Chinese Version: 德国公共交通常见类型解读
The public transportation system in Germany is mature all over the world, when you travel in cities or suburbs you can take busses, trams and subways；between cities, regions and nations you can travel with German Railways, Flix buses or trains and aircrafts, and now Norman will try to explain the difference between those types of public transportations
German Long-Distance Transportation---Fernverkehr
The train routes travel between states of Germany, usually in white with red line on the body of train and printed with the words like IC,EC,ICE, these trains commonly without stop at the stations under German railways station categories 3. The semester tickets usually not available for these trains (but with special occasions like the IC,EC route near Emden for the Semesterticket in Lower Saxony)
20.05.2018 Cologne Main Station
German Long-Distance Transportation---Eurocity Express (ECE)
Fernverkehr---Eurocity Express (ECE)
The high speed trains connect the big cities in Europe, the maximal speed can be 250km/h
German Long-Distance Transportation---Intercity Express (ICE)
Fernverkehr---Intercity Express (ICE)
20.10.2017 Erfurt Main Station
The high speed trains connect the big cities in Germany or Europe, the maximal speed can be 300km/h, sometimes it can also stop at a few small sities
German Long-Distance Transportation---Intercity, Eurocity(IC,EC)
Fernverkehr---Intercity, Eurocity(IC,EC)
22.12.2017 Frankfurt Airport Long-Distance Station
10.10.2018 Berlin Main Station
Slower than ICE, but fast the same like ICE, sometimes the vehicles are the same for ICE
German Long-Distance Transportation---Nightjet
Fernverkehr---Nightjet
The night trains by Austria railway company(ÖBB), Usually with sleeping car
German Long-Distance Transportation---EuroNight
Fernverkehr---EuroNight
31.08.2018 Berlin Main Station
The transeurope train operated by train companies form different countries in Europe and it can even reach Moscow
German Long-Distance Transportation---Car travel train
Fernverkehr---Autoreisezug(ARZ)
The train which carry the cars likes from Hamburg to cities like Munich, Vienna and to nations like Ausiria and Italy
Trans Europe line operated by Railway Companies in Europe ---Thalys
Train à Grande Vitesse(TGV)---Thalys
20.05.2018 Cologne Main Station
High speed train travel among Germany, Netherland, Belgium and France
German Long-Distance Transportation---IC Bus
Fernverkehr---IC Bus
Long-Distance Bus
Flixbus
Long-Distance Bus
Flixtrain
20.05.2018 Cologne West Station
New established train company and runs long-distance train，similar to "Fernverkehr" of German Railway, even the vehicles, the infrastructures arefrom German Railway, but tickets cost less than German Railway.
German short-distance transportations --- Nahverkehr
Mostly in a federal state in Germany to connect villiages and cities there.
German short-distance transportations--Regionalexpress,Regionaltrain(RE,RB)
Nahverkehr--- Regionalexpress, Regionalbahn(RE,RB)
30.08.2018 Leipzig Main Station
20.05.2018 Cologne Main Station
20.05.2018 Lehrte Station
Norman think that usually the RE are electric-powered vehicles with Pantograph over the train and mainly runs at the tracks where regions surrounded are rich, RB are usually diesel powered trains runs at the tracks without overhean line, there are no entitative differences between RE and RB, the special train numbers like EB from the erfurter railway is also German short-distance transportations.
German short-distance transportations---Interregio-Express(IRE)
Nahverkehr---Interregio-Express(IRE)
German short-distance transportations---Schnelllbahn,Regio-S-Bahn,RegioTram(S-Bahn,RS,RT)
Nahverkehr--- Schnelllbahn,Regio-S-Bahn,RegioTram(S-Bahn,RS,RT)
07.11.2018 Hannover Nordstadt Station
03.08.2016 Berlin Main Station
18.08.2018 Dortmund Main Station
30.08.2018 Leipzig Main Station
The symbol of S-Bahn is a green circle with a white "S", slow trainslike the "Urban rail transit" in China to service for cities and the suburbs, the trains are the same as RE, RB
The trains form Regio-S-Bahn are also those service for RE,RB
RegioTram(RT) operated by German Railway use the tracks and platforms form German Railway and the platform seems not so different as those from other trains in German Railway（The Semesterticket allowded to use RT between stations Kassel Hbf and Kassel Wilhelmshöhe）
The Government of Brunswick have planned to build S-Bahn route in the Brunswick City and planned to operate with diesel trains
If has been approved,then......
German short-distance transportations---Moor Express
18.08.2018 Bremen Main Station
A travel route between Bremen and the Estuary to north see, to takt this train you need booking and price of this train is between 4 to 15 euro, the train need to by special tickets and the tickets like day ticket, stateticket , semestertickets and so on are all not available, but if you have a traffic ticket from Bremen(VRB) then you can get a discount.
German short-distance transportations---Bus by German Railway
Nahverkehr--- Bus bei der Deutsche Bahn
16.03.2018 Goslar Station
22.08.2018 Outside Wolfsburg Factory
The shuttle-Bus operated by German Railway and these busses can reach the mega factory or in mountains where trains cannot arrive, semestertickets, state tickets and so on are available
Shuttle Bus runs between Munich Airport and Munich Main Station，one way costs 45 minutes，frequency of departure is every 15 minutes
From Munich Airport：start at 6:30，end at 22:30
From Munich Main Station：start at 5:15，end at 20:00
Price(euro)：One-way 10,5，go and return 17（The price for online-booking，the date for go and return can be different）, you don't have to present Lufthansa fly ticket to board the bus just need to pay fee for bus
City Transportation---Trams
Stadtverkehr---Straßenbahn(STR)
02.08.2016 Dresden
City Transportation---BUS
Stadtverkehr---BUS
23.05.2018 Oberhausen
27.10.2018 Brunswick
City Transportation---Subway
Stadtverkehr---U-Bahn
04.08.2016 Olympia Station Berlin
Same as S-Bahn but these trains are operated by city public transportation instead of German Railway, you can also use day ticket semestertickets and so on to take them, the cities like Cologne, Bonn, Hannover and so on call the trams run underground also subway.
City Transportation---Monorail
Stadtverkehr---Schwebebahn
22.05.2018 Wuppertal
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Attention：
0. The public transport ticket in Germany usually with time and boundary limit，but under these dimensions you can take all kinds of transportations
S-Bahn(Schnellbahn)and Straßenbahn are not easy to distinguish but they are not the same，Pay attention of the semesterticket which type of transportation is allowed or may be punished with 60 Euro because of missunderstanding!
There is basically no turnstile in public transport in Germany, but you must buy a ticket and punch (Validierung) at the ticket machine. If you use a ticket without a punch, you can use it as a fare evasion. The penalty is 60 Euro. Pay attention to the range of use of the ticket. Under the circumstances, it is not allowed to exceed the range. I remember that the ticket inspectors of the S-Bahn München are very unfriendly. If they find out that they are beyond the scope, they will be treated as evasive tickets, so they should pay more attention to public transport in Munich.
If you feel that the toilet at the train station is too expensive, you can "borrow" the toilets on RERB trains at this station (ICs such as Leipzig, Dresden, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, etc., EC or ICE trains) to solve the problem, but pay attention to the opening of the train should be at least 4 minutes from the time you start to solve the problem, because you must be sure to leave the train before the train leaves, otherwise the train will start and you will be seen as evasion ticket.
After booking a discount card (Bahncard) on the German railway, you must send an email to the German railway Bahncard customer service.
Bahncard-service@bahn.de send an E-mail to cancel, otherwise it may be automatically rebooked. The ticket booked with the Bahncard should be set in the booking option to select the type of concession card you ordered, in the train ticket of Fernverkehr. There is the word "XX (city name) + City", which proves that you are free to take all public transportation in this city, but there are time and regional restrictions, see the webpage of German Railway.
German railways are often late and many are late for more than half an hour. So you should give more time for that when plan for travel.
Drinking alchohl is usually prohibited on trains in northern Germany.
In some mountains, there are fewer people on the train. In order to save energy, the Deutsche Bahn will separate the two cars in different directions in one place (Zugteilung), pay attention to whether the word is displayed on the display, if you can’t understand the display, ask a German with English.
21.04.2018 Wolfsburg Main Station
8.When you see the word "Zugdurchfahrt" on the display, keep away from the platform in order to keep your life safe.
9. In Germany, you can only buy a second-class seat in the second-class seat. You can't sit in the first-class seat. also when seat there is available.
10. German ticket inspectors do not have the right to detain and deport foreigners. In case of intimidation you can call the police. Neither the ticket inspector cannot directly charge a fine, nor can he only charge a fine without issuing a ticket or receipt. If necessary, you can ask the ticket inspector to produce a work certificate. If he does not produce a work permit, you can refuse to pay the fine.
11. German Railway's train reservation system and the train ticket system are separate. The trainseat can be reserved without a reservation. If you want to change another train, it is not enough to change only the seat reservation. For example, if you use Sparpreis to buy a train ticket for ICE888 is also the same as the train reservation, but later you corract the seat reservation for the ICE999 without spending money to by a vaild ICE 999 train ticket, but the train ticket is still ICE888, so that is also evasion of ticket, unless you buy again. A train ticket for ICE999.
12. If you need to sign a ticket for the purchase of a state ticket, the ticket for the multi-person ticket must also be signed on the ticket and ticket at the ticket machine. Otherwise, it may be invalid.
13.If you have no valid ticket for train (Fahrkarte or Fahrschein) then you should buy platform ticket (Bahnsteigkarte) on the platform at subway (U-Bahn) and light rail station (S-Bahn) in Munich and Hamburg . Otherwise, the penalty is 60 euros. The ticket needs to be punched and an hours is valid.
14.German railways station categories 1.
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