EgroNet

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The EgroNet is a cross-border European transport system in parts of the four-country region of Saxony , Thuringia , Bavaria , Bohemia ( Euroregion Egrensis ). The project, which was supported by the then Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labor , was represented as a registered project at the EXPO 2000 world exhibition in Hanover .

General

The core of the project is the cooperation of 63 transport companies ( bus , tram , rail ) in the area of ​​the Euregio Egrensis . The project makes future- oriented project investments possible based on the common past of the residents of the region (e.g. train / bus stop intersections, regional train route of the Vogtlandbahn in the center of Zwickau ). The project specializes in improving customer friendliness. In the tourism and traffic center of the project coordinator, Verkehrsverbund Vogtland , for example, all of the company's wireless networks come together. This enables passenger information that is always updated.

Line network of the EgroNet local transport system

The EgroNet extends over an area of ​​approx. 15,000 km² from Lichtenfels and Bayreuth in the west to Aue , Karlovy Vary and Mariánské Lázně in the east and from Gera and Zwickau in the north to Pegnitz and Weiden (Opf.) In the south. With a line network of 1,225 kilometers, an area with a total of 3.2 million inhabitants is served by local rail transport. In 2014, the network was expanded in the east to Chomutov , Vejprty , Blatno and Planá.

Tickets

A day ticket ("EgroNet-Ticket") that is only valid for second class costs 22 EUR (in Germany) or 200 Czech crowns (in the Czech Republic) for the 1st person, the 2nd to 5th person pay 7 EUR or 100 CZK additional. In Germany, a surcharge of EUR 2 is usually payable for staff-operated sales. You can travel with the participating transport companies until 3 a.m. the following day without any time restrictions. In addition, 3 children between 6 and 14 years of age (as well as any number of children under 6 years of age) are allowed to travel. Each person can take a bike with them at the same time, which is already included in the price. The surnames and first names of all travelers must be entered indelibly in block letters, official photo identification must be carried. Since it is a network ticket, it is valid in almost all public transport in the Euregio Egrensis (e.g. also in the Marienbad trolleybus and in the Karlsbad funiculars ).

With the changeover to the five-person system in December 2015, the number of users rose by more than 40 percent.

literature

  • Thomas Fischer: The Egronet - a transnational local transport project. in: Bahn-Report , issue 6/2013, pp. 64–66, publisher: Interest Group Rail Transport eV, Rohr, ISSN  0178-4528

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Thomas Fischer, p. 64
  2. ↑ eisenbahn-magazin 2/2014, p. 32
  3. ↑ Saxony: More and more passengers with EgroNet tickets are traveling. In: lok-report.de. March 27, 2018, accessed November 14, 2018 .