fips

Electric vehicles can be booked spontaneously and flexibly via the myVRN app or the VRNflexline/fips app. You decide the start point, destination and departure time, as fips takes you to your destination within the service areas. The app intelligently combines the journey requests of several passengers with similar routes or destinations.

Journeys to and from the bus stop right up to your doorstep for the first and last mile, trips to the shops, doctor’s appointments or leisure outings: fips makes it all easier and more convenient. Because wherever buses and trains no longer go, fips takes you the rest of the way! Enter your starting point and destination, choose your departure time and enjoy flexible travel with fips!

If you’re using fips as part of your journey alongside other train or bus services, the myVRN app is ideal for booking fips. As well as standard journey information, it also provides all the details you need about timetables and tickets. 

If you’re travelling exclusively with fips within a service area – for example, to visit the doctor or for a similar reason – the VRNflexline/fips on-demand app is ideal. It’s available from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. 

• Flexible: Passengers can use fips exactly when they need it. fips is not only flexible, but also more efficient thanks to the smart grouping of passengers travelling on similar routes.
• Personalised: fips takes passengers from A to B within its service areas and operating hours, on demand and without a fixed timetable.
• Accessibility: Step boards and electric sliding doors make boarding easier for people with reduced mobility. Assistance with boarding is also available. For passengers who rely on a wheelchair, vehicles have been adapted to be wheelchair-accessible. For families with children, child seats can be booked as an extra. There is space in the boot for a pushchair or a walking frame. Please specify any such requirements when booking.
• Shuttle: Our electric vehicles are powered by electricity sourced from renewable energy and have five passenger seats.

In Heidelberg, fips operates daily in the Ziegelhausen/Schlierbach and Emmertsgrund/Boxberg/Rohrbach Süd service areas from 5.00 am until 1.15 am the following day. From 8.00 pm and at weekends, services also run to S-Bf. Altstadt in the Ziegelhausen/Schlierbach service area and to Königstuhl.

To travel with fips in Mannheim or Heidelberg, you’ll need a valid ticket, such as a season ticket like the Deutschland-Ticket, the D-Ticket Job or the D-Ticket JugendBW. 

You cannot save an existing ticket when booking a fips journey in the myVRN app. In the VRNflexline/fips app, you can select your ticket when booking. 

If you do not have a valid ticket, passengers can purchase a separate ticket in the myVRN app. In the VRNflexline/fips app, if you do not have a ticket, the VRN straight-line fare will be charged when you book your fips journey. 

In all cases, the ticket must be shown before the journey begins.