FahrPlaner

Verkehrsverbund Bremen/Niedersachsen

About this app

FahrPlaner app for limitless individual mobility: public transport, bike-sharing, car-sharing, taxi or on foot. Regional and countrywide, accurate to the meter and to the minute.

Mobile tickets are available for all public transport services within the Bremen/Northern Saxony transport association (VBN) and regional trains within the Niedersachsentarif (Lower Saxony).

RoutePLANING: places, destinations, addresses or stops within Bremen, Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg and Rostock with train information for all of Germany

RouteCHOICE: train, bus, tram, footpath, bike, bike-sharing (nextbike), car-sharing (cambio), Taxi Deutschland (Taxi-Ruf Bremen).

RouteWAY: Wunschverbindung inklusive Ausflugszielen (POI’s), Vorverkaufsstellen und Stationssteckbriefen.

RouteTIME: connections and departures with real-time projections

RouteALARM: push-service with latest news for your subscribed connections - also available as commuter alarm!

RouteCOST: price information for public transport tickets of Niedersachsentarif (Lower Saxony), VBN (Bremen/Lower Saxony) and other transport associations.

Further information on FahrPlaner is available at www.fahrplaner.info.


Information about access rights:

The app can access your contacts so that you will be able to select an address as starting point or destination for the connection search function. You can change this access right at any time via the settings.

The access to the camera is needed to personalise icons with own photos used for “My addresses” as well as to be able to add own photos to send via feedback form in the app.

Based on your location the app can show you possible stations and connections in your vicinity.

Should you decide to subscribe to the push service an anonymous device ID will be stored on our server in order to allow us to send you the requested information.

These access rights will not be used for any other purpose. You can change your consent anytime via app or system settings. More information about our privacy policy is available within the app and at our website https://en.vbn.de/privacypolicy-fahrplaner-app.

Please note, the newest features and updates as well as intermodal information are only offered for devices running Android 6.0 and above. Users with older devices can still use the older versions of our app, although we cannot offer support for these devices.

The app was funded by Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft Niedersachsen GmbH (LNVG), Die Senatorin für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Mobilität, Stadtentwicklung und Wohnungsbau (SKUMSW), Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund Bremen/Niedersachsen (ZVBN) and the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) through the funding program "Digitalisation of local transport systems".

The integration of the flight data was realized in the project Green Sustainable Airports (GSA) in the context of the Interreg IV B North Sea Region Programme, supported by the European Union – The European Regional Development Fund.

The data for the Points of Interest is derived from Openstreetmap (https://www.openstreetmap.org/) "© OpenStreetMap contributors". The data is licensed under the Open Database Licence (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/).

© 2021 Verkehrsverbund Bremen Niedersachsen,
Niedersachsentarif GmbH, HaCon Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, eos.uptrade GmbH

Ratings and reviews

This app is absolute rubbish. A) before buying a simple ticket, it forced me to register with a dozen unnecessary details B) it doesn't let you buy tickets for later. It asked to save the trip in a useless place. C) it asked me to save a card in 'my payment methods' for which it charged me a euro. D) when i actually needed to buy a ticket, it dismissed my account and payment method as nonexistent. I had to buy a ticket on the tram. What a waste of everyone's time.

Buying a ticket that matches the planned route and expected cost was impossible in the app - I could only buy a ticket for over twice the cost (a day ticket) in the app. In person on one of the ticket machines it matched the apps plan, so I guess at least it's good for pre-planning purposes???

Only issues are that sometimes the connection delays appear late on the app (sometimes) and in case of transportation employees strike or connection canceled, it shows it late.

What's new

- small bugfixes