Austria's new Klimaticket, or climate ticket -- offering seamless travel across all modes of public transport for just $3.50 a day -- is intended to galvanize the Alpine nation's fight against climate change.
aims to reduce private car use from 70% of total annual kilometers traveled to 54% by 2040, at the same time increasing public transport's share from 27% to 40% and doubling active travel from 3% to 6% of the total.
Even the €3 per day cost is a compromise -- the Green Party's manifesto pledge at the last federal elections was to slash travel costs to just €1 a day within any region and €2 across any two regions.Andrew Michael/Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Johannes Margreiter, transport spokesman for the liberal Neos party, said:"Price isn't the reason why people do not switch to public transport. In many places, the problem is the lack of availability because of poor or absent connections."
Austria has perhaps succeeded because it's a relatively small country with a well-funded, cohesive and popular public transport system already in place. Others without this could struggle to emulate its achievement. "It has the infrastructure it needs to accommodate more passengers, or it is in the process of constructing it."CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP via Getty ImagesBarrow says the Netherlands could be a contender, benefiting from an already interlinked public transport network that operates with high frequency. The densely populated country faces a pressing need to find solutions to transport challenges."I think there is an appetite for something like Klimaticket in Germany.
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