transit pass
As time card (also time ticket or season ticket ) is called in public passenger a ticket that entitles the holder to unlimited travel within a certain time, a certain area or on a specific route. The time card has similar user structures such as flat rates. Mostly they are used in public transport, where they were the dominant form of tickets. While the tariff provisions of the transport associations almost always provide a surface area, it is just a regular route at DB Regio.
Weekly, monthly and annual tickets
Cards with a validity of more than five days are often offered in public transport as weekly tickets ( for seven days from any day of the week or a calendar week), monthly or annual tickets. Monthly passes, there is also an annual subscription, the fare can be debited monthly from a checking account. A distinction is made between further
- Ticket " for everyone"
- Time-dependent tickets covering before or after a certain time (usually 9:00 clock )
- Job Tickets
- Social tickets
- Student tickets ( see student sample time card)
- SemesterTicket
- Senior tickets
- Additional tokens for the carriage of bicycles.
There are transferable and -personal time cards. Persons Bound cards are often only in combination with a photo ID. There are also cards with photo of the cardholder.
Some railway companies also offer year network cards as part of their loyalty card programs.
Day tickets
The day tickets for public transport include:
- Day tickets the transport associations that apply to the entire network area or only part of it ( for example in an urban area ): 24 -hour tickets, valid for 24 hours from the purchase or depreciation
- Day tickets usually valid from purchase ( the earliest from 0:00 clock ) until closing or until 3:00 clock the following day
- 9- clock - day tickets, valid on weekdays from 9 clock, on weekends and bank holidays all day
Short time cards
Instead of the classic single tickets, a simple short-term rate can be applied without any special tariff structures. In contrast to stretch or zone-specific single tickets here also round, ring or return trips are prohibited. The release of such period rate ticket allows unlimited long journeys within the time period with trip interruption and Umsteigeberechtigung. Typically, such short-term tickets are valid 10 to 15 minutes for short trips (corresponding to a short- distance ticket ) or 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes.
In Germany this simple tariff principle is rarely applied; the East German tram operations in Plauen and Halberstadt use it. In the Eastern European countries short time cards were introduced from the 1990s instead of the previous line -related systems (single ticket for a ride without change until the endpoint of a line ). Example: Bratislava ( 15 and 60 minutes), Gdansk (10, 30, 60 minutes).
Scopes
A time card that is valid throughout the transport network of a company, a transport system or a federal state is often referred to as a network card. Examples are the regional tickets, the Happy-Weekend - Ticket (valid throughout the network of DB Regio, as well as on many other regional rail lines and in city traffic of numerous transport associations ), the rail card 100 of Deutsche Bahn AG, the general ticket SBB, the Austria Card ÖBB or total power maps of the transport associations. Also subnet maps for particular areas are possible within transport networks ( eg individual counties, a metropolitan area surrounding, closely spaced urban areas ).
Sometimes the scope in the off-peak time is greater than regular -. , For example, monthly tickets offered in the VRR "Ticket 2000 " Monday to Friday, from 19 clock, on weekends and holidays throughout the grid are Additional tickets ( tickets connection ) or discounted single tickets are often offered for trips beyond the territorial scope of a time card out.