Strong increase in rail travel: As reported by the Federal Statistical Office, Germans traveled 44 percent more trains on longer journeys between June and August than in the same period of the pre-crisis year 2019, as the “timereported. An increase of even 57 percent falls on routes between 100 and 300 kilometers.
Bahn hype ends when the 9-euro ticket expires: Traffic benefiting from the 9-euro ticket has doubled compared to 2019. Anonymized mobile phone connection data served as the basis for the evaluation. When the subsidy ticket expired at the end of August, the value of rail travel fell back to the pre-corona level.