Spring fares in the VRR. It's going to be easy from now on!
Our major fare reform will start on 1 March 2025 and will make travelling by bus and train even easier. More clarity, less choice of tickets and best of all: 90 per cent of our passengers will be able to travel more cheaply in future!
From 1 March 2025, the VRR tariff will include the following range:
Tickets for frequent travelers
Tickets for occasional riders
The price levels: Turn 7 into 3
From 1 March 2025, there will only be three price levels. Price level A for journeys within a city, price level B for journeys to a neighbouring city and price level C for journeys in the entire VRR area.
The building blocks of the major fare reform in VRR
The DeutschlandTicket - for frequent travelers.
With the DeutschlandTicket you are mobile throughout Germany: the large product family offers many target groups a favourable subscription model.
Occasionally on the move with the digital ticket eezy.nrw
With eezy.nrw, the price of your journey is calculated digitally based on the distance as the crow flies between your start and destination.
Simplified price levels and reduced ticket range
Our attractive and flexible offers are a good alternative to cars and the like. Switch now and join in.
The advantages at a glance
...for passengers
- DeutschlandTicket as an attractively priced offer for nationwide public transport
- eezy.nrw as a convenient, flexible and fair future tariff for journeys throughout NRW
- Simplification to just three price levels
- Easy access to local public transport by removing barriers and obstacles to use
- Customers receive a simple selection and suitable offers for their individual needs
Questions about the tariff reform
FAQs
The changes will come into force on 1 March 2025.
We are reducing the familiar VRR range by 75 per cent to a clear basic offer. These fare offers will no longer be available from 1 March 2025:
For occasional travellers they are:
48-StundenTicket (in all variants), HappyHourTicket, 10erTicket, all FlexTickets (Flex25, Flex35 and FlexSozial), 4-StundenTicket, 4erZusatzTicket, 4erTicket as a digital multi-journey ticket.
Not applicable for regular travellers:
Ticket1000 (as a season ticket, monthly ticket, 30-day ticket and 9 o'clock variant), YoungTicketPLUS (as a monthly ticket and season ticket), BärenTicket, FirmenTicket discount model, wholesale discount model, Vorkursticket and the supplementary surcharges for VRS and AVV job tickets.
We are also simplifying the fare structures in the VRR network area by reducing the price levels. From 1 March 2025, there will only be one price level A for journeys within a city, price level B for journeys to a neighbouring city or the immediate surrounding area and price level C for journeys throughout the entire VRR network area.
The traditional VRR fare - both for frequent and occasional travellers - has fallen sharply: 95% of regular VRR customers have switched to the DeutschlandTicket product family. At the same time, sales in the occasional traveller segment have fallen by around 35% - not least because many passengers have switched to the attractively priced DeutschlandTicket.
You can now use the digital eezy.nrw ticket as a low-cost alternative to short-distance travel. The new price level C is the previous price level D and now covers the entire VRR network area. Price level D will therefore no longer apply.
No, you do not have to cancel your travelcard. Your transport company will contact you promptly and offer you a change to another product.
Season tickets in the discontinued products and price levels expire automatically on 28 February 2025. Your transport company will inform you of alternatives in good time.
You can still use your occasional tickets purchased between 01.01.2025 and 28.02.2025 until 31.12.2025.
No, if you have a season ticket, your transport company will contact you in good time. If you have occasional tickets with a 2024 fare status, you can use them as usual until 31 December 2025.
With the fare reform, VRR is following the trend that customers have set in recent years through their purchasing and usage behaviour. For 90 per cent of customers, travelling by bus and train will be cheaper than before if they use the digital eezy.nrw ticket in future. In a few cases, it will be more expensive because structures change or products are no longer available. What is certain, however, is that suitable tickets will be available for all travel occasions and the fare landscape in the VRR will become simpler.
No, a single ticket and bicycle ticket can still be purchased in the vehicle. All other tickets are available from ticket machines, at sales points and online.
Due to the cancellation of price levels K, A1, A2 and C, the price caps will also be removed for eezy. The price caps for price levels A, B, C and the monthly cap of €58.00 for the DeutschlandTicket will continue to apply (price as at 1 January 2025).
The 2-comb tariff will remain in place.
You can still use the open journeys until 31 December 2025. After that, please contact your transport company if you still have open journeys. If you would prefer a refund for open journeys or an exchange for another product, please contact your local transport company.