The flat tariff for public transport of the metropolitan area is approved
Encourage journeys by collective public transportation desplazamientos en transporte público colectivo - LEE2 PMUAB 2018-24
30/11/2018
From January 1, 2019 the UAB will be more accessible by public transport thanks to the approval, by the Board of Directors of the ATM, of the flat rate for all journeys by integrated public transport among the 36 municipalities of the metropolis of Barcelona.
In August 2010 the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) was created as supra-municipal entity for planning and management of services (including transport). The territorial supply of this entity includes 36 municipalities that are located in different zones in the Integrated Tariff System of the ATM. The 18 closest to Barcelona are located in the first crown or tariff zone, while the 18 most distant (Cerdanyola among them) are located in the second crown. According to this, the trips between the UAB and Barcelona implied transport titles of two zones while the Sabadell trips (in the same crown) implied titles of an area and from Terrassa titles of two zones.
From January, the approval of the flat rate for the municipalities of the AMB implies that those 18 AMB municipalities that are part of the second tariff crown will be considered as the first tariff crown at the level of transport ticket prices. That is, the flat rate will be applied to travel to and from any of these 36 municipalities.
It should be borne in mind that this flat rate application does not mean that there is a change in rate zones. Cerdanyola, and therefore the reference stations of the UAB, will continue to be located within zone 2. In this way, the relationship of the UAB with the municipalities of the rest of the crowns will continue as before. Following the same examples, the journeys between the UAB and Barcelona will be considered as one zone, while the displacements from Sabadell or from Terrassa, which continue in the same areas, will imply titles of one and two zones respectively, as now. Below you can see the beneficiary municipalities and some examples of the new tariff relationships that will be established.
Source: ATM
Source: ATM
The application of this flat rate, therefore, is great news for the UAB. As part of its planning and mobility management tasks, for several years the UAB, together with other territorial agents has been adding demands in pro of a more accessible collective transport from an economic point of view. Not in vain, this is one of the measures that have been included in the Mobility Plan of the UAB 2018-2024 as fundamental to achieve a more sustainable mobility model.
The application of this flat rate affects most of the integrated titles of the ATM. In the following table you can see which are the 18 beneficiary municipalities and the savings that this flat rate implies for journeys between the UAB and these municipalities in the first metropolitan area, such as Barcelona.
The application of this flat rate affects most of the integrated titles of the ATM. In the following table you can see which are the 18 beneficiary municipalities and the savings that this flat rate implies for journeys between the UAB and these municipalities in the first metropolitan area, such as Barcelona.
Source: Own elaboration from ATM information.
Source: ATM
In the case of the UAB, this measure will benefit all those people who travel to the Campus from those municipalities of the first crown, a total of 12,300 people, according to the 2017 UAB Mobility Habits Survey.
The creation of the AMB flat rate is considered by the planners as the first step in the change of the T-mobility tariff model, a kilometric rate model that will be applied from the year 2021 in the ATM of Barcelona, to later extend to all of Catalonia. According to the ATM, "the new model provides a tariff based on the kilometers of travel within the integrated fare system, with 5 km jumps from the first 10 km of travel, in coexistence with the new flat rate zone (36 municipalities), which will be maintained ". It will also allow pricing based on the use of transportation with discounts linked to the frequency of use. It is expected that this first phase, with a cost of € 23M, will increase the use of public transport by 10% to 4.6M of annual trips, throughout the metropolitan area.
On the other hand, planners, also aware of the need to improve services, propose for the second phase the improvement in infrastructure and public transport services in these 18 second crown municipalities that will increase their mobility in these media as a result of the application of the flat rate. Many of these improvements have also been included in the UAB Mobility Plan.
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The creation of the AMB flat rate is considered by the planners as the first step in the change of the T-mobility tariff model, a kilometric rate model that will be applied from the year 2021 in the ATM of Barcelona, to later extend to all of Catalonia. According to the ATM, "the new model provides a tariff based on the kilometers of travel within the integrated fare system, with 5 km jumps from the first 10 km of travel, in coexistence with the new flat rate zone (36 municipalities), which will be maintained ". It will also allow pricing based on the use of transportation with discounts linked to the frequency of use. It is expected that this first phase, with a cost of € 23M, will increase the use of public transport by 10% to 4.6M of annual trips, throughout the metropolitan area.
On the other hand, planners, also aware of the need to improve services, propose for the second phase the improvement in infrastructure and public transport services in these 18 second crown municipalities that will increase their mobility in these media as a result of the application of the flat rate. Many of these improvements have also been included in the UAB Mobility Plan.
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