Daily tickets will cost EUR 1, weekly EUR 5, monthly EUR 10 and annual EUR 100. Children under the age of six will ride for free, while those between 7 and 15 will get a 50% discount.
The city council is expected to pick the provider in about a month. Currently, bus transport within the city is provided by Izletnik Celje, a bus transport company, as part of regional public transport service.
Celje has acquired a EUR 922,000 incentive from Eko Sklad, a public fund encouraging sustainable projects, to purchase ten buses running on compressed natural gas (CNG).
The buses will cost a total of EUR 1.1m and the subsidies are limited to 80% of the price of the vehicles.
The city will also overhaul the existing and set up new bus stops. A CNG filling station will also be built.
The decision comes after Celje adopted a traffic strategy last year, with the document encouraging sustainable mobility as a response to the growing traffic in the city.
