The city of Leipzig is located in the northwest of the German federal state of Saxony and has more than half a million inhabitants. It possesses an almost 150-kilometre-long tram network, which is the second largest in Germany after Berlin and has a special track gauge of 1,458 millimetres.
The trams as well as the city buses are operated by
→ Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB).