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Transport and the shape of the city in Turin

Formula U at €310 a year covers everything inside the city, the airport sits on the rail network at €3.70, and the central ZTL only bites on weekday mornings.

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The thing people get wrongThe ZTL Centrale is a weekday-morning restriction, 07:30 to 10:30, with Saturdays and holidays excluded — narrower than people assume. The pedestrian core and the Valentino zone are separate zones on their own rules, which are not limited to that window, and permits for any of them are applied for online only, with SPID or CIE.

The pass to buy

Formula U is the urban pass: buses, trams, the metro, the STAR1 and STAR2 minibus lines, the Night Buster night services, and second-class Trenitalia travel between stations on urban routes. It costs €310 a year, €38 a month or €12 a week. Under-26s pay €258 for the ordinary annual pass or €25 a month, with ISEE-reduced bands at €208, €178 and €158 below that, and Turin residents over 65 with a valid ISEE below €50,000 pay nothing on the first band, then €118, €155 or €188 a year on the three above it, or €20 a month. Passes load onto a Bip smartcard, which costs €3 unless you buy it at the same time as an annual pass, in which case it is free.

  • Zones only matter once you leave the city. On the integrated Formula area, annual passes run from €413.50 for one zone to €1,135.50 for the whole area, monthlies €43.50 to €119.50 and weeklies €12.10 to €33.70, with those tariffs effective from 1 July 2026.
  • Discounted plurimonthly student passes on the same integrated area run €348.00 for one zone to €956.00 for the whole of it.

Single tickets, and boarding without one

The City 100 ticket is €1.90 bought digitally or €2.00 as chip-on-paper, and runs 100 minutes on urban and suburban lines including one metro journey, revalidated at every change of vehicle. A MultiCity carnet of six is €11.80, a day ticket €3.70 digital or €4.50 on paper, valid from roughly 04:00 to roughly 02:00, and a MultiDaily 7 of seven day tickets usable on non-consecutive days is €21.00. Contactless Tap&Go, on Mastercard and Visa cards, works at the metro gates and on any bus or tram carrying the yellow sticker by the front door. GTT lists no on-board sale at all — tickets come from authorised retailers, the machines in metro stations, the TO Move app or the GTT e-commerce site, so buy before you board.

  • Integrato A at €3.90 gives 100 minutes including the metro and a regional train; Integrato B at €4.60 gives 120 minutes over a wider area.
  • Daily x4, for up to four people travelling together, is €12.00 digital or €14.80 on paper.
  • For visitors: Tour 48h is €7.80 digital or €9.50 on paper, Tour 72h €10.30 or €12.50.

The ZTL, and the permits

The ZTL Centrale operates 07:30 to 10:30 on weekdays only, Saturdays and holidays excluded, inside a perimeter of corso Vittorio Emanuele II, piazza Carlo Felice, corso Re Umberto, corso Matteotti, via Vittorio Amedeo II, corso Palestro, corso Regina, piazza della Repubblica, viale Primo Maggio, viale Partigiani, corso San Maurizio, lungo Po Cadorna, piazza Vittorio Veneto, lungo Po Diaz and corso Cairoli. Vehicles must be Euro 3 or better, or Euro 2 and above if they run on LPG or methane. Two further zones have separate rules that are not confined to that morning window: the ZTL Pedonale, the pedestrian core, and the ZTL Valentino inside the park, so check each zone's own hours on the Comune's ZTL pages before driving into one. Permits are applied for exclusively online on the Città Facile platform with SPID or CIE, and are decided within a maximum of thirty days and on average ten.

  • ZTL Blu A and B permits cost €201.81 per vehicle for two years, or €200.00 for non-profits and public bodies, and €101.81 for hybrids and electrics; a pure electric vehicle pays nothing beyond the €16.00 stamp duty, which is charged per application and per permit.
  • A Borgo Dora residents' permit is €16.81 a year, ZTL Cantiere €101.81, ZTL Verde €201.81, and heavy-vehicle permits €101.81 a year or €51.81 for up to six months. Changing the plate on an existing permit is free, and the permits office is at piazza San Giovanni 5.
  • Older diesels face seasonal anti-smog restrictions across the Po valley winter, and the rules move from year to year. Check the current Regione Piemonte ordinance before you rely on a diesel car here.

Getting to the airport

Torino Aeroporto station is directly opposite the terminal's Arrivals area and is served by three suburban lines — SFM4 towards Ceres and Alba, SFM6 towards Asti and SFM7 towards Cirié and Fossano — all of which run through the city, so check sfmtorino.it for the station nearest you. The run to Porta Susa takes about thirty minutes, trains run seven days a week, and the fare is €3.70. On weekdays the first departure from Porta Susa is 05:01 and the last 21:25; from the airport, first 06:00 and last 22:28. Buses cover the hours the train does not: Arriva Italia runs from Piazza Carlo Felice 39 and the Porta Nuova and Porta Susa stations every 15 to 30 minutes, alternating direct runs with stopping ones and taking 45 to 50 minutes, at €7.50 single and €11.00 return, and Flibco runs every 30 minutes from 03:45 to midnight, taking 30 minutes, from €3.99 booked online or €6.00 bought on the spot.

  • Arriva charges €1 more if you buy on board, and €23.00 for a family of two adults and two under-18s.
  • Flibco serves Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 131, stop 5, and Piazza Carlo Felice 18.

Cycling

The cycle network runs to about 290 kilometres, up roughly 45 per cent since 2019, built as ten radial routes out of the centre into the metropolitan area plus four orbital routes connecting them, and it mixes on-carriageway lanes, segregated tracks, shared paths and mixed-traffic streets. The city's own advice is specific about local hazards: cross tram tracks at a thirty-degree angle, keep a metre clear of parked cars so an opening door cannot reach you, and use lights and reflective gear after dark. Photograph the bike and record its frame number before it is stolen, and report a theft even for a cheap bike, because recoveries do happen.

  • Bikes go on regional trains that carry the cycle symbol, and a folded bike in a bag is treated as luggage rather than as a bike. Both the supplement and the size limits are Trenitalia's and they change, so check the current conditions before you count on taking a bike out of the city.

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