Stockholm Public Transport offer one unitary multimodal ticket across large areas.

Stockholm is a big urban area, with no other big cities nearby. The central Stockholm area is home to a quarter of all the workplaces in the whole of Sweden. The workers for these workplaces are drawn from the whole of the greater Stockholm area. Also; Stockholm is built on a number of islands in the Baltic Sea and the great lake Mälaren, with bridges in between. It is not possible for all the workers commuting from homes in the suburban and rural areas to workplaces in the center of Stockholm to travel by car across bridges between islands. Hence the Stockholm public transport system transports in total one million people on three million journeys per day over an area ca 150 kilometres times 150 kilometres that is both urban, suburban and fully rural. Having a public transport system that is attractive enough to compete with commuting by car, is seen a necessity for the economic viability of the geographically fractured greater Stockholm area. Public transports runs with a single-ticket intermodular system over trains, boats, subways and buses. One single ticket costs 37 SEK, ca 3,5 Euros, that is “blipped” on a Master or VISA card one time at the start of the journey. This ticket is valid for 75 minutes. Hence there is no need to find a kiosk or similar as a point-of-sales for tickets.