by Tatra. During its period of production, between 1960 and 1989, 13,991 multiple units and 122 sidecars were sold worldwide, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union...
  
   4 vehicles are reconstructed to T3MOD (1 vehicle), T3AS (1 vehicle), T3S (2 vehicles)
• Tatra-ČKD T3P
  Tatra T3
  The T3 is a type of tramcar produced by Tatra. During its period of production, between 1960 and 1989, 13,991 multiple units and 122 sidecars were sold worldwide, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union...
  
   20 vehicles
• Tatra-ČKD K2
  Tatra K2
  The Tatra K2 was the first production articulated tramcar built by ČKD Tatra between 1966 and 1983, following the failure of the experimental K1 which never entered production. It was noted that the main problem with the K1 was with the new electrical equipment, and therefore the same electrical...
  
   3 historic vehicles
• Tatra-ČKD K2S
  Tatra K2
  The Tatra K2 was the first production articulated tramcar built by ČKD Tatra between 1966 and 1983, following the failure of the experimental K1 which never entered production. It was noted that the main problem with the K1 was with the new electrical equipment, and therefore the same electrical...
  
   36 vehicles
• Tatra-ČKD K2G
  Tatra K2
  The Tatra K2 was the first production articulated tramcar built by ČKD Tatra between 1966 and 1983, following the failure of the experimental K1 which never entered production. It was noted that the main problem with the K1 was with the new electrical equipment, and therefore the same electrical...
  
   1 vehicle (reconstructed in 1998–2005)
• Tatra-ČKD T6A5
  Tatra T6A5
  Tatra T6A5, also known as Tram 6 and nicknamed "Iron" is a unidirectional high-floor light rail vehicle made for rapid transit systems in Bratislava, Košice, Brno, Prague and Ostrava....
  
   58 vehicles (2 prototype trams delivered in 2006)

Buses:

• Ikarus 280 1 historic vehicle (all vehicles are reject)
• Karosa B 732 30 vehicles and 2 historic vehicles (48 vehicles are reconstructed to Karosa B741 NSTG)
• Ikarus 283 1 vehicle and 2 historic vehicles (the others vehicles are reject)
• Karosa B 741
  Karosa B 741
  Karosa B 741 is an articulated urban bus developed by Karosa of the Czech Republic, in the years of 1991 to 1997. In many towns it survived the competition with Hungarian-made Ikarus 280 bus.- Construction features :...
  
   91 vehicles (86 vehicles are reconstructed to Karosa B741 NSTG)
• TAM 260 A 180 M 1 historic vehicle
• TAM 272 A 180 M 6 vehicles and 1 historic vehicle (all vehicles are reconstructed)
• TAM 232 A 116 M 4 vehicles (all vehicles are reconstructed, one vehicle is reject)
• Ikarus 435 85 vehicles (3 vehicles are reconstructed)
• Ikarus 415 35 vehicles (1 vehlicle was reconstructed abortion in years 2004–2005 to Ikarus 415 CNG)
• Ikarus 412 3 vehicles with low-floor (1 vehicle is specially using for handicapped children)
• SOR B 9.5 32 vehicles
• SOR BN 9.5 18 vehicles with low-floor
• Mercedes-Benz Sprinter
  Mercedes-Benz Sprinter
  The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter is a light and heavy commercial vehicle, built by Daimler AG of Stuttgart, Germany as a van, chassis cab and minibus, and sold as a Mercedes model, except in the U.S. where it is built from complete knock down kits and was sold by Freightliner until 2010 when Mercedes...
  
   416 CDI 2 minibuses with low-floor
• Solaris Urbino15 CNG 22 vehicles with low-floor
• Iveco Daily Way 8 minibuses with low-floor
• SOR C 10.5 8 vehicles
• Tedom C12 G 30 vehicles (lease by Tedom from January 2009 to January 2017)
• SOR BN 10.5 38 vehicles with low-floor
• Mercedes-Benz O 530 Citaro CNG 1 vehicle
• Mercedes-Benz O 530 GL CapaCity 21 vehicles
• Mercedes-Benz O 405 GN2 11 vehicles with low-floor (lease by Abuss s.r.o. Nitra from November 2009)
• SOR NB 18 60 vehicles
• Irisbus Citelis 12M 35 vehicles

Trolleybuses:

• Škoda 14Tr 65 vehicles (21 vehicles are reconstructed)
• Škoda 14 TrM 12 vehicles
• Škoda 15Tr 16 vehicles(all vehicles are reconstructed)
• Škoda 15TrM 23 vehicles
• Škoda 21Tr 1 vehicle with low-floor
• Škoda 25Tr 6 vehicles with diesel-electric agregat with low-floor

Directors

• 1895–1907 – Karol Kakulay
• 1907–1920 – Rudolf Pleskott
• 1920–1939 – Ing. Jaroslav Bartošek
• 1939–1943 – Ing. Štefan Januš
• 1943–1949 – Dr. Vladimír Brežný
• 1949–1950 – Ján Bauman
• 1950–1951 – Ján Mazáček
• 1951–1954 – Martin Hanzlík
• 1954–1960 – Jozef Zatlkaj
• 1960–1970 – Ladislav Studenič
• 1970–1972 – František Mariš
• 1972–1987 – Ing. Ladislav Moštenan
• 1986–1990 – Ing. Ján Novotný
• 1990–1992 – dpt. Jozef Hlavina
• 1992–1994 – JUDr. Ivan Letaši
• 1994–1995 – Ing. Peter Forgáč
• 1995–1997 – Ing. Peter Klučka
• 1997–2007 – Ing. Ján Zachar
• 2007–2009 – Róbert Kadnár
• 2009- – Pavol Derkay

Former names of DPB

Over the course of the past century Public Transport Company Bratislava has had about 14 names.

• BEÚS – Bratislavská elektrická účastinná spoločnosť
• BKH – Elektrická lokálna železnica Bratislava- krajinská hranica
• BMEŽ – Bratislavská mestská elektrická železnica
• DOZAB – Dopravné závody hl. m. Bratislavy, komunálny podnik
• DPMB – Dopravný podnik mesta Bratislava
• DPHMB koncern – Dopravné podniky hl. m. SSR Bratislavy – koncern
• DZHMB – Dopravné závody hl. m. SSR Bratislavy, koncernový podnik
• DPB, š.p. – Dopravný podnik Bratislava, štátny podnik
• POHéV – Pozsony Országhatárszeli Helyiérdekú Villamos Vasút
• PVVV – Pozsonyi Város Villamos Vasút
• LWP – Lokalbahn Wien – (Pozsony) Pressburg (Pressburgerbahn)
• NOLB – Niederosterreichische Landdesbahnen – Dolnorakúske krajinské železnice
• DPB – Dopravný podnik Bratislava, štátny podnik
• DPB – Dopravný podnik Bratislava, akciová spoločnosť (today)

External links

• Official website
• Unofficial, but more complex website about public transport in Bratislava
• Basic information about public transport in Bratislava in English
• Bratislava vehicles descriptions