‘We drive five times around the world everyday’: What to know about Vienna’s public transport

The Austrian capital was voted “most liveable city in the world” by The Economist in part because of its public transport.

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00:00We offer seamless mobility chains for everybody, young people, workers, students, elderlies.

00:23And every day, every night, throughout the week, throughout the year, a lot of people

00:28choose the mode of walking or biking there.

00:32But to connect the outskirts and the suburbs to the inner city, it needs to have metros

00:39and trams.

00:40We also have the Federal Railway, which is in the system because you can use it with

00:47the annual pass of Minalinian.

00:49So it's a composition of different transport operators.

00:56In Vienna, we have two million inhabitants and one million annual pass holders.

01:05It is one euro per day, 365 euros.

01:11And this is since 2012.

01:15And we didn't ever rise it.

01:18Twelve years ago.

01:20And it is a massive impact for the climate protection because our target is to become

01:29climate neutral since 2040.