Since the introduction of the 49-euro ticket, people actually seem to be taking the train more. At least that suggests an evaluation of the mobility data from the mobile phone provider 02 Telefónica, which is available to the German Press Agency. This shows a significant increase in train journeys of more than 30 kilometers since the beginning of May, when the Germany ticket was introduced. In June, the number of these trips was more than a quarter higher than in April.
The mobile phone provider also measures a “perceptible shift from road to rail” by around 2.5 percentage points. However, its 40-euro more expensive successor cannot keep up with the effects of the 9-euro ticket. After this was introduced in June 2022, the jump in train travel was much larger than it is now. For the analysis, the data specialist Teralytics evaluated the anonymized movement profiles of around 40 million mobile phones for O2 Telefónica and extrapolated them to the entire population.
The Deutschlandticket entitles you to travel on all local and regional transport throughout Germany for EUR 49 per month. According to the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV), it was used by a good 9.6 million passengers in June (as of June 20). The VDV assumes that 17 million people will get a Germany ticket in the future. Above all, the association is hoping for new customers with the job ticket variant – many companies had not yet switched the previous job tickets to Germany tickets in time for the start in May.