Collective equality
Collective bargaining is a process in which rail fares to and from certain cities are standardized. This means that several train stations in a city can be reached for the same fare. In Germany, this procedure is used in more than 40 cities.
In Berlin, for example, there is only one tariff point called “BERLIN” for all train stations on and within the Berlin Ringbahn . The fare for the destinations Berlin Zoologischer Garten or Berlin Alexanderplatz is therefore the same from a distance of one hundred kilometers. The Berlin Friedrichstrasse train station is used as a price-setting tariff point for the kilometer-based local transport tariffs. In Berlin there were tickets with the imprint "Berlin Stadtbahn" since 1898, which included the inner-city train stations and at times also long-distance train stations outside the inner city. In 2006 this designation was abolished and replaced by the tariff designation "BERLIN".
The tariff equality can be limited to tickets from a certain length of the journey. With the introduction of the City-Ticket , an "extended tariff equality" was introduced for tickets from 100 km for all train stations in the participating city, which is not valid for season tickets.
A similar process takes place in other countries, called station grouping in Great Britain . A ticket from or to the inner-city train stations in London is usually issued to “London Terminals”, not to a specific train station.
Web links
List of train stations in Germany with equivalent tariffs (PDF; as of December 15, 2019)
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn: Kursbuch der DR Binnenverkehr 1988/89 , p. 6
- ↑ Peter Neumann, The Stadtbahn disappears from the ticket , Berliner Zeitung, April 12, 2006