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Despite a popular €9 ticket ($9.80) being introduced for three months last summer, ridership on public transport in Germany did not reach pre-pandemic numbers last year and was down by 14%, according to official figures.
With 10.2 billion passengers, the number of people using public transport showed a 29% increase in comparison to 2021, which was even more affected by the pandemic, the German Statistical Office (Destatis) said on Thursday.
The €9 ticket’s successor, a flat-rate ticket for public transport nationwide for €49 per month is being introduced from May 1. It is meant to make public transportation more attractive.
The weakest year since the beginning of records in 2004 was 2021 with a total of 7.9 billion passengers.
The official figures include long-distance train and bus customers. In 2022, a total of 138 million passengers were recorded, an increase of 62% over the previous year. With 7.5 million passengers, scheduled long-distance bus services saw a customer increase of 163%.
Passenger numbers on public transport as a whole increased by 29%, but were down 14% against pre-pandemic figures recorded in 2019.
