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By introducing the zone tariff, passengers are provided with the option of purchasing a single transfer ticket. This ticket type is valid for two connections (one transfer), while its price is more advantageous in comparison with a situation of purchasing tickets for each connection separately.
Let us consider, for example, the journey from Bardejov to Košice with transfer in Prešov. The passenger will buy the ticket for entire journey to Košice already in Bardejov (on the bus connection Bardejov – Prešov) and while transferring in Prešov he/she will prove the valid ticket at the time of boarding the vehicle (without need to purchase another ticket). This option represent lower fare compared to purchasing the tickets separately, i.e. first for connection Bardejov – Prešov and subsequently connection Prešov – Košice.
When boarding the bus, it is important for the passenger to report a driver his/her destination stop for his/her first transport connection (e.g. „Prešov, station“) as well as the municipality for the second transport connection (e.g. „Košice“). The example of such report is „to Prešov, station with a continuation to Košice“.
The use of single transfer tickets is conditional on payment with a transport card (physical or virtual). After introducing the Mobile application IDS Východ in the future, the purchase of single transfer tickets will be possible also through this mobile application.
The time and zone validity is important in the case of single transfer tickets. Zone validity of the ticket is given by the list of zones that are purchased and recorded on the ticket. The time validity of the ticket is be determined by a multiple of the number of purchased zones and 30 minutes with added 30 minutes more for a connection time (e.g. a 5-zone ticket for transport connection Košice – Prešov has the time validity of 6 x 30 minutes = 180 minutes, i.e. exactly 3 hours from the moment of issuing the ticket). It is necessary to monitor the time validity of tickets only in the case of abnormally long transfers.
The fare is applied in suburban regular bus transport operated by the following carriers: ARRIVA Michalovce, eurobus, SAD Humenné, SAD Poprad, and SAD Prešov SK. Detailed information is available in the Tariff of IDS Východ published in the Documents section.
