Scenarios and Costs for Unified Reduced Ticket Pricing (URTP)

In September 2013 the Styrian Public Transport Association introduced a reduced ticket for pupils, which enables them to travel throughout the province of Styria with all public transport modes for 99€ a year. The introduction of this ticket united Styrian Student Unions with communities of interest, ProBim, Fahrgast and Fahrscheinlose Öffis and political party Die Grünen who opposed the introduction of this ticket and strive for the introduction of a similar ticket for students. This discussion was the trigger for this work. The goal of this book is to set up two hypothetical scenarios for a unified reduced ticket pricing for students in public transport in the province of Styria.