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2.5. Tickets and fares

The Transport Association Berlin-Brandenburg - VBB (Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg - VBB) started on 01 April 1999.
Therewith were associated extensive variations with the types of tickets and fares.
The following types of tickets and fares are valid from 01 January 2011.

Tickets are differentiated into

tickets with validity for one day
(cash ticket tariff)

and into

tickets with validity longer than one day
(commutation ticket tariff).

Tickets with validity for one day (cash ticket tariff)

Under the term - tickets with validity for one day (cash ticket tariff) - you can get the following tickets:

Single tickets
Daily ticket
Small group daily ticket

1.	Single tickets and single tickets reduced

(The stamp "Muster" means example.)

Single tickets are spend for local city transport amongst others within towns providing light rail rapid transport, thus also in Eberswalde. Single tickets entitle to one way trips including optional change of vehicle under use of the next corresponding connection towards targeted destination over the travel-usual or by the timetable situation caused way. Round trips and return journeys are excluded.

Stopovers are arbitrarily often allowed in Eberswalde within 30 minutes (see imprint of the ticket printer or stamp imprint of the canceler). After that the trolleybus or bus must unasked exited or a new ticket is to be bought or validated.

Single tickets in the reduction tariff apply only for children aged 6 to 14.

Single tickets and single tickets reduced, which were purchased in the advance sale, are to be validated from the passenger by using the ticket validators installed in the trolleybus or let validate. The passenger himself has to convince from the validation to.

Single tickets and single tickets reduced may be purchased in the advanced sale in Eberswalde in the form of multi-trip cards. The multi-trip cards consist of 3 sections to 2 tickets each, thus altogether of 6 tickets. The multi-trip cards are discounted and only valid to travel in the Eberswalde local city transport with trolleybuses or buses of the Barnimer Busgesellschaft mbH.

Discounted multi-trip card with 6 single tickets

Discounted multi-trip card with 6 single tickets reduced

The validated single tickets and single tickets reduced are nontransferable after departure.

2.	Daily tickets and daily tickets reduced

(The stamp "Muster" means example.)

Daily tickets are spend for local city transport amongst others within towns providing light rail rapid transport, thus also in Eberswalde. Daily tickets apply during the issue date printed on the tickets or from the validation for any journey that starts before 03:00 o'clock on the day following the expiry date within the selected tariff area.

Daily tickets in the reduction tariff apply only for children aged 6 to 14.

Daily tickets and daily tickets reduced, which were purchased in the advance sale, are to be validated from the passenger by using the ticket validator installed in the trolleybus or let validate. The passenger has himself to convince from the validation to.

With daily tickets and daily tickets reduced for the Eberswalde local city transport one may use all bus lines of the Barnimer Busgesellschaft Ltd., also the local city transport lines 861 , 862 ,864 and 865 as well as the regional transport lines 515, 883, 910, 912, 915, 916, 918, 919, 921, 922 and 923 within the Eberswalde city limits.

Daily tickets and daily tickets reduced may be purchased in the advanced sale in Eberswalde in the form of multi-trip cards. The multi-trip cards consist of 3 sections to 2 tickets each, thus altogether of 6 tickets. The multi-trip cards are discounted and only valid to travel in the Eberswalde local city transport with trolleybuses or buses of the Barnimer Busgesellschaft mbH.

Discounted multi-trip card with 6 Daily tickets

Discounted multi-trip card with 6 daily tickets reduced

The validated daily tickets and daily tickets reduced are nontransferable after departure.

3.	Small group daily tickets

(The stamp "Muster" means example.)

Small group daily tickets are spend for local city transport amongst others within towns providing light rail rapid transport, thus also in Eberswalde, in the advance sale for validation by start of journey or in the vehicle to the immediate start of journey.

Small group daily tickets apply during the issue date printed on the tickets or from the validation for any journey that starts before 03:00 o'clock on the day following the expiry date within the selected partitions of the tariff area or on the ticket stated greater townships.

Small group daily tickets are issued for max. five persons travelling together at all times.

Small group daily tickets, which require the validation, are to be validated immediately by start of journey from the passenger or let validate. The passenger has himself to convince from validation to.

The validated small group daily tickets are nontransferable after departure.

Tickets with validity longer than one day (commutation ticket tariff)

Under the term - commutation ticket tariff - tickets are offered with validity longer than one day. They may be acquired as the following tickets:

Monthly tickets VBB-Umweltkarte
7-day-tickets VBB-Umweltkarte
9:00 o'clock-tickets
Monthly tickets and 7-day-tickets for apprentices and students
Mobility tickets Brandenburg
Annual and subscription tickets

1.	Monthly tickets VBB-Umweltkarte

(The stamp "Muster" means example.)

The monthly tickets VBB-Umweltkarte (Umwelt means environment) are nonpersonal period tickets and transferable.

Monthly tickets VBB-Umweltkarte are issued for the calendar month, which ist stated on the ticket or token. They are valid from 00:00 o'clock of the last day of the previous month until 24:00 o'clock of the first day of the following month.

Monthly tickets VBB-Umweltkarte can start on any day of the month and are then valid for one "sliding" month (variable monthly ticket). They are valid to 24:00 o'clock of the day of the following month, which precedes in the number the first day of validity. By tickets with validity from 30 or 31 January ends the period of validity with expiration of the last day of the month February.

Additionally, you can take along an adult and up to 3 children ( 6 to 14 years of age) Mondays to Fridays from 20:00 to 03:00 o'clock the following day as well as Saturdays, Sundays, and on holidays all day. If in the countries Berlin and Brandenburg are different holiday regulations, then the entrainment regulation does apply only for the country, in which the official holiday applies.

The monthly tickets VBB-Umweltkarte may be acquired as annual and subscription tickets.

2.	7-day-tickets VBB-Umweltkarte

(The stamp "Muster" means example.)

7-day-tickets VBB-Umweltkarte are spend to everyone and are transferable. They apply within the on them indicated partitions of the tariff area to seven consecutive calendar days. Their validity begins at the first imprinted calender day 00:00 o'clock and ends at the seventh calender day at 24:00 o'clock.

In the advance sale acquired 7-day-tickets VBB-Umweltkarte for towns providing light rail rapid transport, thus also in Eberswalde, for the tariff areas of the district-free cities or for the tariff area Berlin respectively partitions of these tariff areas are to be validated immediately by start of the first journey from the passenger. The passenger has himself to convince from the validation to. The validity ends on the seventh calendar day after validation at 24:00 o'clock.

Additionally, you can take along an adult and up to 3 children ( 6 to 14 years of age) Mondays to Fridays from 20:00 to 03:00 o'clock the following day as well as Saturdays, Sundays, and on holidays all day. If in the countries Berlin and Brandenburg are different holiday regulations, then the entrainment regulation does apply only for the country, in which the official holiday applies.

3.	9:00 o'clock-tickets

(The stamp "Muster" means example.)

9:00 o'clock-tickets are spend to everyone and are transferable. They apply only in towns providing light rail rapid transport, thus also in Eberswalde, and in the fare areas of the district-free cities Brandenburg an der Havel, Frankfurt (Oder) und Potsdam and their partitions.

They apply

Mondays until Friday between 09:00 to 03:00 o'clock of the following day,
on Saturdays, on Sundays and on official holidays full-time.

9:00 o'clock-tickets can start on any day of the month. They are valid to 24:00 o'clock of the day of the following month, which precedes in the number the first day of validity. By tickets with validity from 30 or 31 January ends the period of validity with expiration of the last day of the month February.

9:00 o'clock-tickets may be issued also for the calendar month, which ist stated on the ticket or token. They are valid from 00:00 o'clock of the last day of the previous month until 24:00 o'clock of the first day of the following month.

9:00 o'clock-tickets may be acquired as annual and subscription tickets.

4.	Monthly tickets and 7-day-tickets for apprentices and students

(The stamp "Muster" means example.)

7-day-tickets for apprentices and students

7-day-tickets for apprentices and students sliding

Monthly tickets and 7-day-tickets for apprentices and students are personal commutation tickets. They are nontransferable.

Monthly tickets for apprentices and students can start on any day of the month. They are valid to 24:00 o'clock of the day of the following month, which precedes in the number the first day of validity. By tickets with validity from 30 or 31 January ends the period of validity with expiration of the last day of the month February.

Monthly tickets for apprentices and students may be issued also for the calendar month, which ist stated on the ticket or token. They are valid from 00:00 o'clock of the last day of the previous month until 24:00 o'clock of the first day of the following month.

7-day-tickets for apprentices and students apply for seven consecutive calendar days. Their validity begins at the first imprinted calender day 00:00 o'clock and ends at the seventh calender day at 24:00 o'clock.

7-day-tickets for apprentices and students are only valid in the tariff areas of the country Brandenburg.

Personal commutation tickets for apprentices and students consist of a VBB store card with valid token, photo and the date of the end of validity. They are only valid, if the VBB store card is lettered with the first and the last name and the number of the VBB store card is lettered on the valid token. By subscription the contract number is to be transferred onto the valid token to the VBB store card from the owner to. VBB store card for apprentices/students are to be attached generally with a photo. The VBB store card owner must let fixed his photo in one of the especially published issuing offices of the transport enterprises on the VBB store card.

Personal commutation tickets become invalid to the VBB store card indicated time. It lose furthermore their validity with expiration of the month in which the conditions, under which they were granted, are no more fulfilled.

Monthly tickets for apprentices and students and if necessary 7-day-tickets for apprentices and students receive:

a) school-age persons up to the age of 14

b) persons over the age of 15:

(1) apprentices and students of public schools, state authorized or state-approved private

general-education schools
vocational schools,
second-chance colleges,
universities, academies

with exception of the administrative academies, adult education centers and national adult education centers.

(2) persons, who visit private schools (alternative schools, complementary schools) or other educational institutions, which do not fall under (1), as far as they are relieved based on the visit of these schools and educational institutions from the duty to visit the vocational schools or as far as the visit of these schools and other private educational institutions is promotion capable after the Federal Education and Trainings Assistance Act;

(3) persons, who visit courses at adult education centers or another facilities of the further education for the additional acquisition of the CSE or secondary school graduation;

(4) persons, who are in a professional training relation in the sense of the German Vocational Training Act or in another contractual relationship according to article 19 of the German Vocational Training Act as well as persons, who are trained in an institution outside of the industrial training according to article 40 paragraph 3 of the German Vocational Training Act, article 37 paragraph 3 of the Handicrafts Code;

(5) persons, who visit a state-approved vocational preparation course;

(6) student apprentices and improvers may get this ticket if they are doing or will be doing a practical course or a voluntary service, while or following a state regulated education or a study at a university according to the legal regulations for education and study;

(7) official aspirants of the lower and middle grade of the civil service as well as student apprentices and persons, which must acquire the qualification for the accreditation by attendance of an administrative training course as official aspirants of the lower and middle grade of the civil service only, if they do not receive driving costs compensation from the administration;

(8) participants in a voluntary social or ecological year or comparable social service.

The institutions, which count to the afore mentioned training centres, determine the competent administrative posts of the federal state Berlin and the federal state Brandenburg.

Employed persons, vocational apprentices and apprentices, which refer allowance after the Social Security Code, volume III (SGB III), as well as persons, who are in a internship, do not receive monthly tickets for apprentices and students. This applies also to persons, who visit training courses, coaching courses or language schools.

The proof of the authorisation accomlished by the presentation of an template after the prescribed sample. In the application have in the case of the paragraph b) cypher (1) to (7) the training post or the apprentices, in the case of paragraph b) cypher (8) the responsible body of the respective community services certify that in each case the relevant preconditions are given. The certificate may not be older than 30 days.

By delivery of the request in the transportation companies the apprentices have to submit their indenture, if necessary with supplements, as well as a personnel document.

The authorization for the availment of monthly tickets for apprentices and students and 7-day-tickets for apprentices and students is granted at the longest for one year after issue of the certificate and can be made dependent from the in due time delivery and proper completion of special inquiry documents, if the inquiry has the law of conveyance of passengers (PBefG) as basis.

Students must submit the student ID with valid semester stamp or the valid semester card. For each semester the monthly tickets for apprentices and students is to be requested again.

For the issue of monthly tickets for apprentices and students as annual and subscription tickets apply special appointments.

5.	Mobility tickets Brandenburg

(The stamp "Muster" means example.)

The mobility tickets Brandenburg are personal commutation tickets and nontransferable. They are spent to one up to 50 per cent reduced price. The mobility tickets Brandenburg are spent exclusively as monthly tickets, amongst others in towns providing light rail rapid transport, thus also in Eberswalde.

The mobility tickets Brandenburg are valid in principle for all railways and buses of the VBB in the country Brandenburg. The mobility ticket Brandenburg can be acquired depending on individual demand for different pay levels. Within the area of application the railways and buses can arbitrarily often used within a month. The mobility tickets Brandenburg are not valid for trips to Berlin.

Requirement on the mobility tickets have

recipients of benefits after the SGB II (Social Security Code II) including social benefits,
recipients of regular benefits of the welfare (Social Security Code, volume XII including recipients of basic social security at the age and during reduction in earning capacity),
beneficiaries according to Asylum Seeker Benefit Law
members of communities of members of a household in need of benefit.

The mobility ticket Brandenburg consists of a VBB mobility ticket store card with photo and duration limits and also a corresponding token. The verification of the authorization for the mobility ticket Brandenburg, the issue of the VBB mobility ticket store card and applying the photo takes place through the respective administration in the districts and urban municipalities of the country Brandenburg.

Tokens can be acquired only by that above mentioned beneficiaries after the certification of the authorization within the validity period of the VBB mobility ticket store card. The tokens are only valid if the number of the VBB mobility ticket store card is lettered in the destined field on the token. With the abolition of the authorisation for the acquisition of the mobility ticket Brandenburg the VBB mobility ticket store card is to be returned to the issuing office.

The mobility ticket Brandenburg can start on any day of the month. They are valid to 24:00 o'clock of the day of the following month, which precedes in the number the first day of validity. By tickets with validity from 30 or 31 January ends the period of validity with expiration of the last day of the month February.

The mobility ticket Brandenburg is valid for any number of trips within the indicated area of application. The mobility ticket Brandenburg is nontransferable. The mobility ticket Brandenburg is not available as annual or subscription ticket. User of the mobility ticket Brandenburg can entrain a dog for free.

6.	Annual and subscription tickets

Here now three examples of annual and subscription tickets:

Annual ticket VBB-Umwelt with single payment

Monthly coupon of the Annual ticket VBB-Umwelt in subscription

Monthly coupon of the Annual-9:00 o'clock-ticket with single payment

(The stamp "Muster" means example.)

In the common tariff of the transportation companies cooperating in the Transportation Association Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB tariff), are spent below specified annual and subscription tickets. They consist of a VBB store card and 12 valid token corresponding the VBB tariff.

The respective token coins or value monthly coupons are valid from 00:00 o'clock of the last day of the previous month until 24:00 o'clock of the first day of the next month.

Annual tickets are differed into transferable and personal annual tickets as well as into transferable and personal subscription tickets:

Transferable annual tickets

Transferable annual tickets are offered as VBB-Umweltkarten (Umwelt means environment). Beyond it 9:00 o'clock-tickets are offered in towns providing light rail rapid transport, thus also in Eberswalde, as transferable annual tickets. Transferable annual tickets are prepaid in an amount alternatively bar, by bank transfer, if necessary cashless on vending machines or by debit advice procedure (once only debit entry from a account in advance starting from the first working day of the month in which the validity period begins).

The acquisition of the annual tickets is possible at all selling points of the transportation companies if necessary on vending machines or by order via the Internet. By bank transfer or using debit entries takes place the dispatch by mailing or by a delivery service.
Personal annual tickets

Monthly tickets and 7-day-tickets for apprentices and students are offered as personal annual tickets.

Personal annual tickets are prepaid in an amount alternatively bar, by bank transfer or by debit advice procedure (once only debit entry from a account in advance starting from the first working day of the month in which the validity period begins) available in specifically named selling points of the transportation companies.
Transferable subscription tickets

Transferable subscription tickets are offered as VBB-Umweltkarten (Umwelt means environment). Beyond it 9:00 o'clock-tickets are offered in towns providing light rail rapid transport, thus also in Eberswalde, as transferable subscription tickets. They are exclusively distributed in the debit advice procedure. Their equivalent amount are debited directly in monthly partial amounts from the account (in advance starting from the first working day of the current month).
Personal subscription tickets

Personal subscription tickets (period tickets for apprentices and students) are exclusively distributed in the debit advice procedure. Their equivalent amount are debited directly in monthly partial amounts from the account (in advance starting from the first working day of the current month).

For annual and subscription tickets applies further conditions, in particular for

the application of the participation at the debit advice procedure,
the receipt of the tokens,
the transaction of the debit advice procedure (debit entries),
the extensions and changes of the contracts,
the renewal of the VBB store card,
loss of tokens,
the notices of cancellation as well as
the fare refunding of the personal annual and subscription tickets.

Generally you drive more low-priced with annual and subscription tickets. If you conclude a subscription, you pay the fare for 10 months and can drive 12 months. With single payment you pay even only for 9,7 months and can drive 12 months.

For the last time on 01 January 2011 the Transport Association Berlin-Brandenburg - VBB (Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg - VBB) accomplished a tariff adjustment.

Here now an overview of the current fares valid from 01 January 2011 for the city traffic Eberswalde:

Types of tickets	normally	reduced
Single ticket	1.30 €	1.00 €
Discounted multi-trip card with 6 single tickets	7.00 € (per Single ticket ∼ 1.17 €)	5.00 € (per Single ticket ∼ 0.83 €)
Daily ticket	2.90 €	2.20 €
Discounted multi-trip card with 6 Daily tickets	16.00 € (per Daily ticket ∼ 2.67 €)	11.00 € (per Daily ticket ∼ 1.83 €)
Small group ticket (up to 5 persons)	6.70 €	-
Monthly ticket VBB-Umwelt	30.00 €	22.50 €
7-day-ticket VBB-Umwelt	9.80 €	7.20 €
9:00 o'clock-ticket	25.30 €	-
Annual ticket VBB-Umwelt in subscription	300.00 €	225.00 €
Annual ticket VBB-Umwelt with single payment	291.00 €	218.30 €
Annual-9:00 o'clock-ticket in subscription	253.00 €	-
Annual-9:00 o'clock-ticket with single payment	245.50 €	-
Mobility tickets Brandenburg for the city Eberswalde	15.00 €	-

Passengers, who are in the possession of valid tickets, can take along

children under the age of 6 and
a perambulator and
luggage

for free.

For dogs must be acquired a single ticket reduced, if the passenger is on the way with a single ticket. For free is the entrainment of a dog for period ticket owners. To it belongs monthly tickets, subscription and annual tickets and severely handicapped passes with supplementary sheet and valid token coin. Also with daily tickets or small group cards a dog can be carried for free.

Guide dogs, which lead blind or visually impaired people, are carried generally for free.

If passengers carry several dogs forward, a single ticket reduced or a daily ticket reduced is to be acquired and cancelled for the second and if necessary each further dog.

Following persons may travel for free:

severely handicapped person with severely handicapped pass with supplementary sheet and valid token coin of the pension office
escorts of severely handicapped person, if the necessity of the permanent escort emanate from the severely handicapped pass
wheel chairs and miscellaneous orthopaedic adjuvant, if the passenger have a valid ticket or severely handicapped pass and the type of the vehicle the entrainment allow
policemen of the federal states Brandenburg and Berlin and of the Federal Police in their uniform with a valid document.

Tickets for the trolleybus can be obtained from all bus drivers (except BVG) and in the respective advance booking offices in the catchment area of the Transport Association Berlin-Brandenburg - VBB (Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg - VBB).

On the other hand you may acquire tickets for all means of transportion from the trolleybus drivers (thus trolleybus, bus, tram, underground, city railway and regional and regional express trains of the Deutsche Bahn AG and the Ostdeutschen Eisenbahn GmbH) and for all destinations within the ambit of the Transport Association Berlin-Brandenburg - VBB (Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg - VBB) and some defined places, lying outside of the VBB tariff area, in the Republic of Poland.

Each passenger should inquire before departure about the travel conditions. Detailed information about the travel conditions can be obtained from the placard in the buses and at the sales agencies.

Further information about additional and separate regulations and provisions are contained in the valid VBB tariff (common tariff of the transportation companies cooperating in the Transport Association Berlin-Brandenburg - VBB [Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg - VBB]).

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