Short Trip Tariff

Since the 1st of June 2016 there is a new regulation of the short trip tariff. While traveling in Oberhausen you can remember the easy memory hook “short trip tariff = entrance plus three stops”

This regulation is also valid on our bus and tram trail. This means that the shopping center “Neue Mitte Oberhausen (Centro)” can be reached from the central station by short trip tariff.

Please note, short trip tariff:

• is valid for max. 20 minutes
  
  
• is not valid at night in our NightExpresses (NE)
  
  
• is not valid if you change busses

There are a few exceptions from the “entrance plus three stops” –settlement which affect you only in a positive way (traveling more than 3 stops). You can look them up here.

If you use the VRR-App or an app of any other transportation company before June 1st you have to update the tariff data.

Price Level A

Price level A applies to trips within a tariff zone. In the cities of Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen and Wuppertal, each consists of two tariff zones, tickets of price level A are valid for the entire urban area.

Moreover, price level A also applies to trips within two neighbouring cells of adjacent tariff zones with a direct transport connection. In the case of season tickets (monthly and annual season tickets) a distinction is made between the price categories A1, A2 and A3: 
 

• in 5 cities which offer a particularly good local transport service with numerous lines, short waiting times, NightExpress buses etc. price level A3 applies

• like price Level A3 price level A2 applies to trips between two neighbouring cells, providing that one of the two cells belongs to a tariff zone of price level A2 (price level A2 is used in 11 bigger cities)
  
  
• Price level A1 is applied in smaller cities and communities

All over Oberhausen tickets of Level A2 apply.

Price Level B

In price level B a distinction is made in the validity area according to the type of ticket: in the case of cash tickets, price level B always entitles to trips into the neighbouring tariff zone, and usually even to a tariff zone beyond that.

In the case of season tickets of price level B, a freely selectable central tariff zone has to be defined. A predefined validity area is allocated to each central tariff zone.

Price Level C

In price level C there are also differences between cash and season tickets:

• the cash ticket applies to trips across up to three or four tariff zones
  
  
• while in the case of season tickets it is required to define two neighbouring central tariff zones.
  The tickets of price level C then apply in the central tariff zones – which are also freely selectable, but have to be adjacent to each other – and all neighbouring tariff zones.

Price Level D

The tickets of price level D apply in the entire VRR area.