Today, HVV provides rail, bus and ferry transportation for an area of 8700 square kilometres with approximately 3.3 million inhabitants in the states of Hamburg , Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony . HVV has approximately 1.8 million customers on an average working day.
With an average of 50.000 commuters per day the HVV bus line ''Metrobus 5'' the busiest line in Europe. In the city centre, stops are served without a specific schedule every two to three minutes and since December 2005 , the world's longest, double- Articulated Bus ses are used.
As of 2004 , HVV comprised the following 38 partners:
- AKN Eisenbahn AG (AKN) , operating three commuter train lines
- Autokraft GmbH , operating bus lines
- Becker Reisen GmbH , operating two bus lines
- Dahmetal KG , operating bus lines
- Dammann-Reisen , operating one bus line in the Buxtehude area
- DB Regio AG (Region Niedersachsen/Bremen) , part of Deutsche Bahn group, operating train lines
- DB Regionalbahn Schleswig-Holstein GmbH (RBSH) , operating rail services
- Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser GmbH , operating rail and bus lines
- Globetrotter Reisen GmbH , operating two bus lines
- HADAG Seetouristik und Fährdienst AG , operating ferries on the Elbe river
- Hamburger Hochbahn AG , operating the three U-Bahn and many bus lines
- KVG Stade GmbH & Co. KG , operating bus lines
- KViP Kreisverkehrsgesellschaft in Pinneberg mbH , an organization like the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund
- LBB Linienbus Berkenthin GmbH, operating two bus lines
- Ludwigsluster Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH ,operating bus lines
- metronom Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH , operating rail services
- Mittelzentrumsholding Bad Segeberg-Wahlstedt GmbH & CO. KG, concessionary for some bus lines operated by Autokraft
- NBE nordbahn Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH & Co. KG , operating rail services
- Nord-Ostsee-Bahn GmbH , operating rail services
- Omnibusbetrieb Storjohann GmbH & Co. KG ,operating bus lines
- Otto Strunk Omnibusbetrieb GmbH, operating bus lines
- Pinneberger Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (PVG) , operating bus lines
- RMVB Ratzeburg-Möllner Verkehrsbetriebe mbH, operating bus lines
- Reese Reisen GmbH , operating bus lines
- Regionalbus GmbH RBB , operating two bus lines
- S-Bahn Hamburg GmbH , operating the S-Bahn lines
- Stadtverkehr Lübeck GmbH (SL) , operating bus lines
- Stadtwerke Bad Oldesloe, Ratzeburg und Mölln , operating bus lines
- Stadtwerke Norderstedt , operating one night bus line and coordinating public transportation in Norderstedt
- Süderelbe-Bus GmbH, operating one bus line
- Verkehrsbetriebe Osthannover GmbH , operating bus lines
- Verkehrsbetriebe Buchholz i.d.N. GmbH , operating bus lines
- Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein AG (VHH) , operating bus lines
- VKP Verkehrsbetriebe Kreis Plön GmbH ,operating bus lines
- Verkehrsgesellschaft Norderstedt mbH (VGN), owning two lines operated by Hamburger Hochbahn AG and AKN, respectively
- VGS Verkehrsgesellschaft Südholstein mbH, operating one bus line
- Zerbin Busreisen GmbH, operating one bus line
HVV was founded on November 29th 1965 with the three initial partners
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