The start of 2025 marks the overhaul of Ile-de-France transport ticket prices. There “ticketing revolution” desired by the president of Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), Valérie Pécresse, came into force on Thursday January 2.
Single price of 2.50 euros, end of ticket books, generalization of the Liberté + pass, card intended for tourists… Franceinfo summarizes everything that changes for Ile-de-France transport users in 2025.
The ticket is more expensive in Paris, but becomes advantageous for other journeys
“Where 50,000 different pricing options were possible, as of January 1, 2025, there were none [existe] only two left.” This is how the IDFM website summarizes the main upheaval in its policy: the introduction of a single ticket price for all transport in the Ile-de-France region. Two tickets are sold for traveling in Ile-de-France: one is for train, metro, RER journeys and costs 2.50 euros, the other is for bus and tram journeys and costs 2 euros.
These two titles also exist at a reduced rate for travelers entitled to reductions, the list of which is available online. If the user wishes to make a connection between the metro and the tram, they must have two tickets, details the site. Old T+ tickets, the Navigo Easy pass and tickets bearing the departure point and destination remain valid until December 31, 2025.
According to IDFM estimates, three million RER, train and bus users will see their fares decrease. “Only those who only take the metro will pay a little more. Today they are estimated at around a million”detailed Valérie Pécresse last September, when revealing her plan on the “ticketing revolution”September 18. “The objective is to give the same freedom of movement and the same dignity to all inhabitants of the region, wherever they live, wherever they work”she argued to AFP on December 23.
The end of differentiated prices has so far been rather well received by those mainly concerned. The association of users of the RER and Transilien lines “Plus de trains” was particularly delighted to “the end of the many price traps”. The head of the National Federation of Transport User Associations for Ile-de-France, Marc Pélissier, for his part recognized a measure “beneficial for the greater crown” but castigated a “metro ticket increase too high”. The regional left is more skeptical: according to it, the increases in the Navigo pass or the Imagine R pass (intended for schools and students) will finance this reform.
The book of ten tickets disappears
The other main novelty lies in the disappearance of the book of ten tickets sold at a reduced rate. By removing it, IDFM intends to develop the Liberté + pass, the objective of which is to allow payment for transport on a per-use basis, via post-payment which summarizes all journeys made during the month. Until now, this solution was only available in the metro and buses in Paris and the inner suburbs.
It now applies everywhere in Ile-de-France, in order to facilitate connections. It allows you to benefit from a “advantageous rate”according to the IDFM website. Liberté + users can buy their ticket 20% cheaper, i.e. 1.99 euros for the metro, train and RER, and 1.60 euros for the bus and tram. In the case of a connection between a metro and the tram, for example, the customer will only pay for the most expensive ticket.
The price of certain journeys will therefore be “divided by two, or even by four”, especially for “all those who make complicated, long journeys, with many connections”according to Valérie Pécresse. “We really want Liberté + to become the reference for all Ile-de-France residents”underlined last September the one who intends to change “completely organizing transport”. The monthly Navigo pass, which increases by 2.8% to reach 88.80 euros in 2025, is, however, not intended to disappear, said the president of the regional council.
Cardboard tickets will definitely disappear
The transition to the dematerialization of transport tickets began more than three years ago: cardboard ticket books began to disappear in October 2021 and disappeared definitively in September 2023. Since then, only single magnetic tickets are on sale at the counters. They too are doomed to gradually disappear in 2025, because IDFM wants to focus on “ticket on smartphone” et “rechargeable passes”.
However, cardboard tickets “will remain available on certain distributors which do not allow you to obtain rechargeable Navigo Easy passes”until more modern machines are installed everywhere, specifies the IDFM site. The generalization will therefore be gradual and cardboard tickets will remain usable until the end of 2025. In the meantime, all Ile-de-France transport tickets are already available on mobile phones.
A unique “Paris Visite” pass intended for tourists
A unique “Paris Visite” pass at 29.90 euros per day has also been created: it is aimed at tourists and includes unlimited travel, including to and from airports. Other prices have been clarified, such as that of the Navigo Jour, which goes from 20.60 euros to 12 euros and allows travel to all zones, from 1 to 5. A downside, however, since this transport ticket does not does not include airport services. Here too, a change should be noted: until now there were five prices for getting to the airports, ranging from 10.30 euros to 16.60 euros. All are replaced by a single “airport” rate: a user will have to pay 13 euros to obtain it, regardless of whether they travel by bus (Roissybus, Orlybus), with the RER B or line 14.
These new measures involve “a small transfer of burden on visitors” to finance transport, admitted Valérie Pécresse in September. She clarified her remarks in December to AFP, arguing that she wanted “rebalance prices between Ile-de-France residents who finance transport through their taxes and visitors who do not finance it”. The increase in the price intended for “visitors and tourists” will help finance “a good part of the drop for residents of the Paris region in the middle and outer suburbs”she explained.
The cost of all the new measures is estimated at 30 million euros by IDFM, for 4 billion euros in tariff revenue. “if behavior does not change”. Valérie Pécresse, however, thinks that this sum should be compensated “by the modal shift from the car to public transport” and by intensifying the fight against fraud that it intends to put in place. In addition, the president of the regional council is counting on the fact that the deployment of these new measures will result “by an increase in transport use of around 1 to 2%”to the detriment of motorists.
