Travel costs this year
From November 2021 until end of November 2022 I had a BahnCard25 with a big discount (30€ less). At the beginning of 2022 I wrote about calculating if the card is worth it. In the summer (from June till end of August) Germany had the 9€ ticket, so I had no use for the BahnCard in that time. But the result is that I still saved 12.10€ by having the BahnCard25.
For 2023 I decided to not renew the BahnCard25. I would not have saved enough to justify the full price and Germany will probably get the successor of the 9€-Ticket: the 49€-Ticket (starting in April 2023). But I still want to know if it would have been worth it to have a BahnCard25. So I will track using virtual postings the same way as in 2022: add how much money I would have saved in the months before April 2023 and when using faster travel (IC, ICE).
As preparation for the 49€-Ticket I wanted to know: How much money did I spend per month on public transport and regional trains.
For this the hledger command for my data looks like this:
hledger balance ^Expenses:Train ^Expenses:ÖPNV --monthly -b 2022-01-01
|| Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov ==============================++================================================================================ Expenses:Train:Deutsche Bahn || €42.60 0 0 0 €55.30 €7.55 0 0 €21.35 0 €7.85 Expenses:ÖPNV:VVS || €10.89 0 €9.74 €33.49 €20.17 €19.60 0 €9.00 €22.38 €18.09 €29.99 ------------------------------++-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- || €53.49 0 €9.74 €33.49 €75.47 €27.15 0 €9.00 €43.73 €18.09 €37.84
In June I paid the 9€ for June and July; and in August the 9€ for August.
But in all three months I used public transport and regional trains a lot more than in previous years.
I didn't track how much money I saved in that time because it was very obvious that the 9€/month is worth it.
From looking at the table it seems like I would only have paid more than 49€ in two months.
But like last summer, I'll probably use public transport and especially regional trains a lot more than without the flat-rate ticket.
This time I plan to track the money I would have saved.