The price of the Navegante pass, which allows you to travel throughout the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, will remain unchanged in 2026, prolonging a “tariff freezing policy” that has marked mobility in the region since 2019. The decision confirms that those who currently pay 40 euros per month will continue to do so next year, in a context in which public transport is gaining increasing weight in the population’s daily choices.
The same stability applies to Navegante Municipal, whose value remains at 30 euros per month, guaranteeing travel within a single municipality in the metropolitan area.
This maintenance of prices comes at a time when demand indicators reinforce the centrality of the pass as a key instrument of mobility policy in Lisbon.
Frozen prices in a scenario of greater demand
According to the newspaper Expresso, the information was provided by Transportes Metropolitanos de Lisboa, which associates the tariff freeze with a consistent reinforcement of public investment in the sector. The entity emphasizes that this option is not the result of an isolated measure, but of an ongoing strategy with measurable impacts.
According to the same source, the numbers help illustrate this structural change. In 2019, Navegante’s first year, around six million passes were uploaded. In 2024, this value exceeded 11 million, representing an accumulated growth of 75% in five years.
A clear return to public transport
The evolution continued in 2025. The newspaper writes that, by September, nine million passes had already been sold, exceeding the total recorded in the entire year 2019. For TML, these data demonstrate that public transport has once again occupied a central place in the mobility decisions of the region’s population.
The publication adds that this increase is not limited to frequent users. Currently, around 90% of trips made in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area are made with a Navegante pass, including occasional trips, which reveals a profound change in travel habits.
Financing and long-term vision
It states that the sustainability of the model is based on public financing provided by specific programs. Between 2019 and 2023, the passes were supported by the Tariff Reduction Support Program, which has been reinforced since 2024 with the Incentive + TP program.
This framework allows investment to be planned with a multi-year logic, guaranteeing predictability for both operators and users, while protecting prices from annual fluctuations.
Reform that changed the system
TML also recalls that the launch of Navegante represented a structural transformation of the tariff system. Before 2019, there were 7,746 different types of passes, marked by strong territorial fragmentation, which made the integrated use of public transport difficult.
With the simplification of the model and the stabilization of prices, the pass began to function as an aggregating element of the mobility system. The maintenance of values in 2026 thus appears as a continuation of a reform that redefined the way thousands of people travel daily in the Lisbon region.
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