Transport and the shape of the city in Rome

Fares, and the pass to buy

The Abbonamento Annuale Roma is €250 for 365 days of unlimited travel on everything inside Roma Capitale, including the urban sections of the Trenitalia lines, the Roma-Lido Metromare, the Termini-Centocelle line and the Roma-Viterbo. Below it, a single BIT is €1.50 and runs 100 minutes across the network, a 24-hour ticket is €8.50, 48 hours €15.00 and 72 hours €22.00, the weekly CIS is €29.00, and the monthly is €35.00 personal or €53.00 in the impersonal version that two people can share. Note the 24-hour price, because older guides still quote €7. Contactless Tap and Go readers on the gates of every metro station on lines A, B, B1 and C, and on the Metromare and Roma-Viterbo urban sections, charge €1.50 a tap, equal to a BIT and valid 100 minutes including surface transfers.

• At B1 stations with exit gates you have to tap the same card out again.

When the metro runs, and living outside the comune

Metro hours are 05:30 to 23:30 daily, extended to 01:30 on Friday and Saturday nights, with small variations by line and terminus. Night buses fill the gap, and the metro closes for planned weekend engineering work more often than visitors expect. The Rome pass stops at the boundary of the comune: beyond it you need a Metrebus Lazio zonal pass, priced by the zones you cross, with Rome itself counting as Zone A and as two zones. A Lazio pass that includes Zone A is also valid on everything inside Rome, so a commuter buys one pass rather than two.

• Monthly Lazio passes including Zone A: A-B €59.50, A-C €73.50, A-D €91.00, A-F €108.50.

Airports

The Leonardo Express runs non-stop from Fiumicino to Termini in 32 minutes, every 15 minutes, for €14, with first and last departures from Termini at 05:35 and 22:35 and from Fiumicino at 06:23 and 23:23. Trenitalia sells a Minigruppi fare of four tickets for €40 instead of €56 and a ten-ticket carnet for €115, which is worth asking for if you will do the run regularly. The cheaper option is the FL1 regional line, which does not stop at Termini at all: it serves Trastevere in about 27 minutes and Ostiense in about 31, then Tuscolana and Tiburtina at about 48, every 15 minutes on weekdays and every 30 at weekends. It costs €8, and if you live south or east of the centre it beats the Leonardo Express plus a transfer.

• Taxi flat fares are per ride and not per person, and include every supplement: €55 between Fiumicino and anywhere inside the Aurelian Walls, €40 for Ciampino on the same basis. Outside the walls the meter applies instead, which is where the disputes start.

Driving, and the Fascia Verde

The constraint that catches people is not the central ZTL but the Fascia Verde, the low-emission zone covering most of the built-up city. Under the ordinance running from 1 November 2025 to 31 October 2026 it bans, Monday to Saturday and around the clock, petrol, LPG and CNG cars up to Euro 2, diesel cars up to Euro 3, and mopeds and motorcycles at Euro 1 and below. Weekday public holidays are excepted and Sundays are outside the restriction altogether. The perimeter has 51 electronic gates with a further 71 going in, all part of the city's Pollution Charge project, and for now they only monitor traffic rather than issue automatic fines, so assume they will be switched on. The rules are expected to tighten, the tightening has been deferred more than once, and the ordinance in force is the only thing worth checking before you buy or import a car.

• Rome also closes the Fascia Verde to combustion-engine traffic on scheduled domeniche ecologiche, in two bands, 07:30–12:30 and 16:30–20:30, rather than all day. The announced dates are 15 November and 6 December 2026, then 24 January, 21 February and 21 March 2027.
• Inside the Fascia Verde sit separate neighbourhood ZTLs in the Centro Storico, the Tridente, Trastevere, San Lorenzo and Testaccio, camera-enforced on their own schedules. A resident of one of those rioni needs a permit for their own street, and without one the fines arrive by post months later.

Bikes and sharing

Cycling is improving from a small base: Rome has around 330 km of cycle lanes with a stated target of over 500 km by 2027, and the GRAB, a 50 km cycle and pedestrian ring, is still being completed. Counts on the newest corridors show very large increases, but from small numbers. Shared mobility runs to three e-scooter operators, two e-bike operators, Cooltra for mopeds and two car-sharing operators, with Dott's bike fleet capped at 2,500 bikes serving 117 metro stations. Municipal rules approved in August 2026 cap e-scooters at 20 km/h and e-bikes at 25, thin the fleet in the historic centre while expanding it in the outer districts, award operators points for supplying helmets, and make rides free for holders of an annual Metrebus Roma or Lazio pass.