Public Transporation : Transportation in Vienna

The ULF tram stock, designed by Porsche and built by Siemens boasts an entry height of 180 mm (7 inches), the lowest in the world. About 150 of these vehicles are currently in use on Vienna’s tram network, along with around 400 older high-floor models

Vienna has a large public transportation network.
Vienna S-Bahn
Vienna U-Bahn
Local Railways (Lokalbahn Wien-Baden)
Wiener Linien (Company operating U-Bahn, trams, and most bus routes)

Vienna has an extensive tram network, which is one of the largest in the world, and also large number of bus routes. As all routes in densely populated areas operated at dense intervals, even during off-peak hours, it is usually not necessary to remember the time when the train or bus goes. Public transportation is thus used quite a lot.

The Viennese public transport is connected to services of train and bus lines operating 50 kilometres into the surrounding countryside, which can be used under the same system of tickets.

Public transportation mostly closes during night hours, but there is a special bus service, the Nightline, operating on the most important routes. However, most of these buses run only every thirty minutes. Vienna uses an “honor system.” There are no gates or ticket checks when boarding transit lines, but ticket checks will occur, oftentimes by undercover employees. If you are caught “Schwarzfahren” or riding without a ticket, you could incur a hefty citation or at the very least, be forced to leave at the next stop. At any rate, it is undesirable to get “kontrolliert.”

In Vienna there are also two park railways: the Liliputbahn Prater in the Wiener Prater and the Donauparkbahn in Danube Park