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Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail


MCC analysis for the Ariadne energy transition project shows 30 percent more rail journeys. The announced increase in price to 58 euros per month undoes half of this.

With regard to the future modal split, the announced price increase to 58 euros per month is highly counterproductive. Based on their empirical analyses, the researchers also predict how the announced price increase will change people’s mobility behaviour, and thus emissions. At a special meeting on 23 September 2024, the transport ministers of the German federal states decided to increase the price of the Deutschland-Ticket from 49 to 58 euros per month.

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