Transportation Ticket

Transportation Ticket is a document approving that a certain person or persons have purchased entrance or seat to journey on a form of transport. Tickets are used in a wide range of transport types, from busses to cruise ships. They can also be used for more stationary purposes such as ticket to a parking lot or tickets charging a toll for passage in a certain location. The tickets also made from various materials, some are also electronic and employ different systems of identification or payment. There are paper, cardboard, plastic tickets and also magnetic, bar code, chip and even scratch tickets.

Please note that Transportation Tokens (coin-like disks, usually made of metal) are not included in the Transportation Ticket category but in the Tokens category, which is better suited for them. To find (almost) all Transportation Tokens, please check the following usages (in alphabetic order): Transport: Bus, Transport: Ferry, Transport: Others, Transport: Parking Meter, Transport: Passage, Transport: Subway, Transport: Train, and Transport: Tram. There are some other tokens that include transportation fare, for example the Kraków Night of Museums series from Poland. Some Admission Tickets also include transportation fare, but these are currently not filterable for this additional functionality.

Browsing the Catalog

The catalog is sortable and filterable by several properties of the tickets:

Countries: The country the ticket was issued in.
Companies: Companies issuing the tickets.
Transportation Types: The following types of transportation are available:

Bus: Bus, Omnibus, Autobus, a large automobile. Electrical buses with overhead contact lines belong to transportation type Trolleybus.
Combined: Combined or integrated tickets allow the usage of multiple types of transportation, often operated by different companies, in a specific area. Issuers can be (local) governmental agencies or transport associations, though in some associations the member companies issue their tickets themelves, then creating a lot of slightly different tickets valid for the same area of transport.
Cruise Ship: Large ships custom-built or outfitted for vacation trips. Not to be confused with passenger ships (currently this transportation type doesn't exist in the catalog) that have been the only cross-continental transportation until the airplanes mostly took over this segment.
Ferry: Short-distance ship. Ferries exist on rivers, seas, and the ocean. Usually ferries do not provide beds for their passengers, though exceptions exist, as the term is not clearly defined.
Funicular / Cable Car: Ground-bound vehicle that is pulled by a cable or rope. These are often used on very steep slopes where other means of transportation are impractical. Cable vehicles operating above the ground belong to the transportation type Gondola / Aerial Tram.
Gondola / Aerial Tram: Vehicles whose propulsion system (cable/rope or other) is located significantly above the ground. All types of ski lifts belong to this transportation type.
Light Rail
Marshrutka / Minibus
Mini Rail
Monorail: A train running on just one rail (as opposed to the usual two).
Parking: Not exactly transportation tickets, but closely related to transportation are tickets to park your car, motorbike or bike.
Subway / Underground: Metro, subway or underground are used to name rail-bound transportation that has no crossings with other means of transportation. These rails are not necessarily below ground, the important distinction from both trams and trains is that they have no crossings with other means of transportation.
Toll: These tickets are for paying not for the actual transportation (which is done by your own vehicle) but for the permission to use the way (e.g. street, tunnel, or bridge).
Trackless Rail: A vehicle designed to look like a train or tram, but runing on regular wheels on streets, not on railway tracks. Most of these trackless trains are used for touristic routes, e.g. sightseeing tours or between touristic places. Note: If the trackless train gets its electricity from an overhead contact line, the correct Transportation Type is Trolleybus.
Train: Rail-bound vehicle. Trains are managed by signals, while in most countries trams, metro, subway, and underground, while possibly aided by signals, mainly drive on sight.
Tram: Rail-bound vehicle, usually on street level, often on the street together with cars and other traffic, though underground portions of the course often exist, especially below the city centers. The difference to trains is that they are operated on sight, even if they may be aided with signals, and the difference to metro/subway/ underground is that trams to have crossings with other types of transport.
Trolleybus: A bus (driving on wheels, not rails) getting the electricity for propulsion from an overhead contact line, like many rail-bound vehicles.

Systems: The system or type of the ticket. The transportation system is a combination of a material-based (e.g. cardboaard, plastic) and a fare-validation-based (e.g. barcode,chip, magnetic) property.
Years: The year of issue, if known.
Face Values: The numeric face value of the ticket, if it is imprinted. Note that 10 cents and 0.10 dollars, while currency-wise the same amount, are listed separately, while 10 cents and 10 dollars, the latter being 100 times the amount of the former, are listed together.
Currencies: The currency of the ticket face value. Note that for example US cent and US dollar are different currencies in the catalog, while the cent is a subdivision of the dollar and therefore considered the same currency financially.
Recently Updated: Tickets where any information was updated within the last 30 days (excluding newly added tickets unless they were changed after adding). This can be further filtered by the last 1, 3, 7, 14, and 30 days.
Newly Added: Tickets added to the Colnect Transportation Ticket Catalog within the last 30 days. This can be further filtered by the last 1, 3, 7, 14, and 30 days.
Import Log: A list of all New Item Forms (NIFs) that have been imported since 2013. It shows date, the person who created the NIF, the coordinator who imported it, the number of transportation tickets imported, the company, which issued the transportation tickets and the country of the transportation tickets. Please note that it is not possible to find the transportation tickets that were in the NIF, this information is not stored in the database.

The catalog also contains other properties to further describe the transportation tickets:

Unique name: The name of the transportation ticket.
Catalog name: Name of the catalog the code belongs to. Only available catalog is Colnect Codes.
Catalog code: A catalog code for the transportation ticket, it is contained in the Catalog (see above). Each item must have a unique catalog code. Please see the section Transportation Ticket Colnect Codes system on how to generate a new Colnect code.
Series: The series, the transportation ticket belongs to.
Variant: If a transportation ticket is marked as a variant, you can get a list of all variants of this transportation ticket by clicking on Click to see variants. To add another item as variant of the one you are looking at in a comment or in a NIF, please provide the full URL (link) to the item.
Date issued: The date the transportation ticket was issued, in the format YYYY-MM-DD. Day or day and month may be omitted if the date of issue is not fully known.
Expiry date: The date of last validity of the transportation ticket, in the format YYYY-MM-DD. Day or day and month may be omitted if the expiry date is not fully known.
Face value: The face value as printed in the transportation ticket. Please do not convert the face value into a standard currency, but please use English notation (a dot . for decimal places, a comma , in case there are thousand separators), even if the ticket is using a different notation. Examples: 145 Euro Cent should stay 145, not converted to 1.45 Euro. A German face value of 1.214,99 Euro (one thousand two hundred and fourteen Euro and ninety nine cents) needs to be entered as 1,214.99 Euro.
Currency: The currency of the face value as printed on the ticket. Please do not convert the face value into a standard currency, so use Euro cent instead of Euro if the value is printed as cents.
Print run: The number of transportation tickets of this type that were printed (if known).
Description: A detailed description of the transportation ticket. This should include information on how to distinguish variants if there are any.
Front Picture and Back picture: Both front and back of the transportation ticket should be pictured, as the back often contains important information about the issuer, motif, variant and hints to determine the age. Please follow the Picture Guidelines.

Please note that empty properties will not be displayed in the catalog.

Transportation Ticket Colnect Codes system

The Colnect Tranortation Tickets Catalog Code consists of 3 or 4 parts connected with hyphens: XX-YYY-Z-0000-00-000-0000 Country, company abbreviation, series abbreviation (with date added where appropriate), a consecutive number, and only if several tickets with the same design exist the face value or another distinction. All characters are used in upper case only.

ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 Country Code

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) created ISO 3166-1 to define codes for countries, dependent territories and special geographic areas. The standard offers several codes, the transportation Ticket Colnect Code uses the alpha-2 code, which provides a 2-character code for every current country. The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code can be found on the following websites:

Note that the country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLD) on the internet uses ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes as well, but with a few exceptions. The most important difference is that ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and therefore Colnect uses GB for Great Britain, while the ccTLD is UK (for United Kingdom). The full official name of the country is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Company abbreviation

The Colnect Transportation Ticket Catalog uses an abbreviation of the issuing company's name as second part of the Colnect Code catalog code. If the company already exists, please use the same abbreviation as the other transportation tickets. For a new company please choose an abbreviation unique to the country (it may be used in other countries again) and, if possible, of no more than 3 characters.

Series abbreviation

The Colnect Transportation Ticket Catalog uses an abbreviation of the validity period as second part of the Colnect Code catalog code.

Y: yearly ticket, followed by the year in the format YYYY (e.g. Y-2018).
M: Monthly ticket, followed by year and month in the format YYYY-MM (e.g. M-2018-03 for March 2018).
W: Weekly ticket, followed by date of first validity in the format YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. W-2018-03-05 for a ticket starting on 05-Mar-2018).
D: Daily ticket.
S: Single ticket.
R: Return ticket.
SP: Special ticket.
MA: Machine tickets.

Where needed, companies may use also other series and series abbreviation. Please check the catalog codes of the company, and ask the appropriate editor or the coordinator if you are unsure.

Consecutive number

The last part of the Colnect Transportation Ticket Catalog code is a three-digit consecutive number. It starts with 001 and is increased by 1 for every ticket with the same code prior to this consecutive number. In addition to the same consecutive number, the cost and /or year can be added.

Distinction for similar design tickets

If several tickets with the same motif or design exist, all get the same consecutive number and an additional distinction. It depends on the tickets what is used as distinction, for instance if they differ in face value, this is used. Example: HR-ZET-F-001-2000: Croatia, ZET (Zagreb tram), Funicular, first design, 20.00 Kuna face value.

Country-specific information

Transport Tickets of Germany, Federal Republic