I am contemplating the possibility to use public transportation for my daily commute between Duesseldorf and Wuppertal. I need to take a combination of U-Bahn and S-Bahn or RE trains. My German is non existent, so I have a really hard time figuring out the options I have for cheaper fares. So far the best I have found is a 4X ticket that allows me to ride different train combinations for 4 trips, but it costs more than what it would cost me to drive the same route everyday.

Does anyone know if there are monthly tickets or other sort of fares that are sensibly cheaper than day tickets or 4X tickets?

Many thanks!

Daniel

Daniel,
Check out http://www.vrr.de/en/english_brochures/index.html. It's pretty much all in there.

Unfortunately it does usually work out cheaper to take the car. It won't help to tell you the Köln/Bonn system is equally complicated and even locals who claim to understand it can't explain it to anyone else.

Welcome to Germany

Heh?

You can run a car for that work journey and all your local journeys into town for shopping and leisure stuff etc for €68.28 a month?

http://tarifberater.vrr.de/regelticketerge...userattribute=0

No but I understood the original post as being from someone who has a car already so the cost comparison would be different.

I can make some of my work journeys by tram and avoid parking hassles but the cost of the ticket is far more than the cost of the petrol.

If you already NEED to run a car then the marginal cost of the odd journex might be lower though given the trend to makig parking more expensive this is less so.
However for DUS-WUP commute I doub the car comes as a cheaper option.

Thank you all for your responses, the links were just what I needed. Rebecca was right assuming I already own a car... but it seems it is going to be parked at home many days...

To the OP, I'd recommend paying the extra €3.72/month (€72 in subscription; €84.70 monthly) to get the Ticket2000 instead of the Ticket1000.
The Ticket2000 gives you a couple of advantages:
1) you can choose to have it issued as a transferable ticket
2) your ticket is valid in the entire VRR tarif area weekdays after 7pm, and all day on weekends and holidays (for you as well as an additional passenger and up to three children under 15)
3) you don't need to pay extra if you travel with your bicycle
4) the maximum amount of the mobility guarantee, which will pay for IC/ICE trains, taxis, etc. in the event of delays greater than 20 minutes, is doubled to 30€ per incident

On a few occasions I have had to go to Düsseldorf and change for Wuppertal. You're definately better off with a regional VRR ticket 2000. Hardly any IC/ICE trains (the really fast ones) pass through Wuppertal, but that shouldn't really be a problem, since there seems to be so many RE and S trains running DUS-WUP every 25 mins or so. I had to travel there on a Sunday, and even then there was quite a few train options per hour. It takes about a 15-20 min train journey, and at least you'll beat the traffic jams...