Time card
As a season ticket (also time ticket or season ticket ) is referred to in public passenger a ticket that entitled to unrestricted driving within a certain time, a certain area or on a particular route. The time card has similar user structures as flat rates . Mostly they are used in public transport , where they have become the dominant form of tickets. While the tariff regulations of the transport associations almost always provide for an area, with DB Regio it is only a trunk route.
Weekly, monthly and annual tickets
Season tickets with a validity of more than five days are often offered in local public transport as weekly tickets (for seven days from any day of the week or for a calendar week), monthly or annual tickets. Quarterly tickets also existed for the former Vienna Stadtbahn . Monthly tickets are also available as an annual subscription, whereby the fare can be debited monthly from a current account.
A further distinction must be made between
- Tickets "for everyone",
- time-dependent tickets that are valid before or after a certain time (usually 9:00 a.m.),
- Job tickets ,
- Social tickets ,
- Student tickets (see student collective time card ),
- Semester tickets ,
- Senior tickets and
- Additional tokens for taking bicycles with you .
There are transferable and personal season tickets. Personal cards are often only valid in conjunction with photo ID. There are also cards with a photo of the cardholder.
Some railway companies also offer annual network cards as part of their customer card programs .
In the GDR , some tram companies use special time-card vehicles (Z) or entire time-card trains (ZZ) during rush hour. In the former, only the railcar was not manned by a conductor , in the latter, the first of two sidecars also ran without a conductor . The reason for this rationalization measure was the prevailing staff shortage at the time.
Day tickets
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The day tickets for local public transport and long-distance transport include:
- Day tickets of the transport associations that are valid in the entire network area or only in part of it (for example in an urban area or in a tariff zone)
- Day tickets from individual transport companies that are only valid in their means of transport
- Nationwide offers, for example the day ticket for the Half-Fare travelcard in Switzerland (for all local and long-distance public transport, including individual ship lines) or the Have a Nice Weekend Ticket or the Cross-Country Ticket (only valid on rail transport) in Germany
- regional day tickets, such as the country tickets , the Euregio tickets or the SaarLorLux ticket
With regard to their period of validity, day tickets differ as follows:
- 24-hour tickets, valid for 24 hours from the purchase or depreciation
- Day tickets, mostly with validity from purchase or validation (at the earliest from midnight) to close of business or at a certain time of the following day (e.g. 3:00 a.m. or 6:00 a.m.)
- 9:00 a.m. day tickets, valid on workdays from 9:00 a.m., on weekends and public holidays all day
- Multi-day tickets for mostly two, three or four days or 48, 72 or 96 hours, especially as an offer for tourists, sometimes in connection with price reductions for certain cultural institutions such as museums or leisure facilities
- Weekend tickets valid on Saturdays and Sundays (former rule for the Nice Weekend Ticket, rarely as an extension of the validity of day tickets issued on Saturdays)
There are also bicycle day tickets for taking bicycles with you.
Short term cards
Instead of classic single tickets , a simple short-term tariff without special tariff structures can also be used. In contrast to route or zone-related single tickets, round trips, ring trips or return trips are also permitted. Buying such a time tariff ticket entitles you to travel for any length of time within the period of validity with the right to interrupt the journey and transfer. Typically, such short-term cards are valid for 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 only used extremely rarely; the East German tram companies in Plauen and Halberstadt use it. In the Eastern European countries, short-term cards were introduced from the 1990s onwards instead of the previous line-based systems (single tickets for a journey without changing trains to the end of a line). Example: Bratislava (15 and 60 minutes), Gdansk (10, 30, 60 minutes).
Scope of application
A time card that is valid in the entire transport network of a company, a transport association or a federal state is often referred to as a network card . Examples include the country Tickets, Happy Weekend Ticket (valid for the entire network of DB Regio as well as on many other local rail -lines and in city traffic, many transport associations), the BahnCard 100 of the Deutsche Bahn AG, the general ticket of the SBB , the Austria Card of the ÖBB or overall network maps of the transport associations. Partial network maps are also possible for certain areas within transport associations (e.g. individual rural districts , a large urban surrounding area, urban areas close together).
Sometimes the scope in which it is off-peak times greater than normal - for example in the traffic group apply VRR monthly tickets offered "Ticket 2000" from Monday to Friday from 19 pm on weekends and holidays throughout the VRR area (Price Level D), at these times can also a certain number of other people can be taken along. Additional tickets (connecting tickets ) or discounted single tickets are often offered for trips beyond the geographical area of validity of a season ticket .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Ordinance sheet for railways and shipping, edited by the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Railways in agreement with the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Commerce, sixteenth year, Vienna 1903, p. 155
- ↑ Magdeburg Chronicle of 1964 on uni-magdeburg.de, accessed on August 11, 2017