News Digest Item
19 Jul 2018

Deutsche Bahn unveils new mobility offer in Hamburg

Spiegel / Deutsche Bahn

German rail company Deutsche Bahn has launched a pilot project in Hamburg in which public transit users can call a shuttle to pick them up in front of their house, Spiegel Online reports. Users can order the electric vehicles through an application on their smartphones. Ticket-holding customers will be able to use the service at no additional cost. “Such offers will soon follow in other cities,” Berthold Huber, Deutsche Bahn passenger transport director, said.

Read the article in German here and find the press release in German here.

For background, read the dossier The energy transition and Germany’s transport sector.

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