How successful is Portugal’s Green Railway Pass?

How successful is Portugal’s Green Railway Pass? - Portugal Business News

Green Mobility News Europe – Portugal’s Green Railway Pass, that is available on the CP app since September 2024, allows for 100% digital and immediate requests and already accounts for over 25% of new pass requests. This victory capitalizes on the Portuguese adoption of the digital mobile key.

1 - What is Portugal’s vision for Green Mobility?

Portugal’s vision for green mobility is clear: to offer railway customers the mobility solution they are looking for, complementing daily mobility with long-haul solutions. It is also a commitment to digital because the future of mobility will depend on digital.

2 - What is Portugal’s Green Railway Pass?

Portugal’s Green Railway Pass is a flexible product because it includes the entire regional train network without the need for pre-booking - this requirement is only necessary for Intercity travel, as well as urban sections that were not included in intermodal tickets.

3 - How much does Portugal’s Green Railway Pass cost?

Portugal’s Green Railway Pass is an affordable product because it has set a price of €20 for this extended offer, allowing it to complement other monthly passes and accelerate modal shift. The issuing organization, CP (Comboios de Portugal) is focused on reducing barriers for Green Mobility and reduced the cost of the CP Railway card to €0.50 for online orders.

4 - How successful is Portugal’s Green Railway Pass?

 

Within just a year, a flexible, accessible, and, above all, digital product was created, and the numbers prove that Portugal’s Green Railway Pass is a recipe for success. 

The Green Rail Pass was used last year by more than 120,000 new pass customers, with a total of more than 650,000 passes sold, which already represents more than 13 million euros in revenue for the issuer CP.

"The Green Rail Pass is a successful product. We are successfully achieving the goal of bringing more people onto public transport in order to also achieve our decarbonization goals," stated the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Miguel Pinto Luz, adding: "The Portuguese are now increasingly choosing the train as a safe, sustainable, and affordable means of transportation, a path we want to continue building, improving the experience for each user, now with a digital approach to the services provided."  

 

5 - What are Portugal’s future green mobility projects?

Portugal’s focus now is on continuing to digitize customer relationships, with more real-time information, improving the quality of the offering with greater reliability, and encouraging the efficient use of the Green Railway Pass and its interoperability with other mobility solutions.

Portugal’s 25th Government thus pursues the objective set out in the Government Program of implementing a mobility policy that promotes improvements in citizens' quality of life, combats mobility poverty and decarbonization. 

Contributing to these objectives is the recent confirmation of the acquisition of 153 new electric railcars, with 117 already contracted and the advance purchase option for a further 36 approved by Portugal’s Council of Ministers, which results in the largest purchase of trains ever and allows for the acceleration of the modernization of CP's fleet, with a view to fulfilling public service obligations.