9.4.2019 Rastatt. The Mercedes-Benz plant in Rastatt, Germany, is gearing up for the spring and launches the pilot project “bike to work”. In the presence of Thomas Geier, site Manager of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Rastatt, Germany, were taken on two new Parking facilities as well as a new access system for bikes on a gates of the site in Rastatt in operation.
Thus, the employees of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Rastatt have the opportunity to take the own bike with the factory. A special access system on the gates, as well as new Bicycle Parking spaces for 200 bicycles are available. In addition, existing Bicycle Parking spaces outside of the Werkszauns have been equipped with a Video Surveillance, can the wheels still be safe until the celebration of evening Parking.
“It is a big concern to offer employees on-site in Rastatt ways that you can get every day to your workplace in the Mercedes-Benz plant in Rastatt, Germany. Right now, where spring beckons all to Free, the Bicycle is a great Alternative. In a traffic jam yesterday. With the pilot project, we are now creating the required infrastructure. And besides, you are doing something for the own health,“ said Thomas Geier, site Manager of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Rastatt, Germany.
The Pilot is scheduled to run for three months. In this time, are to be obtained with different actions, such as, for example, a free “Check” for the bike, as many Employees, commuting to and from work by Bicycle. A total of eight Bicycle stand at the Rastatt site Parking with space for 1508 bicycles at the factory gate and at the plant, five of which are under video surveillance. The additional is A – and exit to the factory for bicycles currently about a total of two additions possible – a gate and a special admission system at the gates. Within the plant, so 200 new bike were installed in Parking spaces that reduce the individual way to work again.
Shuttle service adds to the concept of mobility
A further building block for the reduction of traffic around the Mercedes-Benz plant in Rastatt, the introduction of a Shuttle service in the future, between Rastatt station and the plant site. Two Mercedes-Benz V-classes of employees in the commuting convenient to your workplace. The free Shuttle that starts from the middle of the year, facilitates and shortens the way to the workplace for the employees, because the Shuttle has four stops on the factory premises.
About the Mercedes-Benz plant in Rastatt
The Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant employs more than 6,500 employees and is the largest employer in the Region. In the global Mercedes-Benz production network of the Rastatt, Germany is the Lead plant for the compact-car production in the world. Here are the A – and B-class and the compact SUV GLA to be built. In the year 2018, walked in Rastatt, Germany, more than 300,000 vehicles. The production network of the compact car plant in Kecskemét, Hungary (A-class, CLA, CLA Shooting Brake), the Chinese production location BBAC (GLA, A-class L sedan), and the Finnish contract manufacturer Valmet Automotive (A-class). Were added in the year 2018, the Joint-Venture production plant COMPAS (A-class sedan) in Mexico, as well as the factory in Hambach, France. In Rastatt and Hambach in the future compact Mercedes-Benz electric vehicles product and technology-brand EQ to roll off the Assembly line.
The pilot project “With the bike to the factory” starts in the Mercedes-Benz plant in Rastatt: In the presence of Thomas Geier (6.v.l.), Location Manager Mercedes-Benz plant in Rastatt, Germany, were taken on two new Parking facilities as well as a new access system for bicycles at a factory gate of the site in Rastatt in operation.
